Active Directory support is worse than beta
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The Buffalo Terastation Pro advertises support for Active Directory.  Unfortunately, it seems the Buffalo Tech rushed the product to market before the engineering people could get AD support stable.  So, Active Directory support is 90% broken.

First, I received my 1.0TB terastation in August 2006.  The device arrived without any AD support at all.  I had to download and install firmware that supported AD.  This was the first sign that something is wrong.  Buffalo had released a product to manufacturing that didn't include its most valuable feature.

Scond, you need to enter Domain Admin credentials to get the Terastation to connect to a Windows AD.  This is normal.  However, if the unit is power cycled, then you must delete it from the console on your domain controller, and join it to the AD again with administrator credentials.  The unit should cache non-admin credentials, but it doesn't.  This is a security problem, since the device always carries around admin credentials.  It is also a usability problem, since any time it's rebooted  AD must be disabled and reenabled over and over again.

Third, in a large AD environment (more than 999 user/group objects), the unit crashes when retrieving the list of user/group objects for the purpose of organizing permissions.  This is not just a limit on the number of objects in a domain, but in a whole forest.  This makes the AD support totally useless for an environment at any mid or large-business.  If you have more than 1000 things in your AD forest, then AD has no chance of working at all.

This NAS box works ok for home use, but be very cautious about buying it for its AD support.
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I've been a satisfied Samsung customer for many years. I've bought numerous video displays, appliances, computer monitors, cell phones, and computer peripherals, but I'm very unhappy with the lack of support for this product. I have an 840 EVO running in a Windows 8.1 laptop. I liked it so much, I bought the 850 for another machine. The latest version of the Samsung Data Migration software hangs for hours and then fails while "Analyzing Source Disk."  The source disk is healthy and less than two years old. That's when I tried to contact support. Unfortunately, Samsung evidently doesn't feel that support for this product should be more than an online FAQ and a manual. There's no interest in helping a customer resolve a glitch with their software. No online chat. No telephone support.

While my experience with Samsung products has been favorable until now, I can't help thinking that Samsung takes its customer's business for granted. They've certainly lost mine.
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Firmware releases and updates break presentations. This occurred on three different occasions, with the last one being the final straw. Support is through email only and responses can take a long time. You are also required to sign up for an account in order to place help tickets. Worked with a gentleman (Lyndon A.) from support who was not able to fix my problem. He seemed more concerned selling me priority support, which is basically the same cost as a Microsoft support phone call. (400 dollars for a call back w/in 4 hours) and closing tickets as soon as possible. We spent close to three thousand dollars on one of their products and we are down on our digital signage and have been for over a month.

I would highly recommenced you try a different solution.
2641133
Bulls*** product. APs do not get discovered automatically. Firmware upgrade not available publicly. No way to reach support. Stay away if you do not  have a100 person in-house IT team.
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The Netgear ReadyNas is excellent for home use. Business use however is a whole other ball game. This Netgear ReadyNas does not work well with windows active control list. Because we did not have a windows active domain at my office, we did not get to try that feature out. The netgear readynas user domain software was just not ready for proper use in a business setting. For example; creating folders within folders of a shared folder using netgear local user domains. You can do it, but you cannot customize the individual permissions within those folders. They all just inherit the permissions from the main shared folder they reside in. For a company that requires more control over their project folders etc... this can be a real problem. And there are better products out there that can do this for about the same price.

The Netgear support staff were great and understanding of this issue and were easy to work with. In the end though I regretably had to return the 314 NAS. The design and construction of the unit is top notch when compared to a synology DS412+ that we also have, it was more reliable and better built. However the synology DS412+ trumps it in the software department.
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I have never been more frustrated in trying to get AOL SE edition and Linkys routers to work smoothly...it is a disaster
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I've tried twice via email to get support from WD and as usual, they're putting the blame on Microsoft rather than providing a fix. Vista doesn't recognize the drive. Yep, time to switch brands!
3548348
I work in the IT industry and this still gave me headaches to setup.  I've been using a windows home server (home built) for quite awhile and it's a much simpler and easier to use system for backups and media streaming/remote access.
75516
After reviewing several router options I have chosen the WRT160N as my new router, actually my main point was to use the DD-WRT firmware with it, partly following several reviews here below and from several forum.
Once I received this router I tried to work with the CD provided but it had a problem to run.
No problem, I had installed some routers in my life and this one didn't take more the 10min to install including wireless configurations.
immediately after installation I saw that I can't upgrade my firmware as this is WRT160Nv2 and it apparently uses "Ralink" CPU and not "BROADCOM" cpu - Ralink is not supported yet in open FW due to licensing :(
In addition, it appears that there is degrading in memory capacity in the versions of the routers that goes by WRT160N!
V1 - 32mb
V1.1 - 16mb
V2 - 8mb
Even more annoying, Linksys do not have a web page for any version other than for v1!
Although I didn't get the actual product I thought I am buying, I started using the wireless with my laptop while my desktop was connected to one of the LAN ports, the results:
1) P2P software causes network disconnects (probably due to the fact linksys reduced the memory to 8MB only), I had to minimize the software configuration in order to stop the disconnects.
2)Signal strength is ridiculous as it doesn't cover all my apartment which is not big. - Update: I got some configuration advise from Linksys support to improve the signle:

Change the Beacon Interval to 50
Change the Fragmentation Threshold to 2304.
Change the RTS Threshold to 2304

- It increased the signal strength... I do not like this solution, as my apartment is small the defaults should have sufficed.

I might return this product to Amazon and replace it with a different wireless router.

Based on all other reviews, I am pretty sure that WRT160N V1 is a solid router (Good hardware & FW can be replaced) - if you order this one, make sure you don't get version 2 (at least until Linksys will have a webpage for it with new FW)
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Okay, so this program does not know the difference between Vista and Windows 7.

I am running Windows 7, which came pre-loaded on my new laptop.  But when I tried to install this software, the installation failed on the grounds that the software thought I was trying to install it on Vista, and "SAS Learning Edition is not supported on Microsoft Vista."
While there ARE anti-Vista warnings everywhere on the software, there was no mention of Windows 7 anywhere.  Some sites even list it as "compatible in all Windows environments except Vista."  Which clearly isn't the case, because it doesn't like Windows 7!

I ended up having to drag this program kicking and screaming through the Compatibility Wizard to install it.  This was no fun.
Worse, during the install it tells me it wants to "register" several file types that are "in use by other programs" and that this "may affect their functionality."  I am loathe to find out what that means, but when I do, you can bet I will come back here and tell you all about it.

So SAS, I seriously hope that the software works without a hitch and that learning it actually helps me get a new job-- otherwise, this experience has been full of FAIL.  :(  You guys really need to make software that runs on operating systems people are actually using nowadays, and not ones from ten years ago.
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Not consistent on Windows 7.  I'd look for another offering.  Support is poor.
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I used ACT! from DOS and early Windows days.  Decided to try it again but when I determined it wouldn't sync with my android phone I'm uninstalling and sending back to Amazon for refund.  BUT...
when I tried to uninstall it won't let me delete the (huge!) database files that I had imported from Outlook.  I contacted SAGE for assistance and they declined to help indicating product is no longer supported, even though the retail box from Amazon clearly states that product includes 30 days free support.
Guess I'll go back to the Outlook system and enterprise server for sync.  Too bad, ACT! is so easy to use, but if it doesn't auto sync to the droid it's not worth it at any price.
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I bought this product because I used Zone Alarm free firewall for many years without much trouble, but this product slowed down my Windows XP machine and prevented Run VNC from working properly.  Also, when I bought it, it didn't work on Vista.  It wasn't until early this summer when a Vista version was finally released and then the Vista version was lacking many features found on the XP version.  But the real kicker was that Zone Alarm would freeze up my Vista laptop for up to 5 minutes at a time.  Their tech support was phenomenally unhelpful as was their knowledge database.  The product made my laptop unusable, so Zone Alarm had to GO.

I bought&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Bitdefender-Internet-Security-Suite-10-0-2-Year-Subscription-for-2-PCs/dp/B000JQLP22/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Bitdefender Internet Security Suite 10.0 [2 Year Subscription for 2 PCs</a>] and have been happy (mostly).

So to recap Zone Labs Internet Security Suite = lousy product support, lousy features on Vista (not what you're paying for), lousy product.  Zone Labs, what happened to you?  We had a wonderful relationship... you made good, free, products and I free-loaded off of you for years.  Then when I spend money on you, you turn ugly.  Bad business model.
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While there are some improvements ar made comparing to windows 7, I will describe the negative aspects that were blocked me from assigning 5 rating.
1) Disks were unreadable for the DVD drive I initially had access to. That laptop was new, like mine, and both were purchased few months ago. Had to ask a friend to help. Finally he made the installation ISO on his PC, an old one.
2) Installation progress and update progress sometimes unobvious - in these moments I just were afraid whether installation will continue ever, like at "Getting Ready" stage of installation.
3) Modern UI apps are quite limited yet. IE for Modern UI don't have compatibility view switcher.
4) Strictly bounding of Microsoft Account to your local Windows account is  bad idea for me, but had to do so to be able to use Skype.
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What a disappointment.  I have a dual-core, 2GHz processor, 2GBytes of RAM, and Outlook 2007 on Vista is too slow to use.  When I try to compose an email, the busy cursor is almost only on.  When it goes out, all that I have to do to bring it back is enter a single key stroke.  It cannot begin to keep up with my typing, and editing a typo is impossible.

I've turned off as much of the indexing, as many of the widgets as I can, disabled all the RSS feeds, etc., but no joy.

At this point, I'm hoping a service pack will fix my problem, but I am not a happy camper.
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This program comes highly recommended by the techies, but the average computer user needs to be aware that Zone Alarms technical support site has very limited and difficult to decipher information.  You don't get even one contact with a customer support representative unless you pay a stiff fee.  Initially, it appeared that Zone Alarm's approach to protection from the nasties on the internet was to deny me all internet access.  I found some helpful information from another ZA user, and I still have ZA installed, but if the company had been my only resource, I would have had to trash the whole program.  Periodically, I still have problems with ZA denying me internet access unless I reboot my computer.
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I started using Acronis about 2005 after using (bloated) Norton Ghost for some previous years. I've used both home True Image (used to be Echo, etc.) and the business Advanced Workstation on two PCs.  The PCs have changed over the years as well.  A few years ago, on the advice of Acronis tech support, I stuck with ABR11 since it was "business grade quality".  The yearly support option to keep current on new versions for ABR11 is quite inexpensive.

ABR11 (and TI) worked just great for years on my a31p Thinkpads/XP Pro PCs.  I used it quite a few times to save my bacon.

When I changed to Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on HP dv8t PCs with SSD C drives and regular D hard drives (I simply do image backups C to D nightly), and ABR kept upgrading to ABR11 (2011), everything got bad -- real bad -- real real bad; I tried both ABR and TI.  The software couldn't keep track of its own licenses.  Backups and/or validations of backups failed -- worse, this was not always reported to me as I requested in the setup; I had to "discover" this in the logs.  The email and forum support is absolutely dismal; don't go there.  The phone support for ABR is pretty decent, certainly more responsive than email, albeit I often got contrary advice from different tech support people.  Look at the Acronis forums, and you will see similar complaints, that is until the moderators take off postings with too many complaints.

I just can't trust Acronis anymore with my backups.  I won't go there, and I think no one should go there.  Their software has gotten bloated, and they just are not capable of fixing and patching their problems.

I now use the Microsoft Windows 7 image backups daily.  I don't like this, but at least I can depend on it.  I would like to have compression, differential/incremental, and password protection options, which Win7 does not offer.

I've looked at just about every other brand of backup -- but I also dig through their forums to see the problems and complaints registered by real users, and I just don't (yet) see why I should pay money to get bad unreliable backups and/or bad service!

I really can't believe -- but I do! -- that we can no longer get decent backups for our Windows PCs.  I have offsite Linode virtual machine that run Ubuntu linux, with regular Linode VM backups, and Linode is truly great for linuxes.  (I also have Ubuntu on our decade-old a31p Thinkpads, used for some backups of backups on our Windows PCs.)  At least I have my email and a lot of docs secured via Google Apps business accounts.

I look forward to soon (a year or two?) being able to have Windows run fast with the software we need on some offsite virtual machines like Linode, with daily image VM backups.  Then I will throw away our PCs, and use smart phones and tablets to communicate with our VMs, and not ever look back at the terrible Windows backup software out there now, especially Acronis ...