I will never understand why people pay us more to keep old dinosaur PCs working than it would cost to buy new.
The one nice benefit of this company. If a computer is 1 day out of warranty and anything goes wrong it gets replaced right then. We also never do virus/spyware removal. You get a virus, send it in for a re-image cause it's your own damn fault and you get to survive without a computer for a few days
I have a re-image rule of 15 minutes. If I can't get rid of it in 15 minutes, I'm taking the 45 minutes to reimage it.
I miss my old job at the business school. Anything, anything at all, goes wrong with the software on a classroom machine? Network re-image it in place. Took 5-10 minutes thanks to gigabit throughout the school and dedicated image servers. We once did an entire classroom of fifty machines in under an hour.
Also, school policy on students saving shit to local drives? "They should know better. Nuke it."
When an adult writes an email to me regarding a support issue it should be a semi-professional piece of correspondence. The following does not count as "semi-professional" in my world:
"I tried to print my appropriations report. The printers (sic) displaying a message (not "ready"), and an icon poped (sic) up in my screen and said the document failed too (sic) print. PLEASE ADVISE??????"
The mis-spellings don't bug me too much, but the multi-question-mark punctuation and all-caps make want to respond that my advice to her is to revisit 3rd grade grammar.
Caps-lock will not make me respond more quickly. Neither will your expression of, what I assume to be, complete bewilderment in the form of multiple question-marks.
<sigh> And I'm off work today. Ha!
but what if they also request a read receipt and mark it as high priority
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I'm pretty sure that'd result in a paddlin'. I also love "URGENT" and "HELP!" as the subject of these types of emails.
I actually turned off receipts because there is no reason for you to see when I read your email. I don't want you to become reliant on email as a form of telling me a problem because I may not check it enough to be "urgent."
I actually only open my email 3 times a day. Once in the morning, once at lunch, and once in the evening. If you want to talk to me, or discuss a problem, call me or come to my office. That way I know it's more than "this annoys me, fix it." Otherwise it just goes on the backburner until I have the time to fix things like you not being able to figure out how to sort your folder by date or name, or cascading icons because you have narcolepsy and a twitch and dragged an icon way outside the visible range of the folder somehow. Or because the fax lines are busy with consecutive faxes your urgent document has to wait its turn in the queue.
This! A thousand times this. Open a helpdesk ticket and I'll get right on it. The worst is when you tell people this and then they email you for the address to helpdesk. for the third time in two months.
This! A thousand times this. Open a helpdesk ticket and I'll get right on it. The worst is when you tell people this and then they email you for the address to helpdesk. for the third time in two months.
Look. [email protected] is entirely too difficult to remember. And I can't add it to my address-book because it's not a real person. What do you basement-dwellers not get about this?
:x
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edited February 2011
Oh, man am I jealous of you cats who get to admin networks with enough uniformity and control to be able to just re-image something like that.
We just took over a network of about 50 machines from a guy who had no idea what he was doing. So we keep finding little surprises like the new workstations coming in and needing to be deployed ASAP and lol! no folder redirection.
It was a mess, we didn't know the machines were coming in until the last second, and I ended up spending my night transferring files and settings on each individual workstation.
Oh those system codes are bullshit. Unless you're a programmer, who the fuck knows what they mean?
You can usually Google them and find out what they mean. Can be really helpful, sometimes.
Anyone have any troubleshooting tips for a printer problem with XP Mode? Every time I try to print to a particular printer from a particular program (Time Matters 8, if it matters) it crashes; it doesn't crash if I print to the printer from a different program, and it doesn't crash if I print to a different printer from that program. It's running on XP Mode on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. All of the 32-bit XP machines we have in the office print to that printer just fine using that program. I've tried updating both the software and the printer drivers (the printer is a Sharp AR-M700N, if that matters).
I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with XP Mode or Windows 7, so it's possible I'm missing something obvious. Any help?
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You can usually Google them and find out what they mean. Can be really helpful, sometimes.
Anyone have any troubleshooting tips for a printer problem with XP Mode? Every time I try to print to a particular printer from a particular program (Time Matters 8, if it matters) it crashes; it doesn't crash if I print to the printer from a different program, and it doesn't crash if I print to a different printer from that program. It's running on XP Mode on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. All of the 32-bit XP machines we have in the office print to that printer just fine using that program. I've tried updating both the software and the printer drivers (the printer is a Sharp AR-M700N, if that matters).
I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with XP Mode or Windows 7, so it's possible I'm missing something obvious. Any help?
Sounds like it's trying to send 32-bit printer commands to a 64-bit driver and said driver isn't dealing with that properly. Can you see if you can install the 32-bit driver for the printer on the server where it's shared? And/or the machine that's having the problem. (printer properties, sharing tab, additional drivers)
Oh Lord I knew this was going to happen eventually.
My company has relied on Blackberry devices for years, and apparently someone let the cat out of the bag that iPhones A) exist and can be used for enterprise purposes. So the first rumblings of getting an iPhone enterprise server have been making the rounds and an "exploratory committee" has been formed to "investigate" small-scale adoption so the execs can have a new toy. Which is another way of saying "this is going to happen and in a year all 1,200 Blackberry devices will be decommed and we'll spend another kajillion bucks to replace them all with iPhones."
Oh Lord I knew this was going to happen eventually.
My company has relied on Blackberry devices for years, and apparently someone let the cat out of the bag that iPhones A) exist and can be used for enterprise purposes. So the first rumblings of getting an iPhone enterprise server have been making the rounds and an "exploratory committee" has been formed to "investigate" small-scale adoption so the execs can have a new toy. Which is another way of saying "this is going to happen and in a year all 1,200 Blackberry devices will be decommed and we'll spend another kajillion bucks to replace them all with iPhones."
Time to saddle up for another project!
Looking to deploy Good servers?
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"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
You can usually Google them and find out what they mean. Can be really helpful, sometimes.
Anyone have any troubleshooting tips for a printer problem with XP Mode? Every time I try to print to a particular printer from a particular program (Time Matters 8, if it matters) it crashes; it doesn't crash if I print to the printer from a different program, and it doesn't crash if I print to a different printer from that program. It's running on XP Mode on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. All of the 32-bit XP machines we have in the office print to that printer just fine using that program. I've tried updating both the software and the printer drivers (the printer is a Sharp AR-M700N, if that matters).
I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with XP Mode or Windows 7, so it's possible I'm missing something obvious. Any help?
Sounds like it's trying to send 32-bit printer commands to a 64-bit driver and said driver isn't dealing with that properly. Can you see if you can install the 32-bit driver for the printer on the server where it's shared? And/or the machine that's having the problem. (printer properties, sharing tab, additional drivers)
The print server should have both the 32-bit and 64-bit drivers; given that we have both 32-bit and 64-bit computers attached to it and working, I can't imagine that that isn't the case.
I also specifically went online within XP-mode and downloaded updated 32-bit XP drivers; still didn't fix the problem. Of course, I assumed that since XP Mode is 32-bit, it needed a 32-bit driver; do I need to load the 64-bit driver onto XP Mode instead of the 32-bit? I hadn't even considered that, but it seems like it would just fuck shit up even more.
And again, it's worth noting that WordPad within XP Mode prints just fine, and everything outside of XP mode works fine; it's just this one particular program that crashes every time I try to use it.
Oh Lord I knew this was going to happen eventually.
My company has relied on Blackberry devices for years, and apparently someone let the cat out of the bag that iPhones A) exist and can be used for enterprise purposes. So the first rumblings of getting an iPhone enterprise server have been making the rounds and an "exploratory committee" has been formed to "investigate" small-scale adoption so the execs can have a new toy. Which is another way of saying "this is going to happen and in a year all 1,200 Blackberry devices will be decommed and we'll spend another kajillion bucks to replace them all with iPhones."
Time to saddle up for another project!
Do iPhones actually need Enterprise servers?
I mean, we have both Blackberries and iPhones at my office (which is way, way smaller than yours, admittedly), and Blackberries without BES are a fucking abortion to set up in Outlook. iPhones, on the other hand, are super-easy to set up without an Enterprise server; they integrate with Outlook very simply. Same goes for Androids.
Oh Lord I knew this was going to happen eventually.
My company has relied on Blackberry devices for years, and apparently someone let the cat out of the bag that iPhones A) exist and can be used for enterprise purposes. So the first rumblings of getting an iPhone enterprise server have been making the rounds and an "exploratory committee" has been formed to "investigate" small-scale adoption so the execs can have a new toy. Which is another way of saying "this is going to happen and in a year all 1,200 Blackberry devices will be decommed and we'll spend another kajillion bucks to replace them all with iPhones."
Time to saddle up for another project!
Do iPhones actually need Enterprise servers?
I mean, we have both Blackberries and iPhones at my office (which is way, way smaller than yours, admittedly), and Blackberries without BES are a fucking abortion to set up in Outlook. iPhones, on the other hand, are super-easy to set up without an Enterprise server; they integrate with Outlook very simply. Same goes for Androids.
Some companies like to actually lock down the devices for compliance reasons, in which case you'd be looking at most likely a Good server.
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LoL Tribunal:
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
That's exactly the reason. I work for a financial institution, and we need to be able to remotely disable/wipe lost devices, monitor email and web traffic, etc.
You can usually Google them and find out what they mean. Can be really helpful, sometimes.
Anyone have any troubleshooting tips for a printer problem with XP Mode? Every time I try to print to a particular printer from a particular program (Time Matters 8, if it matters) it crashes; it doesn't crash if I print to the printer from a different program, and it doesn't crash if I print to a different printer from that program. It's running on XP Mode on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. All of the 32-bit XP machines we have in the office print to that printer just fine using that program. I've tried updating both the software and the printer drivers (the printer is a Sharp AR-M700N, if that matters).
I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with XP Mode or Windows 7, so it's possible I'm missing something obvious. Any help?
Sounds like it's trying to send 32-bit printer commands to a 64-bit driver and said driver isn't dealing with that properly. Can you see if you can install the 32-bit driver for the printer on the server where it's shared? And/or the machine that's having the problem. (printer properties, sharing tab, additional drivers)
The print server should have both the 32-bit and 64-bit drivers; given that we have both 32-bit and 64-bit computers attached to it and working, I can't imagine that that isn't the case.
I also specifically went online within XP-mode and downloaded updated 32-bit XP drivers; still didn't fix the problem. Of course, I assumed that since XP Mode is 32-bit, it needed a 32-bit driver; do I need to load the 64-bit driver onto XP Mode instead of the 32-bit? I hadn't even considered that, but it seems like it would just fuck shit up even more.
And again, it's worth noting that WordPad within XP Mode prints just fine, and everything outside of XP mode works fine; it's just this one particular program that crashes every time I try to use it.
You shold encourage your client to upgrade ther Time Matters. The current version is 10.0 (about to move to 11.0). Version 8.0 does not support 64 bit envirnments. Even though running in XP Mode, the base environment is still x64. What's more is that additional 3rd party program integration will not work with current versions of Outlook, Word, etc. If UAC is turned on, you can try turning it off or running TM as Administrator, but no guarantees. Comming current on the software is the best bet. Hope this helps.
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edited February 2011
I'd wade through an Amazon swamp and content with anacondas and hostile natives to avoid having to admin a BES server.
Really? My experience has been pretty benign. We had some hiccups throwing the latest patches on, but ever since it's been super stable.
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edited February 2011
To be fair, we inherited this from a pretty incompetent IT guy. Recently, it stopped syncing with Active Directory and when we got ahold of the client's previous IT provider he said "yeah, it just does that sometimes" and directed us to do a repair installation or something.
You shold encourage your client to upgrade ther Time Matters. The current version is 10.0 (about to move to 11.0). Version 8.0 does not support 64 bit envirnments. Even though running in XP Mode, the base environment is still x64. What's more is that additional 3rd party program integration will not work with current versions of Outlook, Word, etc. If UAC is turned on, you can try turning it off or running TM as Administrator, but no guarantees. Comming current on the software is the best bet. Hope this helps.
My client is a small firm that's been using Time Matters for several years. They were going to upgrade when 11.0 came out, but since LexisNexis bought the company, they were basically told "either shell out for the past 2 years of annual maintenance you never used and be locked into a mandatory annual maintenance plan from now on or fuck off." That, plus the fact that it looks like LexisNexis hasn't updated the website in years and there are very strong rumors they're going to be phasing it out (which wouldn't surprise me in the least) would mean that the firm could shell out $15,000 (a lot of money for a small firm) then be left in the lurch the next week when LexisNexis announces "sorry, we're done, fuck off current users." So, I've strongly recommended that they just phase out use of the software entirely (which they're working on, but they're trying to get the last few months/years of use out of it they can for now).
If they had an AMP already it would be one thing, but I wouldn't in a million years tell them to sign up for that shit (especially from a company like LexisNexis, which is infamous for jacking up their rates arbitrarily) now with those back fees just to get fucked.
And even trying to run the software as an admin, I can't get it to install in Windows 7 proper. Which is why I run it in XP Mode.
And even trying to run the software as an admin, I can't get it to install in Windows 7 proper. Which is why I run it in XP Mode.
I've had some luck getting apps that "won't work" with or won't install on Windows7 by running the installer executable in "compatibility mode" (XP w/SP2 is the most likely to work) and also running it as administrator. Then once the app installs, running the main executable in "compatibility mode" (XP w/SP2) and running it as administrator.
And even trying to run the software as an admin, I can't get it to install in Windows 7 proper. Which is why I run it in XP Mode.
I've had some luck getting apps that "won't work" with or won't install on Windows7 by running the installer executable in "compatibility mode" (XP w/SP2 is the most likely to work) and also running it as administrator. Then once the app installs, running the main executable in "compatibility mode" (XP w/SP2) and running it as administrator.
Yeah, been there, done that. It doesn't even tell me why it won't install, it just says "install failed." I've even tried it in compatibility mode for older versions of Windows than XP, just in case; no go. Good idea, though.
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Oh those system codes are bullshit. Unless you're a programmer, who the fuck knows what they mean?
You can usually Google them and find out what they mean. Can be really helpful, sometimes.
Valid, unless of course you only have the one computer, and it's BSOD time, all the time. Then the codes are useless. And that was me, up until I got a wireless n router about 12 months ago so my PS3 could also use my broadbands.
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edited February 2011
So, Microsoft emailed me to let me know that my public folders issue has nothing to fobwith me and that function is in fact currently broken. Happily in update rollup 3 it will be fixes. Unhappily it isn't out yet.
So, Microsoft emailed me to let me know that my public folders issue has nothing to fobwith me and that function is in fact currently broken. Happily in update rollup 3 it will be fixes. Unhappily it isn't out yet.
If you're talking about Outlook public folders, you should know that Microsoft is trying to phase out that function entirely.
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WOOHOOO i finally get to rebuild our TrendMicro setup. I can't wait this will be such a fun project!
Just a server reinstall? I've done a few of these, it's not so bad. The new install should automatically pick up the clients and update their policies.
Trend has caused a few problems that were cured by a reinstallation, but overall I think it's a solid piece of software.
So, Microsoft emailed me to let me know that my public folders issue has nothing to fobwith me and that function is in fact currently broken. Happily in update rollup 3 it will be fixes. Unhappily it isn't out yet.
If you're talking about Outlook public folders, you should know that Microsoft is trying to phase out that function entirely.
And I agree with them. I hate public folders. Sharepoint is so much better (even if its bad, its still better!)
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Apothe0sisHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality?Registered Userregular
So, Microsoft emailed me to let me know that my public folders issue has nothing to fobwith me and that function is in fact currently broken. Happily in update rollup 3 it will be fixes. Unhappily it isn't out yet.
If you're talking about Outlook public folders, you should know that Microsoft is trying to phase out that function entirely.
Yeah, I do know this. And I look forward to it. Sort of. Public Folders are a nightmare, but a relatively simple one. Sharepoint is a nightmare in that it is huge and nasty and a spaghetti works that requires more infrastructure.
Moving to Sharepoint is something I have been sort of pushing for. But at the moment, Public Folders still lives and they will fix it.
And even trying to run the software as an admin, I can't get it to install in Windows 7 proper. Which is why I run it in XP Mode.
I've had some luck getting apps that "won't work" with or won't install on Windows7 by running the installer executable in "compatibility mode" (XP w/SP2 is the most likely to work) and also running it as administrator. Then once the app installs, running the main executable in "compatibility mode" (XP w/SP2) and running it as administrator.
Yeah, been there, done that. It doesn't even tell me why it won't install, it just says "install failed." I've even tried it in compatibility mode for older versions of Windows than XP, just in case; no go. Good idea, though.
Chances are the dev was a crackhead and specifically targeted "Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows 2000,Windows XP." Instead of > Windows 95.
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WOOHOOO i finally get to rebuild our TrendMicro setup. I can't wait this will be such a fun project!
Just a server reinstall? I've done a few of these, it's not so bad. The new install should automatically pick up the clients and update their policies.
Trend has caused a few problems that were cured by a reinstallation, but overall I think it's a solid piece of software.
The software hasn't been running properly since i got there. That was about 4yrs ago. The past employees that worked with the product really never maintained it or understood it. I know it will be easy, when i said fun what i meant was relaxing couple of days for me.
Yeah that seems a bit long. Though you should be able to use them while they're initializing, it'll just finish and then do it's parity/mirroring afterwords, or so I've been told.
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edited February 2011
Hmm. I tried to go ahead with the SBS install yesterday, and it didn't recognize any HDDs. The installer asked for drivers, which I pulled from Dell's site with no results. :?
Did they change it so you don't need a floppy anymore for those drivers?
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edited February 2011
These servers don't come with floppy drives. I haven't had to load drivers for them in the past, at least not with '08. The Dell rep I spoke with says that these controllers just take that long to initialize, and recommended that I let one array finish, install Windows, then kick off the other array to run while I'm configuring the OS.
Me: "Is this how all your RAID controllers work now? I could swear that in the past I have been able to begin installing Windows while the primary array was building."
Agent: "yeah , this controller is the next generation to replace the SAS 5ir/6ir, those can only do a RAID 0 and a RAID 1, i think you previously were working with a PERC 5/6i that initializes in moments and you can work"
Agent: "also you must build the array and initiliase before installing windows, on all the controllers."
Me: "Does it seem right that it has taken so long to initialize this array? Should we expect that kind of delay on future servers with this series of RAID controller?"
Me: "I started this at 4 PM yesterday and it is now 10 AM"
Agent: "it doesn't seem right no, which is why i wanted to cancel both of them and start over, but it may put us in the same position,
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edited February 2011
Hmm. We're scheduled to deploy this server tomorrow. The client requested it because their old IT guy set up their current server, which performs abysmally poorly. We discovered that this was due to using a motherboard that's unsupported in any Windows Server OS (looking at <5Mb/sec on disk copy operations).
ShadowProtect has an option for Hardware-Independent Restore, in which you do a backup that includes drivers for your new machine and restore it to the new box. This has the potential to save us a goodly amount of hours. The rub is that the current box has an OEM license, and we already purchased a volume license for the new one.
You are a patient man tim. I would've given up a long time ago.
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edited February 2011
Given up? Shoot, this is my job. And we're growing like crazy, too. I started in July as the Jr. Tech, and since then I've participated in 2 server deployments.
They've since fired the guy I was hired to help, as well as his replacement, so it's me and the owner. We have 3 more servers going out between now and March.
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I miss my old job at the business school. Anything, anything at all, goes wrong with the software on a classroom machine? Network re-image it in place. Took 5-10 minutes thanks to gigabit throughout the school and dedicated image servers. We once did an entire classroom of fifty machines in under an hour.
Also, school policy on students saving shit to local drives? "They should know better. Nuke it."
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This! A thousand times this. Open a helpdesk ticket and I'll get right on it. The worst is when you tell people this and then they email you for the address to helpdesk. for the third time in two months.
:x
We just took over a network of about 50 machines from a guy who had no idea what he was doing. So we keep finding little surprises like the new workstations coming in and needing to be deployed ASAP and lol! no folder redirection.
It was a mess, we didn't know the machines were coming in until the last second, and I ended up spending my night transferring files and settings on each individual workstation.
Anyone have any troubleshooting tips for a printer problem with XP Mode? Every time I try to print to a particular printer from a particular program (Time Matters 8, if it matters) it crashes; it doesn't crash if I print to the printer from a different program, and it doesn't crash if I print to a different printer from that program. It's running on XP Mode on a Windows 7 64-bit machine. All of the 32-bit XP machines we have in the office print to that printer just fine using that program. I've tried updating both the software and the printer drivers (the printer is a Sharp AR-M700N, if that matters).
I don't have a tremendous amount of experience with XP Mode or Windows 7, so it's possible I'm missing something obvious. Any help?
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My company has relied on Blackberry devices for years, and apparently someone let the cat out of the bag that iPhones A) exist and
Time to saddle up for another project!
Looking to deploy Good servers?
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
I also specifically went online within XP-mode and downloaded updated 32-bit XP drivers; still didn't fix the problem. Of course, I assumed that since XP Mode is 32-bit, it needed a 32-bit driver; do I need to load the 64-bit driver onto XP Mode instead of the 32-bit? I hadn't even considered that, but it seems like it would just fuck shit up even more.
And again, it's worth noting that WordPad within XP Mode prints just fine, and everything outside of XP mode works fine; it's just this one particular program that crashes every time I try to use it.
I mean, we have both Blackberries and iPhones at my office (which is way, way smaller than yours, admittedly), and Blackberries without BES are a fucking abortion to set up in Outlook. iPhones, on the other hand, are super-easy to set up without an Enterprise server; they integrate with Outlook very simply. Same goes for Androids.
Some companies like to actually lock down the devices for compliance reasons, in which case you'd be looking at most likely a Good server.
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
You shold encourage your client to upgrade ther Time Matters. The current version is 10.0 (about to move to 11.0). Version 8.0 does not support 64 bit envirnments. Even though running in XP Mode, the base environment is still x64. What's more is that additional 3rd party program integration will not work with current versions of Outlook, Word, etc. If UAC is turned on, you can try turning it off or running TM as Administrator, but no guarantees. Comming current on the software is the best bet. Hope this helps.
If they had an AMP already it would be one thing, but I wouldn't in a million years tell them to sign up for that shit (especially from a company like LexisNexis, which is infamous for jacking up their rates arbitrarily) now with those back fees just to get fucked.
And even trying to run the software as an admin, I can't get it to install in Windows 7 proper. Which is why I run it in XP Mode.
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I've had some luck getting apps that "won't work" with or won't install on Windows7 by running the installer executable in "compatibility mode" (XP w/SP2 is the most likely to work) and also running it as administrator. Then once the app installs, running the main executable in "compatibility mode" (XP w/SP2) and running it as administrator.
Valid, unless of course you only have the one computer, and it's BSOD time, all the time. Then the codes are useless. And that was me, up until I got a wireless n router about 12 months ago so my PS3 could also use my broadbands.
Just a server reinstall? I've done a few of these, it's not so bad. The new install should automatically pick up the clients and update their policies.
Trend has caused a few problems that were cured by a reinstallation, but overall I think it's a solid piece of software.
And I agree with them. I hate public folders. Sharepoint is so much better (even if its bad, its still better!)
"Was cursing, in broken english at his team, and at our team. made fun of dead family members and mentioned he had sex with a dog."
"Hope he dies tbh but a ban would do."
Yeah, I do know this. And I look forward to it. Sort of. Public Folders are a nightmare, but a relatively simple one. Sharepoint is a nightmare in that it is huge and nasty and a spaghetti works that requires more infrastructure.
Moving to Sharepoint is something I have been sort of pushing for. But at the moment, Public Folders still lives and they will fix it.
Chances are the dev was a crackhead and specifically targeted "Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows 2000,Windows XP." Instead of > Windows 95.
The software hasn't been running properly since i got there. That was about 4yrs ago. The past employees that worked with the product really never maintained it or understood it. I know it will be easy, when i said fun what i meant was relaxing couple of days for me.
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That seems like an excessive amount of time to build 6 HDDs into a RAID 1 and a RAID 10.
ShadowProtect has an option for Hardware-Independent Restore, in which you do a backup that includes drivers for your new machine and restore it to the new box. This has the potential to save us a goodly amount of hours. The rub is that the current box has an OEM license, and we already purchased a volume license for the new one.
They've since fired the guy I was hired to help, as well as his replacement, so it's me and the owner. We have 3 more servers going out between now and March.
I am going to ask for so much raise come April.