Best Practices - Antenna Placement

We have 3 3602Es connected to a 2504 WLC. I was wondering if anyone has advice or a site they can send me with best practices for antenna placement. They are all mounted on the side of a wall, near the ceiling (above everyone's head).
Thanks!

Chris,
Stepping back to RF fundamentals, it tells us dipoles are like circle donuts see the attached. So depending how you arrange the antenna placement you will favor one side or the other.
Case in point if they are installed on the side wall and pointing hoizontaly then you can see you are wasting part of your coverage above and below and not some much left or right.
Cisco recommends dipoles be installed vertically often to ceiling tile for optimal performance.
Hope this helps
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We have an homegrown Access database originally designed in 2000 that now has an SQL back-end. The database has not yet been converted to a higher format such as Access 2007 since at least 2 users are still on Access 2003. It is fine if suggestions
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returns, on hand information for each location or customer grouping, sell-through units information for each location or customer grouping for that given time period, sell-through dollars information for each location or customer grouping for that given time
period, sell-through units information for each location or customer grouping for a cumulative time period (same thing for dollars), warehouse on hands, warehouse on orders, the customer's unique categorization of our product in their system, the customer's
current status code for that product, and so on.
Currently all of this data is stored in a multitude of Excel spreadsheets (by customer, division and time period). Due to overall volume of information and number of Excel sheets, cross-referencing can take considerable time. Is it possible to
set-up tables for our largest customers so I can create queries and pivot tables to more quickly look at sales-related information by category, by specific product(s), by partner, by specific products or categories across partners, by specific products or
categories across specific weeks/months/years, etc. We do have a separate product table so only the product identifier or a junction table may be needed to pull in additional information from the product table with queries. We do need to maintain
the sales reporting information indefinitely.
I welcome any suggestions, best practice or resources (books, web, etc).
Many thanks!

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Best practice for migrating data tables- please comment.

I have 5 new tables seeded with data that need to be promoted from a development to a production environment.
Instead of the DBAs just using a tool to migrate the data they are insistent that I save and provide scripts for every single commit, in proper order, necessary to both build the table and insert the data from ground zero.
I am very unaccustomed to this kind of environment and it seems much riskier for me to try and rebuild the objects from scratch when I already have a perfect, tested, ready model.
They also require extensive documentation where every step is recorded in a document and use that for the deployment.
I believe their rationale is they don't want to rely on backups but instead want to rely on a document that specifies each step to recreate.
Please comment on your view of this practice. Thanks!

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Please comment on your view of this practice. Thanks!
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Sounds like the DBAs are using best practices to get the job done. Congratulations to them!
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I have 5 new tables seeded with data that need to be promoted from a development to a production environment.
Instead of the DBAs just using a tool to migrate the data they are insistent that I save and provide scripts for every single commit, in proper order, necessary to both build the table and insert the data from ground zero.
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The process you describe is what I would expect, and require, in any well-run environment.
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I am very unaccustomed to this kind of environment and it seems much riskier for me to try and rebuild the objects from scratch when I already have a perfect, tested, ready model.
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Nobody cares if if is riskier for you. The production environment is sacred. Any and all risk to it must be reduced to a minimum at all cost. In my opinion a DBA should NEVER move ANYTHING from a development environment directly to a production environment. NEVER.
Development environments are sandboxes. They are often not backed up. You or anyone else could easily modify tables or data with no controls in place. Anything done in a DEV environment is assumed to be incomplete, unsecure, disposable and unvetted.
If you are doing development and don't have scripts to rebuild your objects from scratch then you are doing it wrong. You should ALWAYS have your own backup copies of DDL in case anything happens (and it does) to the development environment. By 'have your own' I mean there should be copies in a version control system or central repository where your teammates can get their hands on them if you are not available.
As for data - I agree with what others have said. Further - ALL data in a dev environment is assumed to be dev data and not production data. In all environments I have worked in ALL production data must be validated and approved by the business. That means every piece of data in lookup tables, fact tables, dimension tables, etc. Only computed data, such as might be in a data warehouse system generated by an ETL process might be exempt; but the process that creates that data is not exempt - that process and ultimately the data - must be signed off on by the business.
And the business generally has no access to, or control of, a development environment. That means using a TEST or QA environment for the business users to test and validate.
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They also require extensive documentation where every step is recorded in a document and use that for the deployment.
I believe their rationale is they don't want to rely on backups but instead want to rely on a document that specifies each step to recreate.
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Absolutely! That's how professional deployments are performed. Deployment documents are prepared and submitted for sign off by each of the affected groups. Those groups can include security, dba, business user, IT and even legal. The deployment documents always include recovery steps so that is something goes wrong or the deployment can't procede there is a documented procedure of how to restore the system to a valid working state.
The deployments themselves that I participate in have representatives from the each of those groups in the room or on a conference call as each step of the deployment is performed. Your 5 tables may be used by stored procedures, views or other code that has to be deployed as part of the same process. Each step of the deployment has to be performed in the correct order. If something goes wrong the responsible party is responsible for assisting in the retry or recovery of their component.
It is absolutely vital to have a known, secure, repeatable process for deployments. There are no shortcuts. I agree, for a simple 5 new table and small amount of data scenario it may seem like overkill.
But, despite what you say it simply cannot be that easy for one simple reason. Adding 5 tables with data to a production system has no business impact or utility at all unless there is some code, process or application somewhere that accesses those tables and data. Your post didn't mention the part about what changes are being made to actually USE what you are adding.

Best Practice for utility in Sol Man 4.0

We have software component ST-ICO of release 150_700 with Patch level 5
We want a Template Selection for Utility industry. I checked in
the service market place and found that 'Baseline Package United
Kingdom V1.50, Template: BP_BLKU150' is available in the above software
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Is there a "Best Practices" guide on setting passwords for HandHelds?
When we create accounts for users, we can either do it one at a time via
ConsoleOne or bulkload, and we usually put in the same temporary
first-time password. This gets them into their PC, portal, etc.
How would this work for HandHelds? I'd like to do the same thing. Who
has done this, what does it take to do, and what do you recommend?
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Jason Doering wrote:
> JimmyV wrote:
>> Thanks Jason.
>>
>> I had hoped to get more feedback from people.
>>
>> Can I implement Password policies on a Handheld just as I can for a PC?
>> Complexity, length, etc?
>>
>
> Have a look at screen shots in the documentation:
> BlackBerry Security Policy:
>
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...9.html#ajla0a2
> Palm Security Policy:
>
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...9.html#ah36cbk
> PocketPC Security Policy:
>
http://www.novell.com/documentation/...9.html#ah36cc6
>
> As stated before, I have my Palm and PocketPC settings to use the
> eDirectory password. This way, it inherits whatever requirements I have
> set for that, and so far my users have preferred this to a separate
> password for their device.
>
> The first time a user syncs a device, it prompts them to enter the
> eDirectory password. If a password already exists on the device, the
> user gets prompted to enter the existing device password and then the
> eDirectory password. In either case, the device password then gets set
> to the eDirectory password. When the eDirectory password gets changed,
> the user will need to enter the old device password and the new
> eDirectory password.
>
Having done the both IP only version and the regular desktop sync I can tell
you that the user administration is probably not similar enough to what you
have been used to with desktops. Most handhelds (of any kind) are not
capable of multiple profiles (multi-user) on the device. So the catch is a
single user and single profile of that user on a handheld is going to have
the device access (NOT THE PROFILE) password set to the eDir password. If
another user were to need to login to the device and the eDir controls are
in place then the device access (power on password) would change to that
user. The profile would not change nor would the devices relationship with
anything it sync's with.
Sorry - long answer and late. This is not a very active forum.

Best Practices for Integrating UC-5x0's with SBS 2003/8?

Almost all of Cisco's SBCS market is the small and medium business space. Most, if not all of these SMB's have a Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 or 2008. It will be critical, In order for Cisco to be considered as a purchase option, that the UC-5x0 integrates well into these networks.
To that end, I see a lot of talk here about how to implement parts and pieces of this, but no guidance from Cisco, no labs and no best practices or other documentation. If I am wrong, please correct me.
I am currently stumbling through and validating these configurations myself, Once complete, I will post detailed recommendations. However, it would have been nice to have a lab to follow instead of having to learn from each mistake.
Some of the challanges include;
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2. Should the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server handle DCHP (as Microsoft's documentation says it must), or must the UC-540 handle DHCP to prevent loss of features? What about a DHCP relay scheme?
3. Which device should handle DNS?
My documentation (and I recommend that any Cisco Lab/Best Practice guidence include it as well) will assume the following real-world scenario, the same which applies to a majority of my SMB clients;
1. A UC-540 device utilizing SIP for the cost savings
2. High Speed Internet with 5 static routable IP addresses
3. An existing Microsoft Small Business Server 2003/8
4. An additional Line of Business Application or Terminal Server that utilizes the same ports (i.e. TCP 80/443/3389) as the UC-540 and the SBS, but on seperate routable IP's (Making up crazy non-standard port redirections is not an option).
5. A employee who teleworks from various places that provide a seat and a network jack, which is not under our control (i.e. a employees home, a clients' office, or a telework center). This teleworker should use the built in VPN feature within the SPA or 7925G phones because we will not have administrative access to any third party's VPN/firewall.
Your thoughs appreciated.

Progress Report;
The following changes have been made to the router in support of the previously detailed scenario. Everything appears to be working as intended.
DHCP is still on the UC540 for now. DNS is being performed by the SBS 2008.
Interestingly, the CCA still works. The NAT module even shows all the private mapped IP's, but no the corresponding public IP's. I wouldnt recommend trying to make any changes via the CCA in the NAT module.
To review, this configuration assumes the following;
1. The UC540 has a public IP address of 4.2.2.2
2. A Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 using an internal IP of 192.168.10.10 has an external IP of 4.2.2.3.
3. A third line of business application server with www, https and RDP that has an internal IP of 192.168.10.11 and an external IP of 4.2.2.4
First, backup your current configuration via the CCA,
Next, telent into the UC540, login, edit, cut and paste the following to 1:1 NAT the 2 additional public IP addresses;
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.10 25 4.2.2.3 25 extendable
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.10 80 4.2.2.3 80 extendable
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.10 443 4.2.2.3 443 extendable
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.10 987 4.2.2.3 987 extendable
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.10 1723 4.2.2.3 1723 extendable
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.10 3389 4.2.2.3 3389 extendable
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.11 80 4.2.2.4 80 extendable
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.11 443 4.2.2.4 443 extendable
ip nat inside source static tcp 192.168.10.11 3389 4.2.2.4 3389 extendable
Next, you will need to amend your UC540's default ACL.
First, copy what you have existing as I have done below (in bold), and paste them into a notepad.
Then, im told the best practice is to delete the entire existing list first, finally adding the new rules back, along with the addition of rules for your SBS an LOB server (mine in bold) as follows;
int fas 0/0
no ip access-group 104 in
no access-list 104
access-list 104 remark auto generated by SDM firewall configuration##NO_ACES_24##
access-list 104 remark SDM_ACL Category=1
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.3 eq 25 log
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.3 eq 80 log
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.3 eq 443 log
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.3 eq 987 log
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.3 eq 1723 log
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.3.35 eq 3389 log
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.4 eq 80 log
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.4 eq 443 log
access-list 104 permit tcp any host 4.2.2.4 eq 3389 log
access-list 104 permit udp host 116.170.98.142 eq 5060 any
access-list 104 permit udp host 116.170.98.143 any eq 5060
access-list 104 deny   ip 10.1.10.0 0.0.0.3 any
access-list 104 deny   ip 10.1.1.0 0.0.0.255 any
access-list 104 deny   ip 192.168.10.0 0.0.0.255 any
access-list 104 permit udp host 116.170.98.142 eq domain any
access-list 104 permit udp host 116.170.98.143 eq domain any
access-list 104 permit icmp any host 4.2.2.2 echo-reply
access-list 104 permit icmp any host 4.2.2.2 time-exceeded
access-list 104 permit icmp any host 4.2.2.2 unreachable
access-list 104 permit udp host 192.168.10.1 eq 5060 any
access-list 104 permit udp host 192.168.10.1 any eq 5060
access-list 104 permit udp any any range 16384 32767
access-list 104 deny   ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
access-list 104 deny   ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any
access-list 104 deny   ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any
access-list 104 deny   ip 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
access-list 104 deny   ip host 255.255.255.255 any
access-list 104 deny   ip host 0.0.0.0 any
access-list 104 deny   ip any any log
int fas 0/0
ip access-group 104 in
Lastly, save to memory
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(config)#ip access-list extended 104
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Best Practices for Using Photoshop (and Computing in General)

I've been seeing some threads that lead me to realize that not everyone knows the best practices for doing Photoshop on a computer, and in doing conscientious computing in general. I thought it might be a good idea for those of us with some exprience to contribute and discuss best practices for making the Photoshop and computing experience more reliable and enjoyable.
It'd be great if everyone would contribute their ideas, and especially their personal experience.
Here are some of my thoughts on data integrity (this shouldn't be the only subject of this thread):
Consider paying more for good hardware. Computers have almost become commodities, and price shopping abounds, but there are some areas where spending a few dollars more can be beneficial. For example, the difference in price between a top-of-the-line high performance enterprise class hard drive and the cheapest model around with, say, a 1 TB capacity is less than a hundred bucks! Disk drives do fail! They're not all created equal. What would it cost you in aggravation and time to lose your data? Imagine it happening at the worst possible time, because that's exactly when failures occur.
Use an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS). Unexpected power outages are TERRIBLE for both computer software and hardware. Lost files and burned out hardware are a possibility. A UPS that will power the computer and monitor can be found at the local high tech store and doesn't cost much. The modern ones will even communicate with the computer via USB to perform an orderly shutdown if the power failure goes on too long for the batteries to keep going. Again, how much is it worth to you to have a computer outage and loss of data?
Work locally, copy files elsewhere. Photoshop likes to be run on files on the local hard drive(s). If you are working in an environment where you have networking, rather than opening a file right off the network, then saving it back there, consider copying the file to your local hard drive then working on it there. This way an unexpected network outage or error won't cause you to lose work.
Never save over your original files. You may have a library of original images you have captured with your camera or created. Sometimes these are in formats that can be re-saved. If you're going to work on one of those files (e.g., to prepare it for some use, such as printing), and it's a file type that can be overwritten (e.g., JPEG), as soon as you open the file save the document in another location, e.g., in Photoshop .psd format.
Save your master files in several places. While you are working in Photoshop, especially if you've done a lot of work on one document, remember to save your work regularly, and you may want to save it in several different places (or copy the file after you have saved it to a backup folder, or save it in a version management system). Things can go wrong and it's nice to be able to go back to a prior saved version without losing too much work.
Make Backups. Back up your computer files, including your Photoshop work, ideally to external media. Windows now ships with a quite good backup system, and external USB drives with surprisingly high capacity (e.g., Western Digital MyBook) are very inexpensive. The external drives aren't that fast, but a backup you've set up to run late at night can finish by morning, and if/when you have a failure or loss of data. And if you're really concerned with backup integrity, you can unplug an external drive and take it to another location.
This stuff is kind of "motherhood and apple pie" but it's worth getting the word out I think.
Your ideas?
-Noel

APC Back-UPS XS 1300. $169.99 at Best Buy.
Our power outages here are usually only a few seconds; this should give my server about 20 or 25 minutes run-time.
I'm setting up the PowerChute software now to shut down the computer when 5 minutes of power is left. The load with the monitor sleeping is 171 watts.
This has surge protection and other nice features as well.
-Noel

Best practices for office 365 SHARED CALENDAR for whole school / organization

hi
we need guidance on best practice for setting up SHARED CALENDAR on Office365 exchange server for entire organization (school)of150 staff.
Requirements
+ all staff should have read only / reviewer permissions on calendar
+handful staff should have editor permissions on calendar
+ the calendar should synchronise custom categories and colors
Current Solution
at the moment we have found that a shared mailbox is the best solution because;
- allusers can add the shared mailbox on outlook 2010as additional mailbox as readonly
- all the categories & colors for the calendarare automatically synchronised because the color categories are stored within this mailbox.
- you can edit calendar permissions in outlook to allow some users as "editor" of the calendar.Problem with Current Solution
the problem however is that the users also need to access this...
This topic first appeared in the Spiceworks Community

Hi Aleksei,
I think Inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online is the feature that you want. This feature makes it possible for you to preserve (store and archive) the contents of deleted mailboxes indefinitely.
A mailbox becomes inactive when an In-Place Hold or a
Litigation Hold is placed on the mailbox before the corresponding Office 365 user account is deleted.
But I'm afraid that it might be impossible to "easily share certain folders or even whole mailbox with people in the company". As can been seen from below articles, this only allows administrators, compliance officers, or records managers
to use the In-Place eDiscovery feature in Exchange Online to access and search the contents of an inactive mailbox:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn144876(v=exchg.150).aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/03/21/preserve-mailbox-data-for-ediscovery-using-inactive-mailboxes-in-exchange-online.aspx
Anyway, this is the forum to discuss questions and feedback for Microsoft Office client. For more details about your question, I would suggest you post in the dedicated forum of
Exchange Online, where you can get more experienced responses:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/msonline/en-US/home?forum=onlineservicesexchange
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,
Ethan Hua
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

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in C05 (Org Model with HR Integration) for Best Practices V1.2007 I have to create a Billing Unit.
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For Creation of the Corporate Account i need a Number Range and a Grouping.
My Question:
Maintaining Number Range and Grouping for Business Partners is described in C03.
In the Solution Builder C03 comes after C05.
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