RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns

2014-04-04 Thread Melvin Backus
I can't say for what's been available recently but that sounds like exactly what we were using about 10 years ago in my QA group. Any OS, nothing else. They might have dropped it at some point in between and have revived it, or perhaps renamed it, but I'm sure that's what we were using. --

[NTSysADM] KMS question

2014-04-04 Thread Christopher Bodnar
Can anyone tell me if I can add an Office 2013 KMS key to an existing Windows Server 2008 (not R2) KMS host ? Everything I'm reading specifically states that 2008 R2 is supported as a KMS host for this, but nothing I found so far says that 2008 (not R2) isn't. Thanks Christopher Bodnar

Re: [NTSysADM] KMS question

2014-04-04 Thread Todd Lemmiksoo
No you cannot. If you go to add the key the application will give you an error message. On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Christopher Bodnar christopher_bod...@glic.com wrote: Can anyone tell me if I can add an Office 2013 KMS key to an existing Windows Server 2008 (not R2) KMS host ?

RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns

2014-04-04 Thread Charles Sullivan
Thanks, I'll have to consider that. My Technet subscription is gone forever in December and I have to do something with the 6 computers in my home lab. Charlie Sullivan Sr. Windows Systems Administrator From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of

Re: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host

2014-04-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Update: I've tried several configuration changes with no success: o- The trunk on the HP switch was tagged to the VLAN. I changed the port group configurations to reside in VLAN 0, and then set the trunk on the switched to untagged in the VLAN. This has made no difference - the VMs still cannot

RE: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host

2014-04-04 Thread Mathew Shember
Did you try disabling port security on the switch? -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 9:11 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] No communication

RE: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns

2014-04-04 Thread Free, Bob
I've had that for quite some time as well. Still good for another year at this juncture. Subscription level: MSDN Operating Systems From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Melvin Backus Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 5:35 AM To:

Re: [NTSysADM] Start Menu returns

2014-04-04 Thread Susan Bradley
You can play the VL game. Buy one copy of the thing you want, add four copies of the cheapest thing (I got 4 cals for Forefront a/v) You can do a open license/spread the payments over three years option. So says she who bought a VL license of Technet back in August that is valid for the

Re: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host

2014-04-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Port security is not configured on the switch. Also, I just tried the following: I've changed the NIC teaming on the vSwitch to use each option (MAC Hash, Virtual Port ID and Explicit failover order), and have even moved one of the NICs to standby. I've verified that all of the VMs are using

[NTSysADM] Redirect website

2014-04-04 Thread CSSU NetAdmin
We are a K-12 school district with 4 K-8's. Two use OpenDNS integrated with AD to manage who can get to what site. For example, adults can go to Facebook but students cannot. Because so many sites are providing content on Facebook, we need to figure out a way to allow Facebook for adults but

RE: [NTSysADM] Redirect website

2014-04-04 Thread Kennedy, Jim
Buy a new filter that is better at AD awareness. Iboss is very popular with the K-12's in Ohio for what that is worth. We have an M86 which we are going to ditch, probably for an Iboss. If you really want to go the dns way you certainly could deploy a hosts file to student machines to kill

Re: [NTSysADM] No communication between VMs on an ESXi host

2014-04-04 Thread Kurt Buff
Just to be complete, here's the config on the switch. I've reconfigured it several times, making sure that I made matching changes on the ESXi host. For instance, when I destroyed the trunk and untagged the consituent ports in the VLAN, I made sure that I set the VLAN ID on the port groups to 0,

Re: [NTSysADM] Windows 8.1 update required to be installed

2014-04-04 Thread Andrew S. Baker
LOL. Yes. *ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations Information Security) for the SMB market...* On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote: So, in effect, Windows 8.1 reaches EOL a

RE: [NTSysADM] Redirect website

2014-04-04 Thread Jon Harris
At one of the local high schools they are not only using Facebook but it is all but required. History is my daughter did the local IB school and many if not all the teachers created teacher profiles and told the kids their Facebook account to contact them post school hours with no promise of