I see no discussion here, exception of a brief mention above about not being able to use a hotspot that requires a logon, about using this phone at home on your own SECURED (WPA encryption) wireless network. Is there a serial/USB-to-computer connection available for users to set up the WPA authorization onto the cell phone or does the user have to type in the 64-CHARACTER ENCRYPTION KEY every time you want to use your home network?
-*-Bill
Back in the day (well, the prehistoric computing day), IBM was the "Yes, sir!" company -- we're talking the 60s and 70s here. If you bought IBM products for the corporate server farm, you deserved a real, "Attaboy!", "Job well done," "Can't go wrong choosing IBM." It's this same kind of dull-thinking, clone mentality that is the mindset public schools are facing today.
The school district I work in is stumbling toward Microsoft oblivion from our fabulous Netware systems. We pay a tad shy of $40K/year for unlimited Netware servers, client software, GroupWise (I like it a whole lot more than any Outlook), ZENWorks for desktop management/policies/imaging. We haven't been allowed to even try using any of the other Novell tools that are included in our School License Agreement, namely iFolder, NDPS, easy inventory management. Mostly because if the users got a taste of iFolder and being able to access their school server storage securely from home, there'd be no way they'd allow a migration to continue.
There really is no confirmed $$ amount for what it will cost to migrate all the servers in the school district to Windows 2003, set up multiple M$ Exchange boxes to replace the single GroupWise box, there is no plan for a desktop management package because the licensing fees are out of this world, and imaging software (probably a seat license for Symantec Ghost) is an unknown cost factor to replace the fantastic ZENWorks.
It's all a marketing thing -- the IT director (and I use the term loosely) has been simply sold a bill of goods and has no clue how to finish the task or even get any distance along the path.
In the meantime, we're a half Netware 6.x/half M$ Server 2003 district with everyone quivering in fear: "Will my school be next to migrate?"
The servers just don't break and I've been quasi-admining the servers on my campus since 1996 and 3.11. I dread going back to Windows policy management after working with ZENWorks for so long. I would rather just be running SuSE servers and desktops and be done with the whole Windows thing, but schools feel the children can't be deprived of the M$ experience.
Why don't they just have the other rover do a AAA Roadside Assistance? It carries chains, right? Just an attached hook to the rear of the stuck rover, a few good tugs, good as new - back on the road.
-*-Bill
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I see no discussion here, exception of a brief mention above about not being able to use a hotspot that requires a logon, about using this phone at home on your own SECURED (WPA encryption) wireless network. Is there a serial/USB-to-computer connection available for users to set up the WPA authorization onto the cell phone or does the user have to type in the 64-CHARACTER ENCRYPTION KEY every time you want to use your home network? -*-Bill
Back in the day (well, the prehistoric computing day), IBM was the "Yes, sir!" company -- we're talking the 60s and 70s here. If you bought IBM products for the corporate server farm, you deserved a real, "Attaboy!", "Job well done," "Can't go wrong choosing IBM." It's this same kind of dull-thinking, clone mentality that is the mindset public schools are facing today.
The school district I work in is stumbling toward Microsoft oblivion from our fabulous Netware systems. We pay a tad shy of $40K/year for unlimited Netware servers, client software, GroupWise (I like it a whole lot more than any Outlook), ZENWorks for desktop management/policies/imaging. We haven't been allowed to even try using any of the other Novell tools that are included in our School License Agreement, namely iFolder, NDPS, easy inventory management. Mostly because if the users got a taste of iFolder and being able to access their school server storage securely from home, there'd be no way they'd allow a migration to continue.
There really is no confirmed $$ amount for what it will cost to migrate all the servers in the school district to Windows 2003, set up multiple M$ Exchange boxes to replace the single GroupWise box, there is no plan for a desktop management package because the licensing fees are out of this world, and imaging software (probably a seat license for Symantec Ghost) is an unknown cost factor to replace the fantastic ZENWorks.
It's all a marketing thing -- the IT director (and I use the term loosely) has been simply sold a bill of goods and has no clue how to finish the task or even get any distance along the path.
In the meantime, we're a half Netware 6.x/half M$ Server 2003 district with everyone quivering in fear: "Will my school be next to migrate?"
The servers just don't break and I've been quasi-admining the servers on my campus since 1996 and 3.11. I dread going back to Windows policy management after working with ZENWorks for so long. I would rather just be running SuSE servers and desktops and be done with the whole Windows thing, but schools feel the children can't be deprived of the M$ experience.
Why don't they just have the other rover do a AAA Roadside Assistance? It carries chains, right? Just an attached hook to the rear of the stuck rover, a few good tugs, good as new - back on the road. -*-Bill