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[Keith] Welcome to the Mind Of Root. I'm Keith Albright

[Rich] and I'm Rich Niemeier.

[Steve] and I'm Steve Murawski and this is Episode 107 streaming live on Ustream.tv on Wednesday July 22nd, 2009.

Chit-Chat - What's going on with you?

[Steve]

[Rich]

[Keith]

  • Van hit...going through repairs
  • Budget time. Making my plans. Have you started yours yet Rich? we have same fiscal end I believe.

Housekeeping Items

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  • Adding Printer on Vista Workstation [KEITH]
-I had a problem on Vista 32-bit adding an HP LaserJet? 4300 from a printer share on a server.
-Local Print Spooler service would crash. Thought it was driver related, but I was able to add it another way.
-It crashed when I used my shortcut way to add \\Server then double-click on the printer share
-Worked when I added through Add Printer wizard and found it in the directory.
-Everything I find indicates this problem on 64-bit Vista with DEP the cause. This is 32-bit Vista.
-Link: http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?admit=109447626+1248302773026+28353475&threadId=1349751
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  • Feature creep........ [RICH]
- When will does a desktop become a server?
- This all started because the company has allowed people to thing ti is okay to run business critical apps on a PC.
- So I am setting up a Peer server, and I believe there should be some minimal fault tolerance.
- Does feature creep happen in both directions? I think it does.
- Mirror hard drives on desktop for EU's anyone doing it? I know serious gamers have done this for years, but how soon does it become part of the enterprise desktop?
- is there real value in doing this?
-Link: http://
  • Authoritative Time in Active Directory [KEITH]
-Went to a staff meeting and we noticed none of the clocks had the correct time. Since most rely on PC and PBX, I made sure they were synced and pulled from an authoritative source.
-Windows has the Windows Time service and workstations will sync time with PDC on login, but I needed an external source to keep the DC on time.
-It's a little confusing since they reference NTP as well as Microsofts flavor of NTP, but you want to stick with NTP since the world outside uses it.
-Link: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Configuring-Windows-Time-Service.html
-Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784929.aspx
-Link: http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Managing-Active-Directory-FSMO-Roles.html
-Link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782961.aspx
-Link: http://
- The things I was looking for
- simple Raid 1 hardware disk mirroring
- fast connection to drive, esata
- Has the ability to connect using usb if needed
- ability if hardware fails to still access hard drive and backup
- Drives can be formated to NTFS
-Link: http://go.iomega.com/en-us/products/external-hard-drive-desktop/ultramax-minimax/ultramax-plus/?partner=4760
  • Microsoft Submits Driver Code to Linux Project [KEITH]
-Enable Linux support on Hyper-V
-Necessary to compete with VMWare. Steve and I have gone back and forth on this. Linux in the enterprise is real and MS needs to support it.
-Link: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/072009-microsoft-linux-source-code.html?ts0hb&story=mslinux
  • Crystal Reports Alternatives [KEITH]
-Have a bunch of custom Crystal Reports that hit Great Plains, our CRM system, and other proprietary stuff
-Most have no need to build, just run reports with refreshed data.
-Crystal Reports Viewer 2008 is free from SAP/BO, but is only works against a Crystal Reports Server. The server refreshes the data (or someone with the full version) and saves it into the report. The viewer just uses that cached data.
-Taking a serious look at SQL Reporting Services as a way of delivering reports to users.
-Comparable to Crystal Reports Server, but without the huge cost.
-It's even included with SQL 2008 Express edition if you wanted to tinker
-Can build reports via browser, but I recommend downloading SQL Server Report Builder 2.0
-Link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=9f783224-9871-4eea-b1d5-f3140a253db6#filelist
-Link: Editions of SQL 2008
-Link: Compare what's included with different Editions - See Reporting Services

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Listener Feedback

From listener....Madhu

I found this aricle very useful. I am also intrested to know on how to use the @site Macro in Kixstart. Thanks in advance.

-Madhu

Website Picks

Rich - http://failblog.org/ Just interesting pictures and video ect about things that have not worked, failed.

Steve - http://

Keith - http://corrupted-files.com/Home.html

Last Call

Anyone....Anyone....Buehler.....Buehler....

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