AHK + batch can also accomplish this. I saw a tut on how to use AHK with cmd and put in batch file + combine with task schedule to send emails. I don't have the link but I am sure AHK can help you compose and send it out...assuming you want to send the same message everyday.
I was planning on setting something like that to send me update on my bot (ragnarok online) back in the day. The script I wrote involve taking screenshot, email screenshot to my email. 
The application in question is Adobe Acrobat/Reader 11.
We have limited license of Adobe Acrobat XI so we can only deploy to xx amount of users. I have a list of users who will get it each month. Yes, each month. Reason is we as a recruiting agency have a team-based gameplan. Each month different person will be appoint a team-lead for those team to train leadership, which is awesome IMO. Problem is only team leads will get Adobe Acrobat and the rest will get Reader.
Our agents use Acrobat for compiling PDFs, rotate, watermark, etc. Everyone has either Adobe PDF printer or PDFcreator to convert office/gdoc to PDF. Hope this explain WHY
We do not have any plan to purchase more licenses, nor the will to do so. Right now every month I have to wander around and uninstall/install Acrobat on various machines... about 10 PC (5 team) per month. 5 uninstall + 5 install.
I want to implement a solution through GPO (we don't have PDQ Pros so that's out of the question) where I only need to assign member to each profile to trigger installation of Adobe Acrobat, and uninstall when it falls out of scope. However, I heard that Adobe is picky and can corrupt various registry if use GPO and central deployment folder(thingy).
Suggestion? http://irowiki.org/cl/images/8/82/Que.gif
No need to reply here. Found a solution. Will upload later how to overcome this. Although I don't think anyone would make the same mistake I made... but just in case
The application was published by GPO. I just ran update patch from Adobe on the MSI package and made some changes to the MST (config modify) file. I am not sure if doing so break the application or not... but now I cannot update the application on workstations nor uninstall it.
Any idea? How to fix the Transform? If unfixable what's my next step.
Ultimately I may resort to Revo Pro.
As long as you have all conversation in Ebay message and pay with Paypal + tracking info both send/return, then Paypal can help you reimburse the original payment. Your return shipping not included. you will have to be persistent and try to get Paypal to help you out. eBay rarely help much.
Ignore this thread. I think I was misinformed. I will drive into Sharepoint Foundation and see what's the issue with it. Thanks all
@scottalanmiller said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
You should at least find out which features are missing. That is likely important.
I will do that and update the thread.
@Dashrender said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
@LAH3385 said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
@Carnival-Boy said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
Why don't you want to use Sharepoint? It's free for the functionality you've listed, I believe.
Because the feature we want required paid Sharepoint. Fre version is not enough
Did you list this feature and I missed it?
I did not 
This is from http://mangolassi.it/topic/8020/what-is-intranet-as-in-folder-structure where I asked about intranet. So now we are in full pursuit of this concept, aka sharepoint. We are looking for a version control, moderator rights (or power users), drag&drop ability, widget or plugins, authentication, etc. To me it sounds like we are creating a local website to announce events, forms, request, while act as file share as well.
We assigned one of our dev to do a test run on sharepoint (free). His report is that it is difficult to maintenance. He said that some features he need are only available on the paid version. I don't know if I should try sharepoint myself just to see what he meant, or go with what he said.
So now we are going to have a demo with another vendor (https://www.interact-intranet.com/product/features/intelligent-intranet/). This intranet is not my project, but I feel that we are missing out on something. Paid version is not a problem as long as we receive support as well, thus sharepoint which is only for license is excluded (or at least that's what I think why it is excluded).
@Carnival-Boy said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
Why don't you want to use Sharepoint? It's free for the functionality you've listed, I believe.
Because the feature we want required paid Sharepoint. Fre version is not enough
@scottalanmiller said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
@LAH3385 said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
@scottalanmiller said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
ownCloud is, I think, the closest for you and is fully free and I have a deployment guide to follow for getting started.
Alfresco is decent for a lot of the web functionality of Sharepoint.
can you share the link.
http://mangolassi.it/topic/8399/installing-owncloud-9-on-centos-7/
Does it has to be CentOS? I now ownCloud9 no longer support Windows natively
@scottalanmiller said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:
ownCloud is, I think, the closest for you and is fully free and I have a deployment guide to follow for getting started.
Alfresco is decent for a lot of the web functionality of Sharepoint.
can you share the link.
We are looking for something similar to Sharepoint,
Our goal is an on-premise solution which can act as sharepoint/dropbox (where files show revision) and the ability for us to assign moderator to each group/department. We prefer something that might cost less while deliver certain degree of functionality (such as drag&drop for uploading files, revision, moderator/admin per Folder/group, etc) I know this is quite vague, but if you know any program that does this
@Vladimir-Eremin said:
I'd stick to the option number 2.
If you can't get a paid product license, you can still a free edition. With small tricks you can even schedule backups there. Some time ago I've written a blog post regarding it; might be worth checking.
Thanks.
I am a noob when it comes to PowerShell. Great post btw.
Question: Do I schedule it on hypervisor or within VM?
Can we get back to the Preferred suppliers topic? I'm following this thread to get the answer I will have to look into Softmart when an opportunity arise.
@Jason said:
@LAH3385 said:
I can approve of this statement. One of our senior manager's entire outlook data (archived) is about 40GB in size. We use hosted exchange so we cannot simply achieved it anyway else.
You can still archive with an archive with hosted exchange.
We have compliance archive for all emails in and out bound. What user decide to archive from their Outlook is their choice.
About size of SSD. There's no real answer as to how much is too much or too little. I supposed the more the better consider the price is not much different between 128 and 256GB. 512GB is ideal if it is on sale or discounted.
@Jason said:
No data at all on local computers? What about your outlook profile? That's always local and can easily be 50GB+..
120GB will not do. Not for us. Maybe if all you install is windows and office that's fine.
I can approve of this statement. One of our senior manager's entire outlook data (archived) is about 40GB in size. We use hosted exchange so we cannot simply achieved it anyway else.
@FATeknollogee said:
@MattSpeller said:
Dell, i5, 8gb, small ssd = happy users
I avoid the small form factor cases because they don't have good airflow.
Average price is $??
What size SSD?
Our recent purchase with Dell (using coupons) is $450 for Optiplex 3020 i5-4590 + After market Samsung 850 Evo 250GB ($50) + additional 8GB memory stick (12GB total) ($30). I did a lot of shopping research and Newegg just happen to have samsung 850 on their daily eggshocker thing. Don't expect to get this price at this moment. Might be around $650
@Dashrender said:
@Jason said:
@MattSpeller said:
Dell, i5, 8gb, small ssd = happy users
I avoid the small form factor cases because they don't have good airflow.
Small SSD? You can get after market 512gb for around $100
Why spend $100 when $60 will do for a 120 or even 256? By company policy, no one is suppose to have any data on the local machine. My new Windows 10 images take around 25 GB, anything more than that is just a waste of space and money.
True that no one should have anything on their local, but some LOVE to put stuff on their Desktop. I overcome this with VeeAM backup on to their secondary hard drive. We don't have folder relocation policy yet.
@MattSpeller said:
@LAH3385 said:
@MattSpeller said:
@LAH3385 said:
That is not possible in my situation. The VM must on online 24/7. Order from higherups.
0.o
Good luck with that
LOL Yeah it sucks. Your idea is spot-on perfect. Too bad I cannot take it down.. not even restart.
You're screwed man lol not even Amazon can do that
Veeam Baremetal is probably the option at the moment. Looking into Unitrend for a better solution.
@MattSpeller said:
@LAH3385 said:
That is not possible in my situation. The VM must on online 24/7. Order from higherups.
0.o
Good luck with that
LOL Yeah it sucks. Your idea is spot-on perfect. Too bad I cannot take it down.. not even restart.
@Dashrender said:
You can do the bare metal back of the VMs by simply turning them off and then copying the VHDX's to your backup location.
I'm sure someone can point you to a free online backup solution, but currently the only thing that comes to mind is Unitrends Free.
Though, can't the EndPoint version of Veeam backup the entire thing from the inside? So it won't be a VM backup, but it would still be a bare metal type backup that you can restore after you recreate the base VM.
Looking into Unitrends now.
@MattSpeller said:
@Dashrender said:
You can do the bare metal back of the VMs by simply turning them off and then copying the VHDX's to your backup location.
I'm sure someone can point you to a free
onlinebackup solution,Set VM's to power off every %time% and create script to copy them at %time%+1min to backup location of your choice.
That is not possible in my situation. The VM must on online 24/7. Order from higherups.
