Church IT Roundtable

I re-logged into the machine and found that they are not in place still. I surprised and made relogin again, this time they mapped. Finally after applying multiple tests like this, I came to a conclusion that, I have below two problems…  1) Drive mapping is not happening at every attempt  2) Background processing of drive mapping is not working"

"Simple Network Tester's agents run on PCs located at key locations. You command them to send live test data through your network when you need it.  Run tests from your office using Simple Network Tester's user-friendly web pages.  Monitor the health of your network just by clicking a few links." Tests jitter to simulate VoIP calls and has a free command-line version to download. $29 per company after 15-day trial.

"22 essential Mac tools for IT admins These (mostly free) open source, donationware, and Apple tools take the pain out of Mac deployment and management"

"Beyond the previous post of general complaints of slowness and sluggishness in Outlook and Exchange, the other complaint I hear frequently these days is specific to Calendaring.  Part of it is calendaring performance (where it might take 20-30 seconds to open up somebody else's calendar to view their calendar) which all of the points I note in the other blog post referenced above will apply to performance issues in calendaring."

"Wireless Networking in the Developing World book can be freely downloaded in a variety of formats."

"Do you really know what is running on your Windows® systems?...Even with strict IT polices in place, the demands of the real world often lead people to take shortcuts that can put an enterprise at risk. When it comes to digital assets, most organizations don't know what they don't know. You can remedy that situation by running Carbon Black."

"HTTP Commander is a web file manager known since 2002 and used by 100s of educational organisations and companies. It's a web file sharing and management, file upload -alternative to FTP, WebDav, Sharepoint, Novell, etc. colutions. This software is intended for fast and easy integration into web sites functionality of sharing and management files and documents at the server through a web browser over HTTP. Users can work remotely with personal or shared folders or edit documents online stored on a server." Brought to my attention (and demo'd) by Rob Shaw of Greenwood Christian Church at August Indianapolis CITRT.

"measure the throughput of a network"

VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick-install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy-to-use music server/jukebox.

"iBoot + MultiBeast: Install Mac OS X on any Intel-based PC"

"Media Social is an innovative online social media player that utilizes Facebook to facilitate community around online media events - live and pre-recorded broadcasting."

"Photo sharing made easy! - privately or in groups" Free

"Print from iPad to any Windows-Connected Printer"

"This script, inspired by the output of an Exchange TAP tool, aims to automatically generate a report that gives you an overview of your environment, Exchange 2007 and 2010 servers and database availability groups"

DataGrab is a utility to quickly retrieve only the *desired* data from a live or offline system for backup.

"In this post, I want to provide you with a few shortcuts, based on my 27-plus years in business. Hopefully, this will shorten your learning curve. As someone who is constantly pitched one thing or another, I have a lot of experience on the receiving end of proposals. I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here are six keys to getting your boss to say 'yes.'"

"mRemoteNG is a fork of mRemote, an open source, tabbed, multi-protocol, remote connections manager. mRemoteNG adds bug fixes and new features to mRemote."