First parent comment makes a good point - seeing a review from Alfresco would be a better source, rather than listening to the car salesman tell you how great the used Fiat is
To the reply to his comment - When folks can point Office directly at Alfresco and Office can't really tell that it's really talking to an Alfresco server instead of a SharePoint server, I'd say that's pretty significant. He wasn't saying that Alfresco is a SharePoint clone, he's saying it provides equivalent features. The reality is a _lot_ of corporate offices run Microsoft Office, and being able to provide a backend to Office that's just drop in is a good idea, especially from a user training perspective.
...and I found an article backing up Alfresco pretty well:
"You can now stand up an Alfresco Labs server next to a SharePoint Server, and Office will not be able to tell the difference between the two," said John Newton, CTO of Alfresco. "But we are offering considerably more scale than SharePoint can deliver," he said.
This is a very common misconception (at least in my humble experience...)
Javascript was born at Netscape at a time when the buzzword Java was cool and hip... it really should be called EMACSscript but that's not cool and hip enough
From the Wikipedia article: 'JavaScript, despite the name, is essentially unrelated to the Java programming language even though the two do have superficial similarities. Both languages use syntaxes influenced by that of C syntax, and JavaScript copies many Java names and naming conventions. The language's name is the result of a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser. The key design principles within JavaScript are inherited from the Self and Scheme programming languages.
"JavaScript" is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. It was used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape Communications and current entities such as the Mozilla Foundation."'
Reboot the DC into "Directory Services Restore Mode" (this is on Server 200 and above) and the local Security Accounts Manager is used again, not AD.
This is actually a way of resetting the admin password on a domain, if you ever need to. Boot from the Linux password reset CD (http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html), blank the Administrator password (which resets the _local_ admin password), then reboot into DS Restore Mode. Log in and then copy cmd.exe over on top of logon.scr and reboot into "normal mode" (with AD functional).
Wait until the "screensaver" pops open and you have a command prompt that just opened that's running with SYSTEM privledges. From there you can run mmc.exe (or whatever else you like).
Oh and of course, this is exactly why you don't allow physical access to servers....
In reference to the PDC statement, I'm not aware of any way to use local accounts on NT 4 or below, but I think he meant just DC instead of "PDC."
... and while at Harvard, he realized that EVERYONE there was smart and scored a near perfect score on their SAT's. Making him average. So he dropped out. Giving further insight into his psyche; if he has ACTUAL competition, he will quit the game.
Dude he dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft.... him and Paul Allen saw the Altair as "it's go time." It wasn't some three year old pouting because he was suddenly in the presence of people who were also smart (although being smart isn't necessarily the key to getting into an Ivy league school...)
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I still consider Win 95's model of "oh god bad stuff happened throw up a blue screen and tell the user to restart" cooperative, when compared to NT 4's preemptive style. At least in NT 4 when an app crashed and burned task manager could usually kill it...
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I agree with your sentiment on running a "tried, proven and fixed system" but Windows ME was anything but... it was still based on the broken hybrid DOS/Windows model (VXDs, cooperative multitasking... yay!), whereas Windows 2000 was essentially Windows NT 5.
If you really wanted to stick with a "proven" platform you could have stuck with NT 4 SP 6a:)
Microsoft has repeatedly chosen to patch Windows instead of rebuilding it from the ground up as a modern operating system, the way Apple did with OS X. They should have known 8 years ago that this was the wrong strategy.
Er, Windows NT (Windows 7 is Windows NT 6.1) was a complete rebuild from scratch of Windows that discarded all the architecture of the DOS/Windows 95 era, just like OS X was a "clean slate" OS that didn't recycle anything architecturally from the OS 9 era.
You have to admit that having software automatically push to the machine (as needed if you want), patch management centralized already (because yes Virginia Linux needs patches too.. any mainstream OS does) and a single centralized password store are all necessary things in an enterprise though
Backup in 2008 is "cooler in other ways" though - backup images that are made are VHDs (Hyper-Vs image format) and are bootable! How about that for bare metal restore
This is all true... the best admin advice I can think of was when Scotty (from Star Trek lore) fairly yelled at a young engineer "How many times do I have to tell you, the right tool for the right job!"
...and can fully leverage the new GP features in Vista, assuming you chose to deploy Vista in the first place.
Yes that's true, but you can push a "Group Policy Client Side Extension" package (with WSUS if you have it setup) that gives you those features on XP and Server 2K3 as well...
RODC seems like a good idea... your AD forest has to be upgraded to 2K8's schema though, right?
I think you're completely misunderstanding what he was setting up there... it looks like he's using PPPD to "bridge" the iPAQ across his Linux box to his Windows box, just so he can sniff the ActiveSync traffic.
From the page you reference: "You can use your device as if it were *directly* connected to the Windows box, and you can spy the traffic between the Device and the Server !
The protocol seems to be needing a TCP server on the ActiveSync side, on port 5679. "
I'm pretty sure that during the install for Adobe Reader you're given the option to install the browser plugin or not (maybe the most you have to do is go into "Custom install)... with the.NET addon all that happened as far as I can see is that I installed pending updates, rebooted, and bam the addon was there
Do you see how that's a different situation than installing an app that adds a browser plugin?
It most definitely IS unexpected, because I was never notified anywhere that a MICROSOFT update would entail installing an addon to a completely NON-Microsoft product.
Just because I installed the.NET framework, I'm subject to whatever else MS wants to do to my computer? Nay, sir, nay.
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Hear, hear. The most fun I remember in America's Army was shooting the drill sergeant and ending up in the brig.
Haha so you were a 25F? Yea the title sounds so glamorous, until you actually have to setup a SSS and pound 6' ground rods all day
Better than an acid burn, not as tasty as a crash override!
First parent comment makes a good point - seeing a review from Alfresco would be a better source, rather than listening to the car salesman tell you how great the used Fiat is
To the reply to his comment - When folks can point Office directly at Alfresco and Office can't really tell that it's really talking to an Alfresco server instead of a SharePoint server, I'd say that's pretty significant. He wasn't saying that Alfresco is a SharePoint clone, he's saying it provides equivalent features. The reality is a _lot_ of corporate offices run Microsoft Office, and being able to provide a backend to Office that's just drop in is a good idea, especially from a user training perspective.
...and I found an article backing up Alfresco pretty well:
"You can now stand up an Alfresco Labs server next to a SharePoint Server, and Office will not be able to tell the difference between the two," said John Newton, CTO of Alfresco. "But we are offering considerably more scale than SharePoint can deliver," he said.
Or some other corporate content management system
How would this work where TFS (the subject of the article) sounds like he's an employee of the company? There's no 'pay by the hour' in his case
Wait, you were running servers using Fedora? Madness I tell you!
If you want a RedHat-like OS on a server why not install CentOS?
Hah whoops please `sed s/EMACS/ECMA/` in that last post... everyone knows EMACS has its own scripting language (it is an operating system, after all)
This is a very common misconception (at least in my humble experience...)
Javascript was born at Netscape at a time when the buzzword Java was cool and hip... it really should be called EMACSscript but that's not cool and hip enough
From the Wikipedia article:
'JavaScript, despite the name, is essentially unrelated to the Java programming language even though the two do have superficial similarities. Both languages use syntaxes influenced by that of C syntax, and JavaScript copies many Java names and naming conventions. The language's name is the result of a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser. The key design principles within JavaScript are inherited from the Self and Scheme programming languages.
"JavaScript" is a trademark of Sun Microsystems. It was used under license for technology invented and implemented by Netscape Communications and current entities such as the Mozilla Foundation."'
Reboot the DC into "Directory Services Restore Mode" (this is on Server 200 and above) and the local Security Accounts Manager is used again, not AD.
This is actually a way of resetting the admin password on a domain, if you ever need to. Boot from the Linux password reset CD (http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html), blank the Administrator password (which resets the _local_ admin password), then reboot into DS Restore Mode. Log in and then copy cmd.exe over on top of logon.scr and reboot into "normal mode" (with AD functional).
Wait until the "screensaver" pops open and you have a command prompt that just opened that's running with SYSTEM privledges. From there you can run mmc.exe (or whatever else you like).
Oh and of course, this is exactly why you don't allow physical access to servers....
In reference to the PDC statement, I'm not aware of any way to use local accounts on NT 4 or below, but I think he meant just DC instead of "PDC."
Dude he dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft.... him and Paul Allen saw the Altair as "it's go time." It wasn't some three year old pouting because he was suddenly in the presence of people who were also smart (although being smart isn't necessarily the key to getting into an Ivy league school...)
I still consider Win 95's model of "oh god bad stuff happened throw up a blue screen and tell the user to restart" cooperative, when compared to NT 4's preemptive style. At least in NT 4 when an app crashed and burned task manager could usually kill it...
I agree with your sentiment on running a "tried, proven and fixed system" but Windows ME was anything but... it was still based on the broken hybrid DOS/Windows model (VXDs, cooperative multitasking... yay!), whereas Windows 2000 was essentially Windows NT 5.
If you really wanted to stick with a "proven" platform you could have stuck with NT 4 SP 6a :)
Just point out his mistakes man, jesus... you don't have to attack his profession.
Teaching is a difficult career choice to say the least...
These gems are why I still read Slashdot :)
Really interesting, in depth post. You sir deserve a virtual beer or other beverage of choice.
Microsoft has repeatedly chosen to patch Windows instead of rebuilding it from the ground up as a modern operating system, the way Apple did with OS X. They should have known 8 years ago that this was the wrong strategy.
Er, Windows NT (Windows 7 is Windows NT 6.1) was a complete rebuild from scratch of Windows that discarded all the architecture of the DOS/Windows 95 era, just like OS X was a "clean slate" OS that didn't recycle anything architecturally from the OS 9 era.
You have to admit that having software automatically push to the machine (as needed if you want), patch management centralized already (because yes Virginia Linux needs patches too.. any mainstream OS does) and a single centralized password store are all necessary things in an enterprise though
Troll? I wasn't trolling for a riled up response, I really was curious if he was talking about OS X's version of "UAC" or Windows UAC
e.g. if you can't do something in a Finder window, sometimes you can do it in a terminal window
Wait, you're talking about doing this on Windows right? s/Finder/Explorer/ and s/terminal/command prompt/ right? Otherwise I'm so confused...
Backup in 2008 is "cooler in other ways" though - backup images that are made are VHDs (Hyper-Vs image format) and are bootable! How about that for bare metal restore
You can get NTBackup working on Windows Vista: http://www.petri.co.il/installing_windows_xp_ntbackup_on_windows_vista.htm
I'd imagine those instructions would work on Server 2K8 as well... they're based on the same codebase afaik
This is all true... the best admin advice I can think of was when Scotty (from Star Trek lore) fairly yelled at a young engineer "How many times do I have to tell you, the right tool for the right job!"
...and can fully leverage the new GP features in Vista, assuming you chose to deploy Vista in the first place.
Yes that's true, but you can push a "Group Policy Client Side Extension" package (with WSUS if you have it setup) that gives you those features on XP and Server 2K3 as well...
RODC seems like a good idea... your AD forest has to be upgraded to 2K8's schema though, right?
I think you're completely misunderstanding what he was setting up there... it looks like he's using PPPD to "bridge" the iPAQ across his Linux box to his Windows box, just so he can sniff the ActiveSync traffic.
From the page you reference:
"You can use your device as if it were *directly* connected to the Windows box, and you can spy the traffic between the Device and the Server !
The protocol seems to be needing a TCP server on the ActiveSync side, on port 5679. "
That, er, doesn't mean ActiveSync is PPP.
I'm pretty sure that during the install for Adobe Reader you're given the option to install the browser plugin or not (maybe the most you have to do is go into "Custom install)... with the .NET addon all that happened as far as I can see is that I installed pending updates, rebooted, and bam the addon was there
Do you see how that's a different situation than installing an app that adds a browser plugin?
It most definitely IS unexpected, because I was never notified anywhere that a MICROSOFT update would entail installing an addon to a completely NON-Microsoft product.
.NET framework, I'm subject to whatever else MS wants to do to my computer? Nay, sir, nay.
Just because I installed the