Question about MP affinity in a multi-forest scenario without AD publishing

I am looking at deploying an SCCM system that will feature multiple forests and the caveat of NOT being able to use any sort of AD publishing or schema extension. Knowing this, and that
clients will use the MP residing in their forest by default...
When AD publishing is not leveraged, will a client in a remote forest use the MP located within its forest?
If true, does this become a single point-of-failure when the client can't communicate with the MP in its forest?

AD publishing does not affect affinity at all. AD Publishing simply provides a "boot strap" location method where a client can find an MP if it has no knowledge of any MPs in the site. However, the choice of which MP to use is never based upon
this boot strap location from AD. Clients always query an MP to determine which MP to use (thus the need for the boot strap process otherwise you're stuck with chicken-egg).
Also remember that this is just "affinity" and thus not truly guaranteed although in nearly all cases that I've seen/sued this, it does follow the affinity pretty well.
Jason | http://blog.configmgrftw.com | @jasonsandys

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Questions on Multi forests scenario

Hi All,
One of our customer raised the below questions:
Environment
Forest A
Domain (Contoso.com)
User accounts
Exchange 2010 + UM role
Forest B
Domain (Fabrikom.com)
Lync 2013 server with EV enabled.
We have Two way Trust and FIM in place.
Questions
Is there any restrictions on functionality when setting up User\Exchange in one forest and Lync in another forest with a two way trust and FIM?
With the two way trust, can the permissions\access to resources and service in Forest A be restricted from Forest? and is this support in the aforementioned design ?
Please advise. Many Thanks.

Hi,
Base on my knowledge, it is the supported scenario to deploy User\Exchange and Lync Server in different forest.
you need to establish a two-way trust between the resource forest and user forests to enable distribution group expansion when groups from user forests are synchronized as contacts to the resource forest.
Best Regards,
Eason Huang
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Question about reinstalling leopard from a multi-user disc.

I upgraded to leopard and my my pro tools recording setup ceases to work, so i need to downgrade to tiger for a while until Digidesign supports Leopard. My problem lies in the fact that me and my buddies bought the five user pack, now... if i try to install the disc again when it is supported, will I run into problems being able to install it, or will my computer somehow already be registered as having used the disc before? AND I lost my tiger disc, so is it possible to use someone else's tiger disc to downgrade, or can I do it without a disc?

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Questions about the difference between RFC calls with and without JavaProxy

Hello,
I have a two questions:
1. Why is it more user-friendly to access SAP data in conjunction to plain JCo calls as explained here http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/79/c6213e225f9a0be10000000a114084/content.htm? Waht's exactly the reason for?
2. What's exactly the runtime shown in the picture here http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/ed/897483ea5011d6b2e800508b6b8a93/frameset.htm?
Regards,
Armin

Moin Armin,
from what I understand from the first link, SAP is probably trying to say that it is user friendly because not everyone needs to be concerned regarding the actual JCo calls to the SAP backend. Rather they can simply work with the generated proxies as if they were actually working with the SAP Tables. The mapping, JCo calls and data transfer is taken care of by the Enterprise Connector.
For instance, you can generate proxies of the BAPIs on your side and let 10 users work with the structures and tables and when it is deployed, the JCo calls are automatically taken care of (from the SLD).
The figure in the second link just shows the runtime to illustrate that the native calls are hidden (again probably the same point I made before).
I am not sure, just my interpretation
Bye,
Sameer

Question about data migration from one company to new without transactions

Dear All,
My company is using SAP B1 2005B. I would like to create new company which is based on existing one, including all configuration, chart of A/C and BP records and so on. May I know how to do it?
From Samson

I tried it and i got the runtime error with "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library"
When I tried a part of options, that is no problem at all. However, when i select all options, the memory usage is increase and then the error will be returned.
The server is Win2003 with 4GB memory.
From Samson
Edited by: samson leung on Sep 21, 2009 6:40 PM

Noob question about launching apps

Greetings all,
Just made the switch to a Powerbook with OS X Tiger, and have a question about launching applications; specifically how to do so without using the mouse. On my Linux boxes (one at home, one at work), I do most of my work from the keyboard, without resorting to the mouse, even in Gnome or KDE.
In Tiger, I can select applications on the desktop, but haven't been able to figure out how to launch them without "clicking"... I've Googled and searched these forums, but no luck so far. Under Linux, it's the Enter key. I assume in Tiger it's some key combination...
I know there's probably a simple answer, but I've not been able to happen upon the appropriate key combo it at random, so I thought I'd ask the experts.
Be gentle, I've only had my PB a week!

To help you in your quest to keep your hands on the keyboard you should check out apps like LaunchBar and Quick Silver. Your hands will never (well... rarely) leave the keyboard again.

Questions about the IDE

Hi all,
I have some questions about the IDE's Help menu.
First, without peaking....
1. Why would you click the Help menu?
2. What would you expect to find there?
Now, you can peak
3. Is there anything in the Help menu that surprises you (gee, I never would have thought to look there for that)?
4. What is missing?

That's a reasonable dividing line. I don't know the official reason myself,
but I'm glad there are now two forums because I will not lurk on the Flash
Builder forum because I don't write any of the code for Flash Builder and
therefore have no "expertise" there.
I do write code that goes in the Flex SDK and generally know who to bug
about other code in the SDK I haven't written so if one of my colleagues is
really busy and not paying attention to forum postings I can point them to
unanswered posts in their domain of knowledge.
I would offer that the dividing line is really whether you are having
trouble with the tools, including the code generated by the tools, or
whether you are having trouble understanding with the components and
infrastructure in the SDK.
One cross-over point would probably be profiling. Even though I didn't
write the profiler for Flash Builder, I have lots of experience using it so
if you are debugging memory leak or performance issues I would ask those
questions on this forums. If you are having trouble getting the profiler or
debugger to run, though, ask that on the Flash Builder forum.

Questions about Prompts -

Hi,
I have two questions about Prompt.
1) We have a dashboard with multiple tabs - We have noticed the Prompt Values copy from one tab to another. User doesn't want this to happen. Every tab should have there own default. Is it possible that previous tab prompt value should not copy to another tab prompt.
2) Is there a possible to have a prompt with Multi Select and Enterable field.
Thanks,
Poojak

hi,
Please see the answers below
1)You can set the dashboard prompt scope to 'Page'.In this way it will affect reports present only on that page
2)you can make a dashboard prompt 'Multiselect'.By default it will be drop down.If you go to your prompt there are options for these configuration.
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Important conceptual question about Application Module, Maximum Pool Size

Hello everyone,
We have a critical question about the Application Module default settings (taking the DB connections from a DataSource)
I know that on the Web it is generally suggested that each request must end with either a commit or rollback when executing PL/SQL blocks "directly" on the DB without the framework BC/ViewObject/Entity service intervention.
Now, for some reasons, we started to develop our applications with thinking that each Web Session would reference exactly one DB session (opened by any instance taken from the AM pool) for the whole duration of the session, so that the changes made by each Web session to its DB session would never interfere with the changes made by "other" Web Sessions to "other" DB sessions .
In other words, because of that convincement we often implemented sort of "transactions" that open and close (with either commit or rollback) each DB session not in/after a single HTTP request, but during many HTTP Requests.
As a concrete example think of this scenario:
1. the user presses the "Insert" button. An HTTP request is fired. The action listener is executed and ends up with inserting rows in a table via a PL SQL block (not via the ViewObjects API).
2. no commit or rollback after the above PL/SQL block is done yet.
3. finally the user presses a "Commit" or "Rollback" button, firing the call to the appropriate AM methos.
Those three requests consist of what I called "transaction".
From the documentation it's clear that there is no guarantee that the couple AM istance + DB session is the same during all the requests.
This means that, during step 2, it's possible that another user might reference the same "pending" AM/DbSession for his needs and "steal" somehow the work done via PL/SQL after step 1. (This happens because sessions taken by the pool are always rolled back by default.)
Now my question is:
Suppose we set the "Maximum Pool Size" parameter to very a great number (always inferior to the maximum number of concurrent users):
Is there any guarantee that all the requests will be isolated in that case?
I hope the problem is clear.
Let me know if you want more details.

Thanks for the answers.
If I am right, from all your answers about resource avaiability, this means that even supposing the framework is able to always give us the same AM instance back from the AM pool (by following the session-affinity criterias), there is, however, no "connection affinity" with the connections from the DataSource. This means that the "same AM instance" might take the "a new DB connection", if necessary, from the connection pool of the DataSource. If that happens, that could give us the same problems as taking "a new AM instance" (that is, not following session-affinity) from the beginning, since each time an a new connection is taken (either via a new AM instance or via the same AM instance plus a new DB connection), the corresponding DB session is rolle back by default, clearing all the pending transactions we might have performed before with direct PL/SQL calls bypassing the AM services during the life cycle of our application, so that the new HTTP request will have a clean DB session to start to work with.

Basic questions about programing for J9 VM

I need to create a java application to run on a Pocket PC 2003 OS and I'm limited to using IBM's Websphere J9 Virtual Machine. I'm new to using java in this capacity and therefore have lots of questions which I'm guessing are pretty basic. Despite my best efforts, I've found very little to help me online. Below are a couple questions I have that I'm hoping someone can help me with. Even better, if you know of any resources that could help me with these and other questions, I'd love to have them. Thanks in advance.
1. I'm using standard AWT for the GUI but I'm having problems getting frames, dialogs, etc., to come up in anything less then full screen. setSize() and resize() have no effect, even if I extend the frame and override the setMinimumSize, setPreferredSize, setMaximumSize methods. What do I need to do to get a child window to appear in something less than full screen?
2. I'd like to be able to add menu's to the buttom toolbar (with the keyboard) but have no idea how I would add something to it. Can someone point me in the right direction?
3. When my application gets an iconified event I go ahead and call a System.exit() to exit the application. This doesn't kill the java VM though, which continues to run in the background (taking up plenty of memory). If I run my application using the J9w.exe so that it runs without the console, then not only does the VM continue to run, but I have no way to stop it (the running program list can't see it). Since each time I run my application it starts a new VM, it only takes a couple of times before I'm out of memory and have to do a soft reset of the PDA to make things right. Can I kill the VM when I kill my application?
4. I learn best by looking at example code, but have been unable to find any code people are running on J9. I have the GolfScoreTracker installed and running on my PDA, but the jar file contains only the classes. Since it's supposed to be a demo, I had hoped that the source code would be included, is that hoping too much or is the source code available somewhere? In addition, if you know of any applications out there with available source code that are known to run well on a PocketPC J9 environment I'd appreciate the link.

Hi there, I saw your questions, im currently developing a java pocket pc application as well and here's what i go so far:
AWT seem to be hard to use on pocket pc, instead i recommend that you use SWT, which is a technology developed by eclipse. It's already installed on the eclipse plugins, you just need to download the jar and dll files for the pocket pc. They are available at: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/index.php
I assume that you already have the J9 working on your device. So you only need to copy the SWT.jar file and the swt-win32-3064.dll to the folder containing the .class files on your device.
Now, on your java IDE(im using eclipse) Add the SWT.jar library to your project which should be on C:/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.swt.win32_3.0.2/ws/win32/swt.jar or something like taht depending on your eclipse root.
Now you are ready to code some SWT, here is a sample program from Carolyn MacLeod, i modified a few things so it could run on the pocket pc but it's almost the same. Once you coded in eclipse run it, then copy the class file from your desktop to your device(There should be like 4 or 5 classes like sample.class, sample$1.class etc. copy all of them) where you put the jar and dll files(If program does not run you may try to rename the dll file for swt-win32-3050.dll instead of 3064.dll). Now after you have everything set up you need to create the lnk file in order to run the program. On your desktop create a new textfile and write the following on it:
255#"\Archivos de Programa\J9\PPRO10\bin\j9w.exe" "-jcl:PPRO10" "-cp" "\My
Documents\Java\swt.jar" ;\My Documents\Java" sample
Paths depend on your install, and the place where you put your classes and jar file. path for j9w is usually "\Program Files\J9\PPRO10\bin\j9w.exe", and the last word should be the classname.
Currently this form only displays an image on a canvas, click on the browse button and choose a pic and it will display on the canvas. Im trying to connect the form to an oracle database but no success yet on the device.
Hope it helps, if you have any questions about the code or something, and I know the answer, please feel free to ask.
See ya
import org.eclipse.swt.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.*;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.*;
public class sample {
static Shell shell;
static Display display;
static Text dogName;
static Text textdb;
static Combo dogBreed;
static Canvas dogPhoto;
static Image dogImage;
static List categories;
static Text ownerName;
static Text ownerPhone;
static String[] FILTER_EXTS = {"*.jpg"};
public static void main(String[] args) {
display = new Display();
shell = new Shell(display, SWT.RESIZE | SWT.CLOSE);
Menu menu = new Menu(shell, SWT.BAR);
shell.setText("Dog ShowS Entry");
shell.setMenuBar(menu);
GridLayout gridLayout = new GridLayout();
gridLayout.numColumns = 3;
shell.setLayout(gridLayout);
new Label(shell, SWT.NONE).setText("Dog's NameS:");
dogName = new Text(shell, SWT.SINGLE | SWT.BORDER);
GridData gridData = new GridData(GridData.HORIZONTAL_ALIGN_FILL);
gridData.horizontalSpan = 2;
gridData.widthHint = 60;
dogName.setLayoutData(gridData);
new Label(shell, SWT.NONE).setText("Breed:");
dogBreed = new Combo(shell, SWT.NONE);
dogBreed.setItems(new String [] {"Collie", "Pitbull", "Poodle", "Scottie"});
dogBreed.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.HORIZONTAL_ALIGN_FILL));
Label label = new Label(shell, SWT.NONE);
label.setText("Categories");
label.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.HORIZONTAL_ALIGN_FILL));
new Label(shell, SWT.NONE).setText("Photo:");
dogPhoto = new Canvas(shell, SWT.BORDER);
gridData = new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH);
gridData.widthHint = 60;
gridData.verticalSpan = 3;
dogPhoto.setLayoutData(gridData);
dogPhoto.addPaintListener(new PaintListener() {
public void paintControl(final PaintEvent event) {
if (dogImage != null) {
event.gc.drawImage(dogImage, 0, 0);
categories = new List(shell, SWT.MULTI | SWT.BORDER | SWT.V_SCROLL);
categories.setItems(new String [] {
"Best of Breed", "Prettiest Female", "Handsomest Male",
"Best Dressed", "Fluffiest Ears", "Most Colors",
"Best Performer", "Loudest Bark", "Best Behaved",
"Prettiest Eyes", "Most Hair", "Longest Tail",
"Cutest Trick"});
gridData = new GridData(GridData.HORIZONTAL_ALIGN_FILL | GridData.VERTICAL_ALIGN_FILL);
gridData.widthHint = 60;
gridData.verticalSpan = 4;
int listHeight = categories.getItemHeight() * 12;
Rectangle trim = categories.computeTrim(0, 0, 0, listHeight);
gridData.heightHint = trim.height;
categories.setLayoutData(gridData);
Button browse = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
browse.setText("BrowsePic");
gridData = new GridData(GridData.HORIZONTAL_ALIGN_FILL);
gridData.widthHint = 60;
browse.setLayoutData(gridData);
browse.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
     public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent event) {
          FileDialog dialog = new FileDialog(shell, SWT.OPEN);
          dialog.setFilterExtensions(new String[] {"*.*"});
          String fileName = dialog.open();
if (fileName != null) {
dogImage = new Image(display, fileName);
shell.redraw();
Button delete = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
delete.setText("No action");
gridData = new GridData(GridData.HORIZONTAL_ALIGN_FILL | GridData.VERTICAL_ALIGN_BEGINNING);
gridData.widthHint = 60;
delete.setLayoutData(gridData);
delete.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent event) {
Button enter = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
enter.setText("No action");
gridData = new GridData(GridData.HORIZONTAL_ALIGN_END);
gridData.horizontalSpan = 3;
enter.setLayoutData(gridData);
enter.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent event) {
     shell.open();
     while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
          if (!display.readAndDispatch())
               display.sleep();
     display.dispose();
if (dogImage != null) {
dogImage.dispose();
}

Questions about upgrading from Exchange 2010 RTM to Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3

I am preparing to perform an maintenance upgrade on our current Exchange 2010 Server, to Service Pack 3 (and any post-SP3 roll ups), but I have a couple questions about the process.
Current Exchange Server details:
Exchange 2010 Standard
Version: 14.0 (Build 639.21) - from Exchange Management Console
Version: 14.0.702.4000 - from Outook client
Active Directory forest and domain levels: Windows 2008 R2 native
The questions I have are:
1. Can I assume that because it's version 10.0.702.4000 I am on Exchange Server 2010 RTM Update Rollup 4?
2. Can Exchange 2010 Standard RTM be patched directly to Service Pack 3, or would I need to perform incremental patches (i.e. SP1, SP2, etc.) before going to SP3?
3. Do I need to manually perform the AD domain schema prep before applying Service Pack 3, or will the Service Pack 3 update process automatically handle the modifications of the AD schema?

Hi,
Here are my answers you can refer to:
1. Firstly, I’d like to explain , we can use connection status to check our Exchange server version from Outlook client:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-in/outlook-help/determine-the-version-of-microsoft-exchange-server-my-account-connects-to-HA010117038.aspx
And I check my version from both EMC and Outlook client. It’s same.
2. We can directly update RTM version to SP3 , and the update will take an additional 30 minutes or longer per database.
3. Since Exchange 2010 SP3 makes updates to the Active Directory schema, we need prepare AD domain schema. However, it will automatically prepare AD and the domain when you install the update.
For more information, you can refer to the following article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj965774(v=exchg.141).aspx
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.
Thanks,
Angela
Angela Shi
TechNet Community Support

SPNego for multi-forest using IBM JDK

Hi All,
I need to setup SPNego authentication for EP7 and IBM JDK for a multi-forest landscape (2 Active directory domains). There's a guide about how to do this for Sun JDK : https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c771c3d3-0c01-0010-b5b6-86755a2cf778 but I need one for IBM JDK as the login stack mudules are different.
Can anyone supply me with a guide or any helpful information regarding this ? Do you know if it works? I've currently got SPNego working for a single domain.
Thanks in Advance,
Anthony

Jan,
ok, thanks. I will now explain how I think we can help.
Firstly, to be sure you understand - I represent a SAP partner company known as CyberSafe, and we have a product which uses SPNEGO for Kerberos authentication in a browser environment, so my answer relates mainly to our product functionality, and not related to the SAP login module, which has less functionality.
I must also apologise in case anybody reading this thread has an issue with me discussing non-SAP software. My view is that the most important thing on this forum is to help you (the SAP customer) get a solution that meets your needs, and if this involves SAP Partner products as well as SAP products, then that is acceptable.
Firstly, our product does not use the Java implementation of Kerberos. Instead, we use a JNI (Java Native Interface) so that our host based Kerberos library can be used to implement the protocol. This means that any differences between IBM, SUN or any other vendor JDK version related to Kerberos functionality, multi-domain support etc. are not relavent to our product. We support many things in our product which are not supported in Java implementations of Kerberos, so you don't need to wait for new versions of JDK to take advantage.
Secondly, and perhaps more relavent to this discussion is that our login module authenticates the user by decrypting the service ticket received using the key in the Key Table File on the host, and then we map this principal name onto a SAP user id. We then (via. the login module stack) cause the SAP system to issue an SSO2 logon ticket for this user id. The secret is the way we perform the mapping - we are not dependant on UME datasources for this, and I will describe below how we acheive mapping by using an example :
Lets suppose a user is authenticated as user.name@DOMAIN1, the SAP system login module has been setup using domain 2 (Realm = DOMAIN2) and trusted via a key in a key table file, with principal name of HTTP/hostname@DOMAIN2. Then, using normal Kerberos cross realm trust, and cross realm TGTs the browser requests a ticket from AD for HTTP/hostname@DOMAIN2, and this is issued by AD in domain 2 using the cross realm TGT, but the principal name of the authenticated user inside this service ticket is user.name@DOMAIN1. The login module on the SAP server can decrypt the ticket it receives to find the users Kerberos principal name.
So, the login module knows the user is user.name@DOMAIN1, it then has to decide how to determine the SAP user id. Our login module currently supports two different methods of performing this mapping, but we are adding more methods in each release to make the product even more flexible. Currently we support the following methods :
1. Simple mapping - this is where we remove the realm name and convert the principal name to upper case, so in this example user.name@DOMAIN1 would be mapped to a SAP userid of USER.NAME and used to issue an SSO2 ticket. Clearly this is only suitable for single domains, and makes administration very easy - many of our customers use this method, but you would need a different mapping method due to yoru multiple domains.
2. USRACL mapping - Since we also sell an SNC product for SAP GUI SSO, our customers already maintain mapping of Kerberos principal name to SAP user id using a table in ABAP engine called USRACL. This table is maintained using SU01 transaction. We now have support in our login module to read the USRACL table using the authenticated Kerberos principal name of the user (e.g. user.name@DOMAIN1) and find the required SAP user id, so that an SSO2 logon ticket can be issued.
I hope this helps you understand. If you are interested in more detail about our product, and how we might be able to help you, please feel free to contact me offline instead of via this forum.
Thanks,
Tim

VDI in multi forest

Hello everyone,
We have a situation with a Remote Desktop Services with virtual desktops where we are limited in our possibilities. We have a multi forest domain structure with trusts between the forests, some trusts are 2 way trusts, some trusts are 1 way trusts and some
forests have no trust at all.
We are trying to implement a RDS solution with virtual desktops, the servers are in domain 1 and the client VDI VM’s are in domain 2. Our question is in which trust configuration is this supported and is there any documentation?
Our consideration is that we are not flexible and we need a hardware cluster for every forest and it’s getting very expensive.
Thank in forward i hope to get a trustful answer.
Kind regards,
Jasper Sybrandy

Hi,
Sorry for late response. But seems there are no good document regarding your case, but you can refer beneath article.
Test Lab Guide: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Quick Start
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/hh831585.aspx
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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Question about UltraBeat

Hi. I am concidering jumping from Ableton Live to Logic Pro in my home studio. Live has been a great learning software for me in the beginning of my audio endeavours. However, I feel I am ready to take on Logic in the studio and keep Live for, well, live performances.
Anyway, one instrument I am excited about is Ultrabeat. Ultrabeat's oscillators as well as sample playback combined into one interface specificly for drums seems extremely useful. This is one area where my workflow has been struggling lately. I am tired of always sampling as well as using monster synths to make a simple kick.
My question about Ultrabeat is, once you make a hit with an oscillator, do you save it as a sample and load it in another area of the instrument for playback? Or, does it playback entirely from the oscillator? If it always remains in the oscillator, are you able to make several differnt settings with the oscillators and jump between them as you select voices, as well as playback all of them at once? That seems unlikely.
Please enlighten me on Ultrabeat a bit. I tried to download the express demo to toy around with it a bit myself but the link is broken on Apple's site.
Also, if you have an extra moment, please share your feelings of Logic. If I make the jump, will I ever look back?
Thanks for your time!

Wow. Thanks for your helpful reply.
Sounds like I have all I need at the moment and just need to learn to use it to it's full potential first.
I was looking to Logic for:
A: Ultrabeat seems inspiring and useful with the built in oscillators, pattern sequencer, and user interface. I currently have Battery 3 and have been attempting to utilize it well with Live but I can't stand not having a drum map editor to sequence it. I asked for a feature to have the option to choose either a drum map editor or standard piano map editor per midi track. This would be a cozy workflow helper for me. Maybe Live will listen and add this in 7.
B: Surround sound capabilities. I have the Presonus FireStudio and MSR remote so I plan to add rear, center and sub channels in the semi-near future. This may be coming in Live 7 also!
C: Ability to link CPU's for extra DSP.
D: I felt once I really got into Logic that it would likely be more professional quality overall.
F: I have a new Mac Pro Dual 2.66 Intel Core Duo arriving today. I thought Logic would utalize it's power best. I know Live, since 6, is multi-processor aware. However, I'm not sure about the dual core part.
E: Apple has me hypnotized.
Now, since purchasing Live I have also obtained Operator and Sampler. I also have every Native Instrument plug including Massive via Komplete 4.
I also have Wave Arts PowerSuie 5 which gives me sidechaining. I wondered how the Trackplug 5 compressors compared to Logic's.
I was considering selling my PowerSuite 5 and Komplete 4 if I was happy with Logic's instruments. I felt making the switch may be smarter in the long run for studio use. There are certain features in automation drawing that I want that Live does not have as well. I was thinking Logic being considered "pro app" may address some details that Live doesn't today. However, I agree that Live is bug-free and constantly updated. Live may grow as I need it to as I grow as a producer.
Bottom line, I should wait a few months and see what Live 7 offers before i make a final decision.
Thanks for your reply!
I still wouldn't mind more opinions either.

Question about managing application licenses together with netboot

Hello
So far I had made no experience with an MacOSX Server netboot configuration but we plan to introduce it in some weeks. Therefore we are "wondering" how management/assignment of application licenses is working in a netboot configuration. Normally in a local MacOSX configuration licenses for application are in generally assigned on the application (some are bound to a certain user name, others to the CPU ID) and is valid for all users login to the same computer. How and at which time are application licenses (for example MS Office 2004, Adobe Acrobat etc.) assigned in a netboot environment?
Many thanks in advance for any clarification and with best regards, André Müller

Hi Andre,
Is this a technical or legal question Either way it is an interesting question about a major grey-area, and I wonder if anyone has the right answer.
Boiling your question down to specifics, it could be...
I have 15 individual Photoshop serials. I want to run Photoshop off a NetBoot image for 15 simultaneous users. Can I install one serial on the image, and allow 15 users to open Photoshop simultaneously. What if I want to install the image on 20 machines, but only 15 users will ever use Photoshop simultaneously.
There is a technical answer and a legal answer to the question. I don't know if there is a 'right' answer since multi-user installations of titles that are technically possible under NetBoot may not be allowed legally under the user license agreement you committed to on breaking the seal on the software. And these agreements are different for different countries.
Here's the technial answer. Sometime before OSX server 10.0, when Apple introduced netboot technology, developers were advised not to perform network scans checking for duplicate serial numbers when aps start up.
In practice this means you can install software title on your image, activate with a serial number, and it will not conflict with the other identical versions of the same application on other images on the network.
FileMaker Pro is the only software I am aware of that doesn't play by these rules, altthough it no longer checks when the applicaton starts, but when any FMPro network activity is started.
Here's the leagl answer. It depends on the title and the country you are in. The legality is definded under the eulas for the titles concerned. I don't know if the leaglity has ever been tested in a court of law in any country in this context.
The easy way to do the right thing for some titles it to purchase a multi-user serial number, ie. a single number which will work for 5 or 10, 20, 50... etc. users. Fore example, FileMaker has a volume licensing serial number which I beleieve can be purchased in increments of 10 users. However, not all titles offer this option, though, and it's difficult if you need 12 copies and have to buy 20.
Sassafras software http://www.sassafras.com/ sells Keyserver, which may be an appropriate solution. Keyserver tracks installations and authenticates serial numbers to ensure no more than the licensed number of copies can be run at the same time.
I don't think I've answerede your question for you but hope to have expanded the contxt of the question for other suggestions.
Good luck,
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