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  Somebody piss off Trump?

• IT Discussion
  

  A place to talk about whatever you want in IT

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  @scottalanmiller That's the sad truth...

• Water Closet
  

  All the random.....goes here.

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  How did the install go?

• News
  

  News from around the world of IT

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  It is, it's good for the US but for the world, too. This could completely change Internet access across the globe.

• IT Careers
  

  Talk about your career here.

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  @scottalanmiller The enterprise is way more diverse.

  I don't know Scott, I think being in the enterprise means everyone is just a guy who is an expert at 1 skill or app and would be helpless if dropped in a SMB. It's SOOO NARROW and soooo focused!

  Lets look at the life of a dedicated "VDI architect in the enterprise and at how "Narrow" his job is.

  Profile virtualization and layering solutions. Storage (block for image management, and NAS for profiles or app layers) WAN optimization. Nothing breaks ICX, or PCoIP like an incorrectly applied DSCP TAG! TFTP/DHCP as you need to make sure those Zero clients pull down their image! Syslog, and some sort of log analytics platform (LogInsight, Splunk etc) as you'll be needing this to troubleshoot your platform. A hypervisor (and generally to a bizarre level as you'll be invoking features that the server guys don't use, and you'll be hitting the corner cases of scale for things like VMFS when running 200 desktops on a host, or vGPU pass thru). Applications. To deploy non-persistent VDI you'll need to know how to use visualized registries, application packaging (ThinApp, App-V, AppVolumes) and dark corners of the registry sometimes. Customer service! because if you don't know how people are using stuff and be talking to the users problems will brew... How to build training guides as you need to build training materials for your operate trainers to push out. Need to be familiar possible with MDM solutions to cover corner cases where VDI doesn't work as well as how to automate thi Networking. Proper VDI clusters tons of VLAN's and can often invoke some more obscure things like PVLAN's and DMZ's. Security. Get ready to learn NSX microsegmentation and automation. You'll need to learn vRNI or some kind of netflow analyzer to figure out what your ACL's need to look like. Also get ready to learn F5 or NetScaler to do your load balancing and edge inspection. Even if your not the guy managing the firewall rules expect to have to learn it anyways for when your edge security team forgets to open UDP for PCoIP, you'll need to know how to test and verify that the ports are open. DNS. Because NOTHING will work without this. Bonus points for learning GSLB deployments with this so you can do automated VDI failover to the DR site. Antivirus. Since normal regular agent based deployments will break a host, get ready to learn hypervisor based inspection tools and deployments.

  Now it's true that some of these would be handled by other teams, but if you don't know how to explain your ask of those teams (or don't have 100% Competent people in those teams) get ready for your VDI deployment to get stuck for 6 months in ITIL change control hell.

  BTW, I'm only joking. In some shops the VDI guys can often wear other hats too.

• Developer Discussion
  

  Programmers, Developers...

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  You don't know JS free open source book series is probably one of the best resources too. It explains how JS works, other than explaining how to program it in a nice way.
  I think that if someone understand well how a programming language works, then he should know how to program it in the proper way, no? :)

• IT Business
  

  Want to talk about the business of IT? MSPs, VARs, Consultants...

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  @davedemlow said in Scale HC3 cluster for sale:

  SM863

  Samsung Midrange. Not bad actually. Those are closer to 90 cents a GB if memory serves (If Dell Firmware, could maybe get a buck 20 per GB).

• Job Postings
  

  Need to hire someone? Post here.

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  Looking for PC Technicians for a Printer Refresh for this sites below. Please see below job description and let me know if you’re interested:

  6/26/2017 9:15 AM Cornwall NY 12518 Support
  6/26/2017 9:15 AM Yorktown Heights NY 10598 Support
  6/26/2017 12:45 PM Croton On Hudson NY 10520 Lead
  6/28/2017 9:15 AM Congers NY 10920 Support
  6/28/2017 9:15 AM Hopewell Junction NY 12533 Support
  6/28/2017 1:45 PM Newburgh NY 12550 Support
  6/28/2017 1:45 PM Ossining NY 10562 Support
  6/29/2017 9:15 AM Bedford NY 10506 Lead
  6/29/2017 9:15 AM Bedford NY 10506 Support

  Each site above will need mulitple techs and start times cannot be changed.
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  Pay Rate:
  Lead-$100 flat rate (4 hours or less of work)
  Specialist- $75 flat rate (3 hours or less of work)

  Scope Of Work: Client has requested we provide Senior level support technicians to their branches across the country for a printer refresh.

  Lead Responsibilities:
  Manage expectations with site contact
  Manage team, issues and escalations
  Release specialist as the work decreases once printer starts configuration and trash is removed.
  Ensure old assets are properly prepared for disposal shipment

  Specialist Responsibilities:
  Follow lead instructions
  Break down printer boxes
  Ensure old assets are properly prepared for disposal shipment

  Skillset:
  Must pass a criminal background check in order to qualify for this project
  A+, Net+, or MCTS or equivalent classroom training and 3 years related industry experience or minimum of 3-5 years minimum related industry experience
  Pass training materials
  Able to lift 50lbs
  Be onsite on time
  Has their own transportation to and from sites
  Standard technician tool kit. (screw driver, flashlight)
  Smart phone (take pictures as directed)
  If you or anyone you know is interested, please email [email protected]. If you are already scheduled or not interested, please accept my apology in advance. Thanks!

  Thank you,

  Kristin Grojean
  IT Recruiter
  SmartSource Technical Staffing Solutions, Inc.
  Office: 630-607-7191
  Fax: 866-325-7243
  Email: [email protected]

• SAM-SD
  

  The world of enterprise open storage systems.

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  Virtual. And I think I mentioned that buried in one of my posts about it. Or maybe it was the other thread that this split off of.

  KVM, Xen or Hyper-V all work great here. Physical wouldn't be horrible, but no need for it.

• xByte
  

  xByte Support Forum

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  @jt1001001 Awesome!

• Scale Legion
  

  Scale Computing Discussion and Support Community

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  Workspot and Scale have an interview video with Mike O'Neil, the Director of IT with Hydradyne

  https://vimeo.com/190567760

• Starwind
  

  Starwind Software

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  Many IT administrators run their homelabs to test latest technologies and increase their skills. Unfortunately, the main problem here is the lack of RAM. This is the case with VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.5 as its minimal deployment option requires 10Gb of RAM. However, it can be lowered by decreasing VMware VCSA memory size or by disabling services that are rarely used in your environment.

  Read the full article by Vladan Seget, IT and virtualization consultant to learn how to configure VMware VCSA 6.5 to fit your homelab environment.

• AetherStore
  

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  I am waiting on Confirmation from @shannon, @Rob and @aboyd They haven't answered my emails this week at all :(

• MangoCon
  

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  @wirestyle22 said in MangoCon 2017:

  @Dashrender said in MangoCon 2017:

  Have fun everyone, someone drink fireball for me.

  ew

  Resistance is futile.

• Mango Happenings
  

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  @dafyre said in NYC Mango Meetup June 23, 2017:

  @scottalanmiller said in NYC Mango Meetup June 23, 2017:

  @travisdh1 said in NYC Mango Meetup June 23, 2017:

  @scottalanmiller said in NYC Mango Meetup June 23, 2017:

  @travisdh1 said in NYC Mango Meetup June 23, 2017:

  @scottalanmiller said in NYC Mango Meetup June 23, 2017:

  @travisdh1 said in NYC Mango Meetup June 23, 2017:

  @scottalanmiller said in NYC Mango Meetup June 23, 2017:

  Who is recording the talks?

  Well, we all did a little talking.... and I actually had my first drink in a couple of months.

  Did someone record everything?

  Yes, @Minion-Queen had the phone recording for most of the time.

  Oh no, did anyone make her hold it correctly or is the whole thing shot vertically?

  It's all vertical.... so far as you know. Also, I'm tipsy, thanks to everyone at aetherstore!

  Best way to be. About to open some wine here myself, while I make some tater tots.

  Tater tots... cooked in Wine... There's an idea.

  I have more of both...

• Self Promotion
  

  Want to blatantly promote yourself? Here is the place. Go crazy!

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  @scottalanmiller said in Show Some Vendor Love:

  @Grey said in Show Some Vendor Love:

  @scottalanmiller said in Show Some Vendor Love:

  LOL, it's true. Vendors that gave up or screwed the pooch. Pertino did fine they just... left I guess.

  They got bought by Cloudflare. I still use their services for the 'three free' and it works well enough.

  When did that happen? they were with Cradlepoint for the longest time.

  That's right. I misremembered. Too many companies with cloudthis and whatever.

• Platform and Category Issues
  

  Place for tracking issues with MangoLassi and NodeBB

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  @JaredBusch said in Currently Open Community Issues:

  @Tim_G said in Currently Open Community Issues:

  @JaredBusch said in Currently Open Community Issues:

  @Tim_G said in Currently Open Community Issues:

  Oh I haven't seen this thread.

  In reference to: https://mangolassi.it/topic/13346/mangolassi-website-semi-frequent-internal-error

  I think I've figured out the main issue...
  When clicking on a notification, the notification links to, for example: https://mangolassi.it/post/296273
  After that, the browser is supposed to automatically redirect to: https://mangolassi.it/topic/13654/for-the-love-of-ipod/11, which it does in all other browsers and Edge pre-1703 update.
  In MS Edge now (post 1703), after you left click a notification, it takes you to the first link, and gives you my original error. When I middle click to open it in a new tab, it works as normal, and redirects to the second link.

  It gives that error on all Windows 10 1703 devices, on the Edge browser. Pre 1703, the issue does not occur in Edge.

  Can you replicate the behavior on another site such as community.nodebb.com?
  To make sure it is not an issue with how ML is configured.

  Waiting on a reply to test it out: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/10690/notifications-test-please-reply/1

  replied for you.

  Yes, same thing. Left clicking on the notification results in the error message. Middle-clicking (to open it in a new tab) works fine.

  Looks like it's a NodeBB programming issue:

  Same thing... it doesn't redirect to the correct URL after left clicking the notification.

• BIOS
  

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  @gjacobse Bio - IRL Name: Gene

  Not much on doing a self Bio - But I'll see what I can muster up and get online.

  First contact with computers would have been in the mid to late 1970's, it was a Main Frame terminal in the Math and Science Center in Virginia. One of the things we did was play the famous game: Oregon Trail. The 'display' was a line printer from what I can remember. This is in the era of to 'shot' you had to type B A N G. not tap the space bar.

  Getting into high school a classmate who got me remote control cars also started me down the road of electronics - All sorts of mayhem ensued.

  I have run a BBS system, and built PCs in the living room since the earlier 1990s. Spent several years on a Help desk for the State, driven commercial trucks, worked for two non - profits as the sole IT person, supported 18,000 people for a large auto manufacturer.

  And now I work for NTG, one of the best IT companies.

  reserve right for future edits

• Reviews
  

  Have a product or service to review? Love it? Hate it? Tell us.

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  @matteo-nunziati thanks for the info!