Best Plan For Home Office

I'm looking into eliminating my home office land line and going with an Online Number. There are several features I desire and I'm not sure if they will all be able to work together. Below is my list of requirements. Is there a set of options using Skype that will address them all? What will be the pricing?
Receive and make calls to landlines, mobiles, etc. from an Online Number.
Have a voice mail account
When I'm out of the office have the ability to receive Online Number calls on my Verizon wireless phone. I have the Skype app on my Android phone. Would be nice to receive Online Number calls through the app rather than just a call forwarded to my Verizon number, in order to avoid using Verizon minutes.
Have a wireless phone with headset attachement.
Have a wireless phone in my home office that allows for me to talk on my wireless phone to another Skype user and at the same time be able to share my computer screen. In other words, do I have to make all screen sharing calls using my Skype Name on my computer (Skype Name voice + screen share) or can I use the Online Number simultaneously with screen share (Online Number for voice + screen share)? I know, kind of a crazy requirement.
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Cisco Model 870 router for home office connected to WRT160NL wireless router for personal use

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Thanks, Meg.
So would a Verizon device-only iPhone 5S still be the better choice if I plan to use GSM in the US (and not the CDMA part of the Verizon iPhone which would lock me to their service).
Ideally, if I had the device in my hand, I would like to use TMobile's prepaid plan (40$ for unlimited talk, text, and 500 mb of data). Upon getting the phone, couldn't I just discard the included verizon simcard (without my activation) and just pop in the TMobile SIM card since the Verizon device-only instrument comes with the GSM unlocked? ( In other words, I don't have to ask Verizon to unlock the GSM part of the iPhone 5S )
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Were looking for the best method for updating Office 365. We will be testing prior to releasing the version to the rest of the company. We have a couple of methods we're contemplating but looking for any pros or cons for each. We are also
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in oes2 to oes11.
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volumes over NCS. Also I have my iPrint service on two machines,
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create new ones, after that, create every resource as It was on the old ones.
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Antonio.

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If all you have is NSS and iPrint, then you only need to use the miggui (migration utility) for iPrint--or so I think (I do have to followup on this one as I vaguely recall I asked this a while back and there may have been a way to do this without migrating stuff again).
But your NSS data will simply "re-mount" on the OES11 nodes and you'll be fine (so that's why I like the rolling cluster upgrades).
Let me double-check on the OES2 -> OES11 cluster option with iPrint.
--Kevin
Thank you Kevin for your answer.
Finally, I think Im going to proceed using transfer ID on my servers that Im only using NSS over NCS (I only have two machines with one NSS volume)
because it seems that its a good option. I would like to keep old IPs from all the servers, cluster and resources if possible. So, testing this
migration on my test environment it seems that it works fine:
- I use miggui for transfer id between all the machines: physical -> physical and virtual -> virtual. eDirectory assumes new hostname, IP, etc.
the only task "out of the box" is that I have to delete the cluster and regenerate (reconfigure NCS on the new servers) but its pretty easy. This way
I have the two old ips from the older machines and all the ips from the cluster and the cluster resources also. I think that its the best plan.
For the other two machines that has 4 nss volumes and iPrint I must think about a plan. But with those, Im going to proceed this way. I hope
I have chosen a good plan!
thank you so much all for your answers / advices

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This is my first post so go easy on me....please?!
I have moved into a new apartment and am trying to set my network is the best way, but am struggling slightly.
I have a WRT150N and WRVS4400N (Don't ask why I have both) both of which are brand new, 3 wireless-G enabled laptops an wireless Xbox 360 and soon a LinkTheater or Helios media player, and this is my problem;
My apartment is over 2200 sqft and long with two rooms at one end and the lounge and main bedroom at the other. One room acts as my home office and this is where I want all of my network mess and cables to be hidden, but my wireless doesn't seem to like that.
If I have either router in the office I have no little or no signal in the lounge and no signal in the master bedroom, however if I put the router in the lounge then I have a good signal everywhere, including the office. So it seems that the office room is the issue simply for broadcasting. I have tried all of the normal checklists for improving router signals, but nothing has worked well from the office.
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I also have a Buffalo Terastation Live NAS which is part of my network and acts as my print server and main network storage for music etc. and as I really don't want it and the laser printer in the lounge having the main wireless router in the lounge is not the solution.
The apartment building is rigged with fibre optics so I have two internet access points, and I can connect the routers to these and have the same IP address SSID, pass keys etc, and tehrefore when one signal drops out teh other is picked up, but that only gives me internet and doesn't give me access to the NAS and printer which is what I ultimately want.
On version 1.0 of the WRT150N I see 3rd-party firmware can be used to provide a wireless bridge mode amongst other things, but I don't see any other options out there.
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I don't want to swap to Wireless-N as that means I'd need something for all of the laptops.
The internet access points in the house don't seem to be linked to one another directly, but getting a straight answer out of someone here is more trouble than it's worth, so is it something I can check easily, and if so could I link through these do you think? (I don't think so, but I am new to network stuff).
Sorry for the long story....hope someone managed to read it all the way to here!
Message Edited by Gambba on 03-26-2008 04:37 PM

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What is the best hardware for Home Sharing?

What is the best client machine for Home Sharing on my stereo? aka What do I want for Christmas.
Well the CD player is starting to breakdown; that makes two this century. Might be time to replace that whole 5 disk CD player thing and get something to use as a player for music in the living room stereo. Maybe a second unit in the office as well.
How to decide what to buy? Am I selecting the right media server option? I am pretty sure I have a server option but how should I set this all up.
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Brand. Been thinking Apple as iTunes sharing is easy, but would consider another brand if the price and quality supported the idea.
Shortlist. Old PowerBook, an iOS device as client players or a stand alone player with out sharing to it but from it. Haven't looked close to see if they meet the functionality of an old CD player.
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On Hand Gear. My network is running a pair of iMac 24's, iPad gen2, iPhone 3GS 32Gb, iPod gen4 8 Gb, Time Capsule (500Gb), MacMini Server (w/2 500 Gb drives in a RAID 1 config) with SLS. I have several PowerBooks: 17" G4, 14" G3; I could sell or use, USB external CD rw.
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Canada

What does itunes do on a G4?
Will itunes work under 10.4 with iTune 9 on a G3?
So back to the G4 1.67 GHz running 10.5.8 with iTunes 10. Adding Home Sharing to this computer required deauthorising one of the other 5 authorised computers. Also I noticed I must be logged into a user in order for Home Sharing to see the other library... Or atleast that user has to have iTunes running. I logged into my test user account and opened iTunes account as user Tech, found the library on the TC (why doesn't iTunes remember this ?, maybe it has to bee conected to the TC) , shabam the library shows up on the PowerBook G4. Started playing the Tragically Hip , logged out and expected the library to stop sharing but no, I was still able to play from the logged out accout, as long as iTunes was running. Sure enough as soon as I logged back in to that user account and quit iTunes running fron the TC library, the sharing stop. No warning of a connected user though!
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So the story goes that for Home Sharing we stop at G4, G3 not invited to the party. Good thing the Pismo just sold on eBay.
The discussion on Home Entertainment Network over at https://discussions.apple.com/message/15843219#15843219 brings up another thing to test.
Can I stream the same music to multiple locations? Can I play the same music in the office and the living room? How does Apple handle this?
My other thought here is, since the TC has a back up of my music why can't I just play that version. Why do I need to back up my music? Guess I could not back up the Music folder in TC but store the music in the TC.

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As i understood so far, the offset is the value in bits, and size is in bytes. is that correct?
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bets regards,
Andy

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