Tech Brief
The Associated General Contractors of America
July 2012
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Register now for the 4th annual AGC IT Forum Conference, scheduled for Aug. 16-17, 2012, in Chicago, Ill. Also, be sure to make your hotel arrangements for the conference before July 26 to take advantage of AGC-negotiated room rates.
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 The 4th annual IT Forum Conference in August is slated to be a very informative, productive and enjoyable event. If you have not yet registered, do so today!
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/ngc-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=184030&issueID=26321 to view the full article online. |
 Businesses across every industry are exploring cloud-based solutions in an effort to increase operational efficiency, cut costs and boost revenues. In fact, hosted strategies are now being implemented on a widespread basis to build bridges between companies and their mission-critical data, enabling both employees and equipment to function at optimal levels as they seek to complete every task.
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The IT Forum allows AGC members to share experiences and best practices in order to improve efficiency.
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We are an exchange 2010 shop – but the active sync management thru the GUI is still rather weak – and I don’t like to dive into powershell scripts each time I want info. For those of you who have implemented a MDM server for your phones and tablets – which service did you choose and why (AirWatch, MobileIron, Good, etc.)? I am most interested in: I am open to hosted cloud service or traditional server – whichever gives me the tightest Exchange link. A. We were looking into MaaS360, but haven’t decided. How many devices are you dealing with? For us it is in the 250 range, with iPads. A. We decommissioned our BB server a month ago. 150 migrations to Android devices and a couple of iPhones. We are using AirWatch for MDM. It is an OK product but more geared towards iOS. We may look at the Motorola solution. |
Q. We are in the process of a migration out of Blackberry smart phones into Active-Sync phones (mainly IPhone 4S).|
1. Barracuda Does anyone have experience with these? Your recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you, A. Ivey has not used any of these, but is using an independent company called "The Solutions Team" that provides cloud backup in a Tier IV data center and also provides redundant backup in a secondary data center if you desire. Have been using them for a couple of years not and so far have been pleased with what they provide at a fairly economical cost. Can provide info if you are interested in talking to them. A. We use a combination of online and offline backups. We have a Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 onsite then a second unit offsite. The DPM server does file snapshots during the day and stores up to five days, this provides quick restore. For long term I use the backup feature in Server 2008 R2 and have those backup files copied over to a 3TB USB drive using Robocopy then once a week take that to the offsite facility. When using the backup feature of Server 2008 R2 it creates a VHD file so you can mount it or load it into Hyper V. Microsoft has upgraded this to System Center 2012. We have been using this method for over a year. I haven’t had time to research the System Center 2012 and what changes that will bring. Have you read anything of interest on System Center 2012? I did a price check and with 15 servers I don’t think we can afford it. A. Good to see someone else using DPM 2010. Great product! |
Q. Good Evening everyone – You input is appreciated. We have made a decision to move from tape to cloud and the three candidates are...|
Register now for the 4th annual AGC IT Forum Conference, scheduled for Aug. 16-17, 2012, in Chicago, Ill. Also, be sure to make your hotel arrangements for the conference before July 26 to take advantage of AGC-negotiated room rates.
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/ngc-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=183997&issueID=26321 to view the full article online. | |
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The 4th annual IT Forum Conference in August is slated to be a very informative, productive and enjoyable event. If you have not yet registered, do so today!
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/ngc-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=184030&issueID=26321 to view the full article online. |
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Businesses across every industry are exploring cloud-based solutions in an effort to increase operational efficiency, cut costs and boost revenues. In fact, hosted strategies are now being implemented on a widespread basis to build bridges between companies and their mission-critical data, enabling both employees and equipment to function at optimal levels as they seek to complete every task.
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/ngc-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=184018&issueID=26321 to view the full article online. |
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The IT Forum allows AGC members to share experiences and best practices in order to improve efficiency.
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/ngc-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=183999&issueID=26321 to view the full article online. |
Visit https://www.naylornetwork.com/ngc-nwl/articles/index-v2.asp?aid=184041&issueID=26321 to view the full article online.
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We are an exchange 2010 shop – but the active sync management thru the GUI is still rather weak – and I don’t like to dive into powershell scripts each time I want info. For those of you who have implemented a MDM server for your phones and tablets – which service did you choose and why (AirWatch, MobileIron, Good, etc.)? I am most interested in: I am open to hosted cloud service or traditional server – whichever gives me the tightest Exchange link. A. We were looking into MaaS360, but haven’t decided. How many devices are you dealing with? For us it is in the 250 range, with iPads. A. We decommissioned our BB server a month ago. 150 migrations to Android devices and a couple of iPhones. We are using AirWatch for MDM. It is an OK product but more geared towards iOS. We may look at the Motorola solution. |
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1. Barracuda Does anyone have experience with these? Your recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you, A. Ivey has not used any of these, but is using an independent company called "The Solutions Team" that provides cloud backup in a Tier IV data center and also provides redundant backup in a secondary data center if you desire. Have been using them for a couple of years not and so far have been pleased with what they provide at a fairly economical cost. Can provide info if you are interested in talking to them. A. We use a combination of online and offline backups. We have a Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2010 onsite then a second unit offsite. The DPM server does file snapshots during the day and stores up to five days, this provides quick restore. For long term I use the backup feature in Server 2008 R2 and have those backup files copied over to a 3TB USB drive using Robocopy then once a week take that to the offsite facility. When using the backup feature of Server 2008 R2 it creates a VHD file so you can mount it or load it into Hyper V. Microsoft has upgraded this to System Center 2012. We have been using this method for over a year. I haven’t had time to research the System Center 2012 and what changes that will bring. Have you read anything of interest on System Center 2012? I did a price check and with 15 servers I don’t think we can afford it. A. Good to see someone else using DPM 2010. Great product! |
