We've upgraded our entire office as part of an early adopter program for MS partners, and did it by using a customized image that was applied over the existing hard drive contents (including the move to Windows.old), and was then followed by a migration of all user settings using USMT. This worked perfectly.
So far, we've migrated two smaller customers to Windows 7 (each 10 desktops). They're very happy. Zero issues.
I did one upgrade - so far. Our CEOs personal home machine. He had a variety of programs where he lost the CD, Manual, Key, etc. and wanted everything migrated. Was a Vista Business SP2 32bit Machine. Uninstalled all the phone sync, antivirus, etc. software, run the Upgrade, reinstalled all the hardware interfacing software, and everything worked perfectly again. Took about 4 hours, though.
I know another slashdotter mentioned that hosting PST files on a Windows server could bring the server to its knees, but we've done testing and have never had an issue. Luck to us?
The only thing we still use are.OST files, for Cached Exchange mode. I've seen corruption of these happens back when Office 2007 didn't have any SPs out yet, but deleting the OST and having it rebuilt from the servers always cleared that issue.
My.ost is 4.5GB. Performance in Outlook is extremely good.
I can get next-day shipping from several big online shops here. They have plenty of stock, too.
Whenever i go to a brick and mortar store, they usually sell outdated stuff (e.G. i needed a new graphics card, and was looking for a GT210 or something like that. the brick and mortar star only sold 8xxx Nvidia cards). I ordered it online, even though i actually was in three stores - none of them had any GT210.
Sure, you can program everything from scratch and that might even appeal to you if you're the CEO of a company that sells programming services, but in many cases it makes more sense to use off-the-shelf software (which drupal is - well, off an imaginery shelf where everything is free as long as you give back).
If it did, the next slashdot story would be "Microsoft prevents open source projects from running on Windows, unless they purchase an expensive Authenticode cert".
Debian didn't sign anything for a long, long time. Or Slackware. Or Gentoo. Of course this has all been fixed by now, but Linux sure wasn't what started the whole "sign everything" trend.
While Windows has been displaying a lot of warnings with missing Authenticode signatures starting with Windows XP.
And I thought a modern OS would be intrinsically safe for virus infection...
You can ensure that on a managed enterprise desktop.
But if the user and the administrator are the same person, without the necessary knowledge to operate a computer safely, it is impossible to prevent this from happening.
The malware now available for OS X just proves that.
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Doesn't Apple just sell upgrade licenses at retail?
At least that's how i understood it. And the other licenses are locked to the hardware - just like Microsoft's OEM licenses.
No kidding.
We've upgraded our entire office as part of an early adopter program for MS partners, and did it by using a customized image that was applied over the existing hard drive contents (including the move to Windows.old), and was then followed by a migration of all user settings using USMT. This worked perfectly.
So far, we've migrated two smaller customers to Windows 7 (each 10 desktops). They're very happy. Zero issues.
I did one upgrade - so far. Our CEOs personal home machine. He had a variety of programs where he lost the CD, Manual, Key, etc. and wanted everything migrated. Was a Vista Business SP2 32bit Machine. Uninstalled all the phone sync, antivirus, etc. software, run the Upgrade, reinstalled all the hardware interfacing software, and everything worked perfectly again. Took about 4 hours, though.
I think it was all about money. At the advent of Wireless networking, AES would've been expensive to implement.
Think about a 1000 people campus. E-Mail might be the best way in many cases.
I've installed the firmware too (unfortunately, just before the first few bad reports appeared).
But i haven't encountered any issues so far. Running Windows 7 x64 Professional.
I didn't reboot or powercycle my machine, though.
Luckily, i also have a backup :)
I've never thought i'd see that term on Slashdot ;)
Firmware updates are, so far, only available for the high performance drives. Intel's drives, OCZ's Vertex series, etc.
With the exception that a broken OST can be deleted and automatically recreated ;)
Here's the official word:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297019
The issue only occurs on heavily loaded fileservers, but PSTs on fileservers are nonetheless a bad idea.
Exchange 2010 will have this. Currently, there are many third party products that offer such functionality.
How do you backup 10GB of Mails that are saved to a PST on the client?
If you don't back that data up, why have it at all?
Are there still companies utilizing PST files?
The only thing we still use are .OST files, for Cached Exchange mode. I've seen corruption of these happens back when Office 2007 didn't have any SPs out yet, but deleting the OST and having it rebuilt from the servers always cleared that issue.
My .ost is 4.5GB. Performance in Outlook is extremely good.
REAL MEN don't have computers.
You're assuming that the guy the interviewer talked with actually wants to ship buggy software. He doesn't.
Management does. Because they're interested in the shareholders, not the customers.
That's above your paygrade.
I can get next-day shipping from several big online shops here. They have plenty of stock, too.
Whenever i go to a brick and mortar store, they usually sell outdated stuff (e.G. i needed a new graphics card, and was looking for a GT210 or something like that. the brick and mortar star only sold 8xxx Nvidia cards). I ordered it online, even though i actually was in three stores - none of them had any GT210.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Sure, you can program everything from scratch and that might even appeal to you if you're the CEO of a company that sells programming services, but in many cases it makes more sense to use off-the-shelf software (which drupal is - well, off an imaginery shelf where everything is free as long as you give back).
Are you a troll, naive or stupid?
A CMS is required if you want content to be updatable by non-programmers, which is almost always a very requirement on larger corporates pages.
A CMS will also allow versioning of content, making it easy to publish new content at specific points in time.
If it did, the next slashdot story would be "Microsoft prevents open source projects from running on Windows, unless they purchase an expensive Authenticode cert".
You can't both ways.
How's that different from the usual infection vectors on Windows?
User downloads program from shady site. Executes it and agress to the UAC prompt. Bam. All done.
You mean just like Internet Explorer has been doing since the End of 2006?
Infected copies of Apple's iWork are already floating around.
http://gizmodo.com/5139116/os-x-iwork-trojan-revamped-repackaged-rereleased-in-photoshop
Then you're quite new to the Linux game.
Debian didn't sign anything for a long, long time. Or Slackware. Or Gentoo. Of course this has all been fixed by now, but Linux sure wasn't what started the whole "sign everything" trend.
While Windows has been displaying a lot of warnings with missing Authenticode signatures starting with Windows XP.
The main issue isn't the CPU. It's the small screen and shitty keyboard.
My media center is an Asrock ION 330. It's plenty fast, works great, but i'm glad my desktop has an i7-920 and my laptop has a P8700.
You can ensure that on a managed enterprise desktop.
But if the user and the administrator are the same person, without the necessary knowledge to operate a computer safely, it is impossible to prevent this from happening.
The malware now available for OS X just proves that.
I've never even heard our executives or customers talk about cloud computing. So it must be a fad.