November 2004 Archives
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Message from Mike Gerst:
Some of you may have seen this but, this time, MicroSoft Technical support got involved and it was finally resolved. So, put this one in your bags to tech solutions.
Mike
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I am glad to hear that the red X works fine under Excel safe mode. You have performed the following three steps (disable all the installed add-ins, Recreate the Excel registry key, rename the .xlb files), however, the issue persists. As it works under Excel safe mode, please continue to the steps below.
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Hi all,
For those of you using GroupWise WebAccess 55 to read your mail, please choose a newer Webaccess by browsing to:
and selecting one of following GroupWise 6.5 WebAccess servers:
http://county-agents.tamu.edu
or
http://agents.tamu.edu
You can also select Enterprise GroupWise 6.5 WebAccess( http://aggw6.tamu.edu) but it will be slower than either than the other two because it works for all GW 6.5 Post offices and is not optimized for county agent email.
You can Bookmark these sites for your convience.
Remember: After Nov 28, 2004 the GW 55 WebAccess link will stop working for email on either Agents or County-Agents mailboxes.
Mike
Items discussed included the following:
1. Philip opened the discussion about upgrading Symantec on servers and clients. He reminded everyone that upgrading to v9.0 on a client causes the windows security center not to communicate with v 9. There is a patch for SP2 that Symantec can communicate with. Version 9.0.1 of Symantec includes the patch for SP2 to recognize the client. When we update a server to 9.0 or 9.0.1, that server cannot co-exist in a group of servers that is not v8.1.1. Before we can update the servers, any clients using v7.6 should to be brought up to at least
the version that is already on the server before we can update the server to 9.x. Philip asked for volunteers to test out this program. Ag and Environmental Safety might be one to test per Mike’s suggestion. Some individual clients may have to be revisited. After installing SP2 on WinXP, udp port 2967 has to be open. For people who login to the Novell server, this upgrade can be pushed from a login script, but you have to ask for it. Mike indicated that you must let him or Philip know if you are interested in this “push” to the upgrade. Rory asked, “Can GRC.dat files be done this same way?” Philip replied that pushing the client from a server to a managed client keeps that client managed. If the client was unmanaged, it becomes managed.
2. Philip said several things have happened that deploying Zenworks might help us out in individual aspects. There is remote installation and un-installation of applications, remote control, Wake On Lan, remote uninstall, etc. This could prove effective on imaging of workstations and the cost-share computer program where several PC’s could have an image pushed to them to make them ready for the users at the county to plug in and use. It will take some planning and education on the part of users. Zenworks will keep some types of programs from running on PC’s. Phil is looking for clients to help run this system and do testing.
3. For your information, Guinevere has caught over 3200 virus messages this past weekend. This is the W32.Beagle.AV@mm virus discovered last Friday. It is out there. There was no other general discussion. The meeting was adjourned at 10:50 a.m.
Respectfully submitted by,
Melanie Mattil
Administrative Assistant
A number of people are having a problem getting the Centra client to launch from their web browser. A procedure that has seemed to work in a number of instances is to reinstall the client and activating ActiveX. Below is a procedure I have used with several people, and it seems to work.
1. Click the Start button on your task bar and select "Control Panel", and then "Add/Remove Programs".
2. Select the CentraOne entry from the list of programs, click on it to select it; then click on the button to fully remove the program. Close the Add/Remove Programs window and the Control Panel windowl.
3. Launch Internet Explorer and click on the "Tools" menu.
4. From the pull down list, select "Internet Options"; then click on the "Security" tab.
5. Click on the picture of the globe named "Internet," and then on the "Custom Level" button in the lower portion of that window.
6. About the third major item in the list is "ActiveX Controls and Plug-ins." Proceed through that whole section on Active X being sure the various items are either enabled or set to "Prompt." In particular, be sure that the first one says to "Enable" automatic prompting for Active X controls. Then click on "OK" to close this window, and then "OK" again to close the Internet Options window.
7. Point your browser to http://centra.tamu.edu/main/tce and click on the System Check link just below the logo at the top of the page. Hopefully, the Centra client software will properly install, complete with the audio check.
The core EIT blogging team will meet on Monday, November 22 to plan the full implementation of this system. Among the topics is the appearance, requirements for creating new blogs, and how to protect access to a specific blog.
Thanks to http://www.movabletype.org/, we now have a "weblog". For those who are interested, scripts are Perl 5.6.1, build 635 (from ActiveState) and entries are stored in a MySql database. Server is Apache 2.0.49 and platform is Win2000.
~ja
