@gjacobse said in Voice/Greeting recording for generic holidays and other messages...Where do you get them from?:
AT&T Labs used to have a site, which doesn't seem to want to come up currently.
Try this out and see what it does for you. The US Crystal voice is decent.
With Speed2 it seem decent and useable. Thanks!
Maybe I should ask them to record one LONG greeting and audicity out into each specific greeting. Like "We are closed on Christmas, Newyear,blah blah...." xD
@JaredBusch said in Voice/Greeting recording for generic holidays and other messages...Where do you get them from?:
An day and night IVR and a couple misc messages comes in at $350ish
How many messages total and how long for that price?
That explained the Unresponsive occurred couple minutes ago. No problem afterward. Chrome, Windows 10, HTTPS
Our phone system has a custom greeting if we do not want to use robot tone for greeting... I have 2 options. First is to get a voice talent person within the company to record the recording. Second is to get from somewhere else (hired voice talent or download from somewhere). I want to know if anyone know any website that has variety of greeting recording available for download?
Some greetings I can think of are Generic Holiday.. We are closed due to whatever... Memorial, Independence, Thanks Giving, Christmas, New Year, etc.
@travisdh1
thanks! I'll look around.
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As for the handheld and the transmitters... I assume I need to pick the one with the same or fall within the range of the receivers?
Example: Shure BLX88 (J10: 584 - 608 MHz) + Shure BLX2(J10: 584 - 608 MHz).
So J10 and H10 cannot be use together?
I am very new to audio system.
We are looking for a mic system for our conference room. We use the room for meeting, training, and company wide (50 people) event. Right now I use a regular headset with mic + a laptop with "Listen to this device" and out into Bose speaker. It works but the sound quality is sloppy and it pick up a lot of breathing and friction sound.
My boss wants a better system in place. He wants 3 wireless mics where 2 of them is a concealed kind (The kind that snap on the shirt...not the handheld). I reached out to Shure because it was recommended by one of the manager that their microphone quality is very high. Below are some items recommended by Shure's rep
http://www.shure.com/americas/products/wireless-systems/blx-wireless-systems/blx188-cvl
http://www.shure.com/americas/products/wireless-systems/blx-wireless-systems/blx24r-sm58
http://www.shure.com/americas/products/mixers-dsp/scm268-4-channel-microphone-mixer
http://www.shure.com/americas/products/accessories/wireless-systems/wireless-systems-antennas/ua844swb-antenna-distribution-system
The system would cost us over $1,000+speaker cost. Therefore I am looking for a better option that will utilize Shure's mic quality, or similar brand with equivalent quality. Anyone has any suggestion of what they use? Overall we want to looks professional and not like family meeting.
I was hoping for a $300-400 solution.
All we know is that GPO for crytolocker was broken/denied thus any protection for CryptoLocker was disabled for at most 48 hours. It was a combination of incidents lead to CryptoLocker. Don't think flash is the cause here.
@scottalanmiller said in The story of CryptoLocker... Just happened an hour ago... Thoughts?:
@LAH3385 said in The story of CryptoLocker... Just happened an hour ago... Thoughts?:
@scottalanmiller
So by replacing the infected files on the network drive and nuked the local machine.. we should be in good shape right?Hard to say. You got infected from somewhere. Whatever that was is easily still out there.
Any thoughts on what should we be on the lookout for? My initial guess is whatever started it is on the local machine. The harddrive is nuked and rebuilt using a new hard drive.
@scottalanmiller
So by replacing the infected files on the network drive and nuked the local machine.. we should be in good shape right?
Here's a quick back story: A user reported that McAfee endpoint alert of a Trojan detected. We inspect her machine and confirm it is CryptoLocker. We quickly unhook her machine from our network immediately. We were not sure why or how did CryptoLocker gain access to this user's machine. She has been a great user and very cautious one.
Later we booted her machine with Network cable unhooked to look at her emails and website history...nothing out of ordinary detected. The machine she used is a hand-me-down machine with at most 2 other users before her. Because it is an older machine, it does not have any backup solution implement...all her local files is lost.
Upon further inspection, we found that GPO for preventing CryptoLocker is Denied. We were confused, but quickly conclude it to GPO replication failure we experienced 2-3 days earlier. Among Denied GPOs, beside CryptoLocker, are known GPOs that failed to replicate.
Luckily for us we have backup solution on server side. We boot every active users out and shutdown Shared Path to prevent further contamination. All files were restored using its backup from noon. Overall, everything is resolved.
Lesson of the day: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!!!
Does anyone knows how does CryptoLocker works? How does it spread to network drives? Does it replicate its Trojan as it crypt files? Thoughts?
How to deny an extension (Google Hangout) via GPO? We already have GPO template installed, and it is now pushing some Extensions to certain OU. One of the manager request to restrict Google Hangout from all Chrome browser.
Under Chrome template > Users > Policies > Admin template > Google > Google Chrome (Enterprise) > Extension > Configure Extension installation blacklist... I already enable nckgahadagoaajjgafhacjanaoiihapd;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx but it still enabled.
I use ID;https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx to push extension so I am under the impression it also works for deny as well.
any idea?
@scottalanmiller said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:
@FATeknollogee said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:
Anyone know of a Softmart equivalent on the West Coast? I'd like to eliminate the 1 week shipping time from the East Coast.
They don't ship from Philly. Their warehouses are all over the country. I used to do local pickup in Dallas all of the time. No delay to the west coast.
Do they charge for pickup? And where in DFW are they located at? Just curious
Why am I asking this on the internet and not with academic advisory? Because I believed I will get an honest answer, or real life experience advises. 
Long story short... I do not have a bachelor degree yet. I am almost 30. I have 60 hours credit in College for Mechanical Engineering. I am about 3 semesters away from graduating if going half-time.
So I did VERY poorly when I first started college. English is not my first language and the culture crash hits me hard. I spent at least 2 years (4 semesters) fixing my grades and now I am GPA 2.5+ which allow me to transfer to some universities. However, I am 3 semesters away from graduating Mechanical Engineering. Should I even bother?
I started doing IT related jobs as a hobby/part-time couple years ago. I am now a SystemAdmin with 30~50K salaried (not exact income as it is stupid to post real information on the internet). Am I doing fine with money wise? Yes. Is the job secured? Somewhat. Do I feel threaten of letting go(fired)? No.
Why Mechanical Engineering? My dad is Electrical Engineering... and I want to follow in his foot step. But I don't want to "be" my dad so I choose Mechanical Engineering just for flavor. Now I am in pretty deep in IT to the point I wonder if I should still pursue in other degree? If I graduate with mech engi then I won't get the chance to use my skills in IT much often.
What should I do?
I have to perform bi-annually asset check list soon. Previously I would walk around the office with pen and notepad and note down all asset tag numbers + owner + location. The asset tag itself has barcode which represents the asset tag number. Is there a device (cheap) that allow me to scan and the data ported directly to iPad Excel? Does not have to be iPad or Excel, but preferably some kind of table chart.
If no one knows that's fine too. The task going to take me 2 hrs gathering and 1 hr cross referencing.
Thanks!!
@aaronstuder said in need program deployment (GPO) suggestion... Not how to but more of a best practice.:
What if the leader has a leader computer? - then you don't have to move software, just users
I wish it is that easy, but unfortunately no.
@Jason said in need program deployment (GPO) suggestion... Not how to but more of a best practice.:
Why don't you just look into free editors this is just insane
Because "they" want to use what we already have.
@Dashrender said in need program deployment (GPO) suggestion... Not how to but more of a best practice.:
WOW! what a nightmare!
Not that bad. Luckily we only have one floor. But after a while it become a boring
I want to push GPO for acrobat per security group, but not sure if it's a good idea or ticking bomb.
@Dashrender said in Printer GPOs:
Sigh, so in my hopes (and whatever I was reading 2 years ago) of making my setup be more IP resilient.. I've only gone to achieve the opposite.
Not sure what you mean by that, but we only use server name. It's simple and easy. Best of all it tell us where the print server is at.
For GPO I push ALL available printers to everyone, and set secondary GPO to update default printer to whatever area they reside at.
