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God, sounds like you work in IT Hell.
Coming back to this, Any good tutorials without the needlessly long microsoft filler?
You can specify this is AD too.
If this were fallout new vegas I'd have murdered the guy Helios 1 style. In fact this exact scenario plays out in the game.
I get the "YOu don't have permissions" box, which prompts the UAC box, which works for the top level but forces skips on the lower levels. Windows really needs to learn how to sudo.
Is there a way to launch an administrator version of explorer or something, or am I stuck doing this through powershell?
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Parameters
/profile : Loads the user's profile. /profile is the default.
/no profile : Specifies that the user's profile is not to be loaded. This allows the application to load more quickly, but it can also cause a malfunction in some applications.
/env : Specifies that the current network environment be used instead of the user's local environment.
/netonly : Indicates that the user information specified is for remote access only.
/smartcard : Indicates whether the credentials are to be supplied from a smartcard.
/showtrustlevels : Lists the /trustlevel options.
/trustlevel : Specifies the level of authorization at which the application is to run. Use /showtrustlevels to see the trust levels available.
/user: UserAccountName : Specifies the name of the user account under which to run the program. The user account format should be user@domain or Domain\User.
program : Specifies the program or command to run using the account specified in /user.
/? : Displays help at the command prompt.
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So I'd just be running as myself, and the only trust level I am seeing is Basic User which isn't getting me anywhere.
I'm still stuck with the same problem, Explorer complains about permissions, does the UAC thing then forces skipping instead of letting the Admin activation propogate to the children of the directory.
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I'm also interested in this. and any good guides to get into implementing hyper-v on 2008 r2 to virtualize a classroom workstation environment.
I've been reading this and this pdf looks promising
is this even a sane option? are there better virtualization options that are ... cheap/free? we have no budget and we already have volume licenses for r2, standard only though...
Paths of Exiled - (waffenheimer) SC -> minibean/fatslord/MuffinPuffs/ToomanyButtons
But I will be moving in 2012 (barring apocalypse), quite randomly, depending on the missus' grad internship posting, and I'm wondering if I shouldn't cement my real world experience with some of them there certs and or degrees. My experience looks lovely on a resume, but I don't have any real education to back it up. I'm great in a room and though I am fairly technical, if I had to come down on people vs. robots, I'm people.
Have any of you had an experience with certs, a la A+ and whatnot?
Can you take ownership of the files and alter the permissions?
Why not just look for an IT job now and see if you can do it without the certs? You seem to have plenty of experience.
In the mean time, ask for a raise.
Virtual Box is legit. I use it for WinXP for a few of our applications (FUCK YOU NORSTAR) that don't want to run in Win 7.
I like how this thread is 50% bitch and moan, 50% useful q/a.
And on that note, how do y'all like printers? My company is notoriously bad at enforcing any kind of adopted standard with printers, and as a result we have ancient HPs all the way up to these weird-ass Konica-Minolta Imagistics ones. There are fewer things that mystify me as quickly as a bizarre printer problem. Is it a networking issue? A mechanical one? A user error? Mix of the three? Who knows!
At least the Xerox Phaser 8560 was easy; no actual plastic box, just wax blocks wrapped in paper that you drop into a hopper on top. Didn't even have to interrupt a run to put a new one in.
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Yeah, please, lets order a $50 card because your printer can't handle POSTSCRIPT without it.
"But I need a printer in my office for the off-chance that I might print something confidential which I usually do once a year."
"But I need a printer in my cubicle because I don't know how to load labels in the networked printer."
"But I need a printer in my cubicle because I print so much (10 pages about once a day) that I don't want to tie-up the networked printer."
"But I need a printer in my office because the networked printer is thirty feet away."
Check out monster/dice and see what is out there and what you need for it. Certs can get you in the door at times but it depends on who is the gatekeeper and what they are looking for.
I would contend that VMWare is still the best virtualisation option.
Both ESXi (barebones hypervisor version) and Server (used to be GSX, runs as a service on a Windows or RHEL box) are free and easy to use. If you want to do fancy smancy things that Hyper-V does then go with that, obviously. But everything I have heard is "Hyper-V will be really good after about 2 more years of sensible development".
We use both ESXi and Server, but I'm currently in the midst of a project to move to ESXi only. It's a bit of a pain because the server with VMWare Server also does a few other things.
The only trap with ESXi is that it has limited support for different NIC chipsets out of the gates. There are however ways of hacking them in, which I spent some rather frustrating time figuring out a few months ago, but have never looked back.
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The 4 Universal Reasons!!!
I got passed this problem when I showed the head of finance the bill for all the toners for all the "individual" printers people needed.
Multiple Windows Explorer windows all launch under the same process (which means it's under the same credentials).
There are a few ways around this. The easiest one is to launch Internet Explorer with runas. IE will launch under the specified credentials. Then you can point IE to the local folder on the hard drive and it will act like Windows Explorer.
If the computer is in a different location, you might get some leverage just logging in to your local machine (or a server) under the domain admin account, and just pointing Windows Explorer to \\computername\c$. That's assuming the c$ share hasn't been turned off in group policy, which some organizations do for security.
You can also hack the registry to change this behavior but I don't like doing that.
Savin too.
That one threw me for a loop once when I installed the PS drivers, send the copier a test page, and instead of erroring out nicely it decided to do the old-school conniption fit of spitting out 50 pages of gobbledygook.
This is cunning and brilliant. Thanks Feral. I'll give this a burl.
EDIT: Though further deliberation makes me sceptical of whether it will work. Powershell is working for me, which I don't really mind, but for the lack of progress information.
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Progress bars in the Windows GUI are stupidly inaccurate anyway.
You could just launch a second powershell process, do a DIR /S and look at the total number of files and total filesize to get a sense of how fast the copy process is going.
Current job is using a Ricoh. Awful.
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Every piece of technology has improved where with printers we're constantly moving back in time.
I've found that it works with most varieties of Intel and Broadcom chipsets (ex., E1000, NetXtreme I/II, etc.). We use all Dell PowerEdge boxes (last gen stuff, mostly), and have no complaints running it on those. We have an Essentials license for ESXi which gives us three hosts running together with vCenter, which is certainly nice for central administration of the boxes, but not really required for so few. The setup mostly runs our internal stuff and a few databases.
The basic license for ESXi is completely free though, and is certainly enough to get work done on. So really, all you have to lose is a few hours experimenting with an install of it.
We got a new HP network printer several months ago (P3015) that has the stupidest driver. I haven't been able to find a bare bones print functionality only driver, which is annoying. On some computers I was getting severe performance problems when I opened the printer properties sheet. I got out Process Explorer and watched, as when I opened it, it spawned a rundll32.exe process, which would peg the CPU at about 80%, then kill it a second later. Then start it back up. And kill it again. And it would do this endlessly until about 5 seconds after I close the properties sheet. So stupid.
Apple's Xserve is dead.
Of course now we use HP's MFPs for scanning duty, and surprisingly we had way fewer problems with them right up until we started converting to Exchange.
HP Universal Printing PCL 6? Or 5? It's super generic and doesn't work all that well with older models, maybe give that a shot.
LMAO, Why in the world did you go that route in the first place?
Seriously?
We have somewhere in the neighborhood of 1000 Macs, at least two thirds of those are managed with mcx/OS X Server software. We've been using XServes, XServe RAID's and there's even a couple of XSan setups in the company. Hell, most of the departments in the company are either Mac based or 100% Macs. Not to mention that the hardware has been rock solid.
Also not HIPAA-compliant. They could have been sued if a patient found out.
I'm not a fan of the universal print driver. It works, but it seems slow and clunky, and it is glitchy with some of the not-terribly-old models I've tried it on.
Yeah, HP printers were fucking awesome back in the day of the Laserjet 4000 series. There are still a ton of those in active use. I'm pretty sure that after the nuclear apocalypse all the cockroaches will still be using Laserjet 4000s.
But each successive generation gets worse and worse. Don't even get me started on their all-in-ones. So much burning hatred.
The best new printers I've dealt with recently have been Brothers, BTW.