[NTSysADM] ORBI wifi

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
real world use, So a friend of mine (total non techy ) got the Orbi set http://www.techradar.com/reviews/netgear-orbi much to my amazement, he managed to get the router and 2 satellites setup and covered his 3600 sq foot 3 story house covered.

RE: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread James Rankin
That’s fair enough, but I’m sure there must be some sort of Word-native function that can accommodate this and remove the requirement for the Search and Replace? From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Erik Goldoff Sent: 27 March 2017 15:03 To:

Re: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
Did you check the link to the video i posted? Jean-Paul Natola From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of James Rankin Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 10:13:22 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject:

[NTSysADM] Re: Limit Remote DC to selectively replicate certain OUs?

2017-03-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Right, How would it handle a group that _is_ replicated which contains a member that _is not_ replicated? You'd end up with an inconsistent and broken mess... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Brian Desmond

[NTSysADM] RE: Limit Remote DC to selectively replicate certain OUs?

2017-03-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
Microsoft does not typically document what CANNOT be done. From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Fut Dey Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 2:50 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] Re: Limit Remote DC to selectively replicate

RE: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread James Rankin
Gonna have a look in a bit, cheers... From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of J- P Sent: 27 March 2017 18:02 To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Question about Word Did you check the link to the video i posted? Jean-Paul

Re: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread Susan E Bradley
Text form fields https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Create-forms-that-users-complete-or-print-in-Word-2016-for-Mac-3312c1b8-78fd-46e0-a3f8-cec300136b82 You build these boxes that you enter the data in and then link other parts of the document to that field. You then lock the document so

[NTSysADM] Anyone see this VMware announcement and deal with it?

2017-03-27 Thread Kurt Buff
The comments section is very interesting, including the author stating that best practice is to turn on RSS in multi-cpu machines with VMXNet3 adapters https://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2017/03/rush-post-vmware-tools-rss-incompatibility-issues.html

[NTSysADM] Re: Limit Remote DC to selectively replicate certain OUs?

2017-03-27 Thread Fut Dey
The compliant is latency and we haven't gotten any numbers to work with. "You'd end up with an inconsistent and broken mess..." and that's what we attempted to convey to upper management because there are additional objects in the directory that needs to be updated, GPOs, domain/enterprise

[NTSysADM] Re: Limit Remote DC to selectively replicate certain OUs?

2017-03-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Send them some Active Directory developers API docs and show them just how incredibly complicated AD really is. Most people incorrectly think AD is LDAP. That's not the case, its an application which implements an LDAP interface to an otherwise far more richer application... jlc

Re: [NTSysADM] Anyone see this VMware announcement and deal with it?

2017-03-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Dang it... I forgot to put in the point of the post: Win2012 and Win2012R2 machines with current-ish VMware tools and RSS enabled can experience some packet loss. Current recommendation until VMware fixes the VMWare Tools is to older version. Yuck. Kurt On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Kurt

RE: [NTSysADM] Anyone see this VMware announcement and deal with it?

2017-03-27 Thread Michael B. Smith
Sidebar: it is absolutely best practice on Hyper-V, on any multi-cpu machine physical and any VM that has multiple virtual CPUs. It makes the difference between 300 Mbps and 750 Mbps. -Original Message- From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On

RE: [NTSysADM] Anyone see this VMware announcement and deal with it?

2017-03-27 Thread Webster
Same with XenServer. If a server has multiple vCPUs, then enable RSS. I have seen it increase performance dramatically, especially with Nutanix boxes. Thanks Carl Webster Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com The Accidental Citrix Admin -Original Message- From:

RE: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread David L Herrick
Look at TEXT on the toolbar I think what you need is to create and insert a Field From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Erik Goldoff Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 7:03 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Question about

[NTSysADM] RE: Limit Remote DC to selectively replicate certain OUs?

2017-03-27 Thread Brian Desmond
This isn't possible. You can selectively replicate certain attributes, but you can't selectively replicate objects. What is the replication issue you're having? What does the network connectivity look like - latency, utilization, bandwidth, etc.? Thanks, Brian Desmond w - 312.625.1438 | c -

RE: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread David L Herrick
Google working with fields and forms in word From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of Erik Goldoff Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 7:03 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Question about Word simple method, use the text <> in

[NTSysADM] RE: Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread Frank Ress
Historically, the kind of functionality you're describing was typically used to personalize form documents. You'd create a template with tags for the variable data, and perform a 'mail merge' against a 2nd file that had the tags and associated actual data for each copy of the form. That

Re: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAskwzL7zbI [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.RAt3aiJYBuf9kl20IGxCHgEsCo=Api] Repeat text in MS Word Using Document Property content ... www.youtube.com

[NTSysADM] RE: TMG forefront server

2017-03-27 Thread Brian Desmond
Yes, you will. Thanks, Brian Desmond w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of David McSpadden Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 9:33 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: TMG forefront server

[NTSysADM] RE: Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread Brian Desmond
You can use content controls to do this. You have to turn the Developer tab on in Word to create them. Thanks, Brian Desmond w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017

[NTSysADM] Re: Limit Remote DC to selectively replicate certain OUs?

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
or ask them to take the MS 70-413 exam ha From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Joseph L. Casale Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 3:35 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com Subject:

Re: [NTSysADM] ORBI wifi

2017-03-27 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Any stats for how much of an increase in ping, jitter, etc? These look very interesting. -- Espi On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:18 PM, J- P wrote: > There is one thing to note, orbi is NOT mesh (although they do market it > that way), all sat's talk to the router, in a home

Re: [NTSysADM] ORBI wifi

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
none as of now, next time I'm out there I will check Jean-Paul Natola From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 9:58 PM To:

Re: [NTSysADM] ORBI wifi

2017-03-27 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
What is the performance like off of those satellites? -- Espi On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 6:16 AM, J- P wrote: > real world use, > > > So a friend of mine (total non techy ) got the Orbi set > > http://www.techradar.com/reviews/netgear-orbi > > > much to my amazement, he

Re: [NTSysADM] Capture the flag...

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
+1 Jean-Paul Natola From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Jeff Steward Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 8:37 AM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com; kurt.b...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [NTSysADM]

Re: [NTSysADM] Capture the flag...

2017-03-27 Thread Jeff Steward
I appreciated the article. On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 8:40 PM Kurt Buff wrote: > You'll need a subscription to see the original, but someone forwarded this > to me: > >

[NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread James Rankin
My Microsoft Office skills are a bit limited and I can't seem to frame the Google query right today... I am writing a template document. At the start of this I want to put a section for "Customer Name", the idea being that when a user uses the template they can simply put the correct customer

Re: [NTSysADM] ORBI wifi

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
he only has 30 / 5 service, and he's getting 28/4 (same as on desktop) Jean-Paul Natola From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 6:29 PM

Re: [NTSysADM] ORBI wifi

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
will let you know within the hour Jean-Paul Natola From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com on behalf of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Monday, March 27, 2017 6:29 PM To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com

Re: [NTSysADM] ORBI wifi

2017-03-27 Thread J- P
There is one thing to note, orbi is NOT mesh (although they do market it that way), all sat's talk to the router, in a home or SoHo I guess that's really of no big deal. But it is worth noting, having Ethernet ports is a plus, we hooked up his slingbox to it and it streams great.

Re: [NTSysADM] Question about Word

2017-03-27 Thread Erik Goldoff
simple method, use the text <> in the template throughout the document, and then perform a Search and Replace ALL for <> with the actual customer name for each time the template is copied and used. On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:19 AM, James Rankin wrote: > My Microsoft Office