OneCare on laptops

[Max-2009]

I have a laptop and feed many letters to my print queue whilst away from the
office. OneCare does not have the facility to turn off the repetitive
prompting until I clear the queue at the end of the day, or week if I have
been travelling. Is there a workaround for this, as my laptop does not see
this as a problem.
Regards,

Max

 

[Stephen Boots MVP-Windows Live]

I have a laptop and feed many letters to my print queue whilst away from the
office. OneCare does not have the facility to turn off the repetitive
prompting until I clear the queue at the end of the day, or week if I have
been travelling. Is there a workaround for this, as my laptop does not see
this as a problem.
Regards,

Max

The place to discuss OneCare would be the OneCare forums here:
http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsOneCare/

That said, the answer for you is that this is not something that can
be controlled by you. This is a setting monitored by OneCare as part
of Performance Plus, meaning that it is looking to improve the PCs
reliability and performance. OneCare will nag you until the print
queue is cleared.
-steve

 

[Bill Sanderson]

Thanks!

As an aside, I might just point out that OneCare is going to be rolled out
in a bigger way in small business situations--I'm doing it in an office of
about 25 people, for example--because of the incorporation of the Server
version in SBS-2008. This issue will probably be one I hear about from my
users, and it would be good to get this information back to Microsoft
because if we can't disable the behavior in some way, it will lead to
dissatisfaction with the product in this setting.

 

[Stephen Boots MVP-Windows Live]

I don't have experience with the SBS environment, Bill, but as I
understand it, if the site is using OneCare for Server on SBS 2008
with the 25 seat OneCare license, the firewall of OneCare is not used.
OneCare will defer to the firewall of SBS. If, however, the site
chooses to use OneCare for server and individual 3 PC retail licenses
(in a non-domain environment - at activation, if OneCare sees that the
PC is a member of a domain for SBS, you can only activate the SBS 25
seat subscription...) the OneCare firewall is in effect.
I believe that there are some other differences when OneCare is
installed in that environment to allow for management via the domain.
-steve

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I can't tell yet.

I don't have sbs-2008 bits, so I am running OneCare for Server on a trial
Server 2008 which is not joined to the domain at the moment. The domain is
sbs-2003 premium--using ISA firewall.

The pc's are gradually using trial licenses, but I gather my only choice is
to buy retail 3 pc boxes, and I'll do that before the trial is up. We plan
to buy a new server and migrate to SBS 2008 at approximately the release
date.

SBS 2008 does not include ISA firewall, and since I wasn't part of the beta,
all I have to go by are product descriptions and a click-through demo, which
I haven't spent too much time with.