Date: 01/16/08     Keywords: no keywords

Do you have what it takes to blog with Network World? We're looking for a few good bloggers. Contact Site Editor Jeff Caruso today!

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Date: 01/08/08     Keywords: no keywords

(x-posted various)

Has anyone installed Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2007 yet? Did you run into any problems?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/72404.html

Date: 12/21/07     Keywords: no keywords

Does anyone out there have any experience with migrating linked Excel files to a new server? I have to get a client off of a badly failing  SBS 2k machine and onto an entirely new domain ASAP and there are loads of linked Excel spreadsheets in the mix. If anyone can suggest some resources to correct, or at least identify, the links I would be grateful.

Thanks and Happy Holidays!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/71812.html

Date: 12/10/07     Keywords: spam

Foreign users are constantly experiencing problems with the access to the Odnoklassniki. Currently the social network is disabled for the citizens of at least three countries, i.e. Canada, UAE and China. According to the project management, each country has various problems with the access. Somewhere Odnoklassniki does not correspond to moral and ethical fabric, in other places Odnoklassniki are blocked as their DNS servers are suspected in spam sending.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/71677.html

Date: 11/20/07     Keywords: software, web, microsoft

Hello,
I work for a fairly large university, and we're in the market for some new
help desk software. We're currently using a free(?) software package called
SomeHelp based on Microsoft Access. We local IT grunts like it for what it
is, but the big man upstairs does not and our users can't access it.

Here's what we need:
-An interface, preferably web-based, where users can submit support tickets.
Brownie points for user-friendliness.
-An inventory system, where we can track our assets and their maintenance
history, and perhaps some kind of report on them (the boss wasn't specific)
-A product where reliable and dedicated support is available if necessary
-LDAP connectivity is a plus but not a requirement

The product does not necessarily have to be free, though it can't be too
costly. We were recently eyeballing Track-It, but the manager did not like
the $8000 a year price-tag. He does not like Remedy for some reason (didn't
ask why). I got a copy of Bugzilla running locally, but getting it to
behave like helpdesk software is tricky; I might understand it, but our
users definitely will not. Any suggestions? Thank you all.

~Elliot

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Date: 11/17/07     Keywords: no keywords

Is it normal after running SFC /scannow for it to ask for the windows cd or does it ask for that only if it encounters a problem with files? I ask because I think I've run this on XP and it didn't ask for the media before, now it's being run on server '03 but it's asking for media. SP2 has since been installed and the original install media was the original release of '03 server. Will SFC confuse the updated files from the service pack as being foreign?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/71132.html

Date: 11/16/07     Keywords: virus, antivirus

What's the best practice for the placement of a parent antivirus program (in this case, symantec corporate) in a windows server 2003 network?

I have one machine set up to recieve the internet and then act as a firewall sending data out to the rest of the network through a separate NIC. My initial thought was to be to place the antivirus primary server program on this machine (acting as the one that gets updates and distributes patterns to other servers/clients) but I'm concerned about it being in the dmz/server that's exposed to the internet... but then again, isn't that where I would want it, as a first responder to junk coming in from the internet? Or am I just asking for trouble by putting it there?

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Date: 11/12/07     Keywords: google

РљРѕРјСѓ интересно, 14 РЅРѕСЏР±СЂСЏ состоится интервью СЃ главой Google-Р РѕСЃСЃРёСЏ, расскажет что Рє чему нас ждет РІ Рунете. 
Р’РѕРїСЂРѕСЃС‹, как РІРѕРґРёС‚СЃСЏ, приветствуются здесь.  

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/69894.html

Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: no keywords

Some Russian internet-recruitment companies point to the increase in salary expectations of IT-specialists, in several cases up to 50% and up. Most specialists believe there has been no unexpected surge, but the salary expectations went up because of the seasonal factor and the overall increase in prices.

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Date: 10/23/07     Keywords: linux

I just picked up a client where the recently departed Sys Admin had implemented roaming profiles. Point-to-point VPN's connect multiple sites over biz-class cable back to the main site where the server containing the profile is located. Needless to say, log on/off is painful...on the order of ten minutes at times. The profiles also frequently fail to either load or push changes back to the server in all locations, including machines that are on the same LAN as the server. It's just not stable and it's eating too much of my time.

I don't want to fix it. I want to kill it. Dead.

The client's concerns about dumping the roaming profiles are backup and user convenience. One set of users is very mobile and may use two desktops in addition to their laptops on any given day. When it works the roaming profile is great for keeping one consistent environment and one version of a document in a known place. When it doesn't work it eats days of documents on one bite.  Anyway...

Anyone out there have any experience of weaning users off of roaming profiles without running into data loss or "I have eight copies of that report on five machines and two flash drives and it's all your fault"? What sort of issues did you run into with data integrity and user education/resistance?

Next I have to wean them from their Gentoo Linux servers running Postfix & Oracle calendar to Exchange '07. (shudder)

TIA for any thoughts.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/69238.html

Date: 10/18/07     Keywords: software

I have roughly 100GB-200GB of image files that are around 1mb each, which needs to be resized automagically to roughly 1024x768 pixels.

Would anyone have a suggestions on what software I can do this without it crashing.

The program needs to do this recursively on subfolders.

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Date: 10/17/07     Keywords: rss

Портал деловых новостей DP.RU и компания 3Klik.ru запустили совместный новостной пейджер для чтения rss лент. Новая программа DP.RU-NewsReader позволяет получать новости прямо на свой компьютер, не заходя постоянно на сайт.

Новостной пейджер NewsReader – это так называемый «виджет», который позволяет получать заголовки свежих новостей на экран личного компьютера. Уведомления о свежих новостях с выбранных RSS-лент ненавязчиво всплывают в нижнем углу экрана. Нажав на заголовок пользователь переходит на полный текст статьи.

Чудо техники лежит тут  

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/68841.html

Date: 10/16/07     Keywords: no keywords

Does anyone have a graphical tool or command line to check space consumption per shared network drive for a NAS?

Freeware, Treesize Free doesn't work for network drives.

I'm using a buffalo terastation pro 2

I'd like to monitor space consumption for \\terastation1\*

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/68554.html

Date: 10/16/07     Keywords: php, html, security, spam, microsoft

http://www.avast.com/

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64543/description.html

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,8078;order,1;page,1/description.html

http://www.trendsecure.com/portal/en-US/tools/security_tools/hijackthis

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,64566/description.html

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

http://spamato.com/

http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html

http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/

http://www.febooti.com/products/filetweak/members/case/

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/security/autoruns.mspx

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/68104.html

Date: 10/11/07     Keywords: web

 Hi, 

I'm trying to figure out a way to make the calendar, as it appears in a webpart, smaller without ending up with scroll bars.  I'd love to know if it can be shrunk, or if the sat/sun columns could be removed, anything really, because I'd like to have it not take up a huge chunk of my page.

Any help would be great.

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Date: 10/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

ive looked at a lot of articles and methods to do with subnetting over the last few days by way of refreshing my mind and have got it pretty well sussed out. amazing how quickly you forget these things! anyway...

to calculate the number of host, the equation is 2^Y-2 where y in the number of host bits

to calculate the number of subnets, the equation is 2^X-2 where x is the number of network bits.

trouble is that some articles say 2^x-2 and some say 2^X to calculate the number of network bits.

i cannot for the life of me find out which is supposed to be correct, as each approach makes NO reference to the other approach.

i was always taught 2^x-2

any opinions, thoughts?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/67803.html

Date: 10/09/07     Keywords: no keywords

Hey all-

I'm considering putting some KVM equipment into next years' budget, and am really interested in KVM over IP.

What systems have you used? Likes, dislikes? Recommendations, avoidances?

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/67471.html

Date: 10/02/07     Keywords: microsoft

I'm looking for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, with product key. Anybody got a copy gathering dust somewhere?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/67250.html

Date: 10/02/07     Keywords: php

HI all,

is it possible to use a phpBB board (or an equivalent board) with Sharepoint 2007 instead of the boards that come with Sharepoint? (as I find them highly useless and inconvenient after using phpBB and vBulletin)

Thanks,
~Jess

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/67010.html

Date: 09/25/07     Keywords: software, google

We have a new, Vista-running development machine here, and I'm having some serious firewall issues with it.

Before I join the machine to a domain, I'm able to turn the firewall on and off with a local admin account. Once I join a domain, I am unable to turn it on, to the tune of "Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall service." However, even after I leave the domain (and am only in a work group), I am unable to start the service. This is a clean install of Vista Business.

Is this a "that's how Vista works" issue, or is there something more here? I've Googled my greasy little heart out on this.

Thanks for reading.

**EDIT - I need the firewall service to be running for the remote admin software that's on the machine.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/66482.html