Just move your mouse to bottom left and you will get a Start button of
sorts, which of course brings you back to the new UI where you can see
all of your apps (what, you mean you use legacy ones!?). Quick launch
and desktop shortcuts for speed. Alternatively top right with mouse to
Charms menu
Great, thanks. I hadn't noticed an announcement either.
Jim M
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 10:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Free ebook: Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT
Professionals (Final Edition)
Thx, MBS!
Regards,
Don Guyer
Catholic Health East - Information Technology
Enterprise Directory Messaging Services
3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073
email: dgu...@che.orgmailto:dgu...@che.org
Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440
For immediate
You can also customize that menu
http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/11/26/customizing-the-power-users-task
s-menu-in-windows-8/
From: Alan Davies [mailto:adav...@cls-services.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 11:40 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Window 8 on your PC
Don't think you can exclude any part of the SS.
Regards,
Don Guyer
Catholic Health East - Information Technology
Enterprise Directory Messaging Services
3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073
email: dgu...@che.org
Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax:
I have to be honest, I haven't missed the 'start button' since day 2 of my
transistion. While where I work is definitly a 'never going to it' sort of
place at the moment, I was at a medical specialists practice recently and
they've already migrated their desktops to it. I was shocked. About 75
That's the reason we use lots of drive letters. In the SBS world where we
typically work we tend to put WSUS and other 'stuff' on their own drives for
that kind of reason. Heck we even have one server with a TB USB drive attached
which is then passed through to the Hyper-V client just for
For those who replicate their Virtual Servers to their Disaster Recovery site,
I'm curious who uses what method.
I don't have a second SAN in my disaster recovery site right now, and I'm
looking for other methods to replicate my VMs without SAN-to-SAN.
There's always the option of just taking a
Hyper-V Replica
In my opinion, one of the several KILLER features in Server 2012.
From: Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan [mailto:jderrenbac...@keitercpa.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 1:41 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Replicating VMs to DR?
For those who replicate their Virtual Servers
Just curious - if you don't have a SAN at your DR site, are you going to be
able to adequately conduct business in a DR scenario?
Jim
Jim Holmgren
Director of Technology Infrastructure
XLHealth Corporation
The Warehouse at Camden Yards
351 West Camden Street, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21201
WDS is already on a separate drive. Yet I'm still forced to back up WDS as
part of the System State, best I can tell.
Original Message:
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From: Mike Hoffman m...@drumbrae.net
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:46:34 +
To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: RE: excluding
It does not have to be a blank area, just right-click anywhere on the Start
Screen and the All Apps button appears. Also clicking the Dash to the right
of the scroll bar on the Start Screen gives you the ability to organize the
Start Screen, in case you had not found that one either. I have my
Quick Google uncovered a post stating to stop the WDS service prior to backup.
Proceed at your own risk, YMMV and all that cr@p...
: )
Regards,
Don Guyer
Catholic Health East - Information Technology
Enterprise Directory Messaging Services
3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa
Sam,
I don't believe that you regularly shut down Windows 2000 by simply pushing the
power button with no regard for system state beforehand. If you had you would
not have been in IT for very long at all ;-).
Regards,
Tim
From: Sam Cayze [mailto:sca...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21,
I have the 8X while my wife has a Nokia 810 (doesn't have any of the issues
mentioned about the 920) and they are both excellent phones. We went with
different phones based on personal preference regarding size and feel and we
are both very happy with our choices 2 almost 2 weeks later.
I
Good question. Based on the disk I/O, it won't be horrible.
Not all VMs or files will replicate though which lowers the load.
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4401 Dominion Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Glen Allen, VA 23060
phone: 804-273-6221 |
Veeam does exactly that kind of replication as well as backup.
There is also a product from Doubletake that does it I believe.
HTH
Paul G.
From: Derrenbacker, L. Jonathan [mailto:jderrenbac...@keitercpa.com]
Sent: 26 November 2012 18:41
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/how-to#2TC=windows8
^^ Lots of little short how to videos there by the way.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Tim Vander Kooi tvanderk...@expl.comwrote:
It does not have to be a blank area, just right-click anywhere on the
Start Screen and the All
IMO, the WDS server doesn't change often enough to require frequent
backups. It gets an ad hoc backup, and relatively infrequent updates, as
necessary, based on changes to the image library.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 2:05 PM, jesse-r...@wi.rr.com
jesse-r...@wi.rr.comwrote:
WDS is already on a
I finally got my Nokia 920 last week, changed from a Galaxy III S, what a
breath of fresh air, s. . . . simple to use.
Battery life 2 days? Right now it's been running 9 hours I have 77% left
and the estimated time remaining is 22 hours.
OK so I'm not a very heavy user but still it's very
Agreed, on not missing Android. I've been using Android on phone and tablet
for a couple years, and just finished moving to all Win devices. I feel
liberated.
-Original Message-
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:22 PM
To: NT System
*I certainly don't miss Android, Windows Phone 8 is far superior for
everyday use and don't even get me going on battery life.*
This is what I've been hearing from a number of people, and I'm looking
forward to moving away from Android as well, as soon as my contract with
Verizon is up.
Agreed, on not missing Android. I've been using Android on phone and tablet
for a couple years, and just finished moving to all Win devices. I feel
liberated.
I'm curious: What's liberating?
I don't have a Windows phone to play with, so I can't reference. I am still
using an old iPhone 3GS
Fwiw I have often gotten upgrades from them before the contract is up. I have
been successful as much as 5 months ahead of time. They have a system to
'mark' valued customers based on how long you have been there, how much you
spend, how much trouble you have been and how quickly you pay your
And Andrew, there is a cyber Monday deal at VZ today. The 920 is free. Call
them and beg, can't hurt.
From: Kennedy, Jim
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
Fwiw I have often gotten upgrades from them before the contract is up. I
Appassure makes a product called Replay that does this. We use it for all of
our BDR appliances that we put into our customers. Allows it to run locally
and then we replicate it to our central repository. Allows for local as well
and offsite.
Greg Sweers
CEO
Windows Phone is available on Verizon, too.
Id never go WP8 unless it was available on Verizon. Not wanting to trade
one woe for another.
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:20 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: windows phone 8
Android is pretty much open space to do with what you want. But, to tell you
the truth, it became a chore just managing apps, and app locations, etc.
Plus, there's the whole Google tracks everything you do thing.
I've been down just about every tablet/phone road. Touchpad, Android, iOS.
Verra nice - matches the earlier one for Server 2012.
Thank you.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/11/13/free-ebook-introducing-windows-8-an-overview-for-it-professionals-final-edition.aspx
Free
I had the new Razr Maxx for over 90 days, and they allowed me to trade it in
for the HTC 8x.
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:27 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
Fwiw I have often gotten upgrades from
Agreed, but that doesn't solve my issue since I can't seem to prevent it
from getting backed up as part of the system state. I think I'm going to
have to schedule stopping the WDS service each night, and schedule it to
start up again sometime after the backup is done. I've been able to verify
Windows 2000 couldn't do a graceful shutdown via button? Wasn't aware.
Never had to use/support Win2000 luckily. Was supporting Macs my first two
years back then.
XP did come out 11 years ago.
From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 1:19 PM
To:
And you don't think (MS|Apple|Whomever) is tracking you?
Well if the WP8 interface is the same as the Window 8 RT interface, I'll be
less than enthusiastic. I guess I'll have to try one out to be sure.
--Matt Ross
On Nov 26, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote:
Same here I evaluate phones for the company, this is my fourth phone this
year, BB, iPhone, Galaxy and now Nokia 920, I totally 100+ what Rod had to
say, It just feels clean and easy to use
Stefan
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote:
Android is pretty much
We know that all companies track for various reasons. However, Google tracks
for more nefarious reasons.
Number 1: they make money off of tracking you.
Number 2: do some research on Google's ties to the US gov't.
Apple and Microsoft may track you, but their revenue stream is quite a bit
Put CyanogenMod9 on that device, pronto. :) My touchpad is loving it.
Android is quirky. Not so bad when you get the pure variants, but because
of the hardware differences, even rooting is awkward. My Droid RAZR can't
get a CyanogenMod9 or 10 for a while, and Eclipse, while a nice ROM, was
Worth a consideration, but the timing is not yet right :)
*ASB*
*http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker**
*Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market…*
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Kennedy, Jim
kennedy...@elyriaschools.orgwrote:
And
A co-worker said his girlfriends phone had the battery life issue so he did
the factory reset on it and she hasn't had a problem since. Just FYI.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Stefan Jafs stefan.j...@gmail.com wrote:
Same here I evaluate phones for the company, this is my fourth phone this
Oops. I meant CM9. I typed 8. Can't wait for 10.
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Andrew S. Baker
[mailto:asbz...@gmail.com]
To: NT System Admin Issues
[mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Mon, 26 Nov 2012
13:48:03 -0800
Subject: Re:
I can tell you that from my POV the People Hub (instead of Contacts) is a much
nicer way to interact with people. I show my friends with Android or iOS phones
how you can post to someone's Facebook wall, post to Twitter regarding them, IM
them, text them, call any number of phones that they
Sounds good. I hope I get the chance to play with one sometime.
--Matt Ross
Ephrata School District
- Original Message -
From: Tim Vander Kooi
[mailto:tvanderk...@expl.com]
To: NT System Admin Issues
[mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com]
Sent: Mon, 26 Nov 2012
16:29:35 -0800
If you are outside the US, then Windows Phone is sadly lacking, compared to
iPhone and Android
I've been a big WinMo/WP user (and currently have an Omnia 7), but when I look
at the apps and info available on iPhone and Android, it's just depressing.
Mapping is poor on WP (well, maybe not
I have friends in the UK who have recently picked up the Lumias. I’ll have to
see what they think.
Sent from Windows Mail
From: Ken Schaefer
Sent: November 26, 2012 7:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: windows phone 8
If you are outside the US, then Windows Phone is
Also, you have to change your settings to English (US) to get a bunch of apps
to show up (e.g. AroundMe). I have always just assumed that this is because the
developer has said that it supports English (US) rather than English
(UK)/English (Australia)/English(Singapore)/English(…). Changing
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