Cool. Thanks for the update.

I just followed this:
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/907-gpo-to-push-out-local-administrators-across-a-domain

Two minute job and I'm all sorted.

Hope he comes up with the proposed solution soon! Would be great to see a server monitoring tool with dashboard which matches the existing trends 🙂

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@garak0410 so it is working now?

Yes...still have to use the FQDN when using remote desktop VIA VPN but it is working.

Sounds like your DNS suffix search order's screwy or not defined.

@jasonh : Thanks for sharing. Intel and SamSung are pretty much the leaders in the market. (Recent Gartner report June 13, 2014)

SSD Revenues

Samsung $3.1b in revenue leads SSD sales - majority of revenue is attributed to PC SSD Sales. At #2 is Intel($1.4b), #3 is SanDisk($1.3b), #4 Micron($0.8b), #5 Toshiba ($0.6b)

In the enterprise, the SSD reliability reality may TOO match the report:http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/gartner-report-places-ibm-pure-storage-atop-2013-all-flash-array-market/ . Look forward to hearing from enterprise users of SSD (server admins, non PC users).

Enterprise SSD Revenues

Total sales $4.4b, Hyperscale customers are purchasing low-cost SATA SSDs in huge volumes whereas Storage Manufactures are buying higher quality SAS SSDs. SATA SSDs: Intel lead producer of enterprise SATA SSDs, followed by Samsung, Smart Storage, OCZ and SanDisk. SAS SSDs: WD is #1 is SAS based SSD market followed by SanDIsk, Seagate, Toshiba and Hitachi PCIe SSDs: FusionIO is #1 followed by Google, NetApp, LSI and WD at #5. NOTE: Google, NetApp and Hitachi use their own PCIe SSDs within their own data centers - no external enterprise customers

With SanDisk's recent acquisition of FusionIO, they may pose a threat to Intel's SSD market.

@Dashrender said:

OK weird.. This one didn't let me edit it.. I choose reply and it made my text from the reply part of the OP.

Oh, interesting. I wonder if that normally works.

You don't have another laptop on site that you could duplicate that with no local admin rights, the adapter can be turned off but not on? I would be really curious of the results!

@NetworkNerd said:

@alexntg said:

@NetworkNerd said:

I'm about to create a VM for our Estimating department to use to access a particular software. The company only wanted to get one seat, and as most know, a single seat tied to a specific computer is cheaper than network licensing most of the time. Basically this VM will run Windows 7 / 8.1 and allow one user at a time to login and use the program via RDP. We don't use VDI in any way. Other than the fact that this will be a VM, it is literally no different than having a desktop computer that is always online.

My CDW rep is telling me I need a license of Windows 8.1 Enterprise rather than Pro so I can leverage the VDA usage rights. I thought I just needed a license of 8.1 Pro (open license, not retail) to cover the requirements here. Can someone straighten this out for me?

Correct. You'll either need to pick up a VDA license (recurring annual) for the desktop VM instance or put the computers that will be accessing it under SA (recurring annual), which would also grant them Windows 8 Enterprise. Otherwise, running a Windows desktop OS in a virtual environment would be out of licensing compliance.

And if I get a VDA license for the VM, does that then entitle me to a full install of Windows 7 / 8 / 8..1 on that VM even though through open licensing I am being sold an upgrade license? Or must I have a fully-licensed underlying desktop OS from which I am "upgrading"?

The full OS. VDA is designed for use with non-qualified accessing devices such as thin clients.

Just now found another http://scoutapp.github.io/scout_realtime/

i have some gpo in my domain, but for a long time not recently

Well that's a good point.

Hi @JaredBusch you absolutely understand what i'm trying to do but I already done with this project.

but anyway thank you for your reply i really appreciate it. maybe a few weeks later i will ask again for your help. hahaha

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller I love these retro finds...good stuff.

I watch several of these a day now 🙂

@IT-ADMIN said:

don't you use windows IP PBX like 3CX

No. We can if customers want to work with it. We've have experience with 3CX but it is not cost nor feature equivalent to Elastix, FreePBX, PIAF and others. The use if Windows as a base severely limits it's applicability.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That's very odd. I'm surprised to see any concurrency issues with NFS in that way.

I know and that's what has me puzzled. I'm firing up a Linux system in the morning to eliminate it being a problem with the Unix systems. I only have to hang onto them for about another year and they are done, our software won't be supported on Unix any longer for this particular customer so those boxes are loosing relevance quickly.

What non-Linux UNIX do you run?

I have 1 SunOS 5.9 and 1 5.10 system. Just took a even older system offline last week.

Wow. On Sparc I hope.

I believe they are. Whatever Ford required us to have in order to test our software that they use in Production OEM settings. That changes at the end of the month, they are switching to all Windows x64 systems. We have to maintain these two boxes long enough to satisfy legacy support for a few other customers but they've also been put on notice to migrate their Solaris software to Windows, because we've for the most part stopped building new releases for Solaris because all of the major CAD vendors have stopped supporting *nix and are only releasing Windows software.

I have been through many adventures and journeys when it comes to taking notes. I have used everything from a golf pencil and a memo pad to a full notebook with a gel ink pen to OneNote on the computer, and I guess it really depends on how prepared you are and how many notes you need to take.

I used to use pen and paper all of the time. In fact, I still carry around a memo pad and a pen with me everywhere. Since I've been taking notes more at my desk, I've been conforming to using OneNote. I also carry a Venue 8 pro tablet around with me with a bluetooth keyboard while on travel so that I can take the appropriate notes there when I am at a client's building or just working remotely. I have that linked into my OneNote notebooks as well and can seamlessly add notes where needed. So far this is working quite well for me because my handwriting is terrible and I can type faster than write, so I can record more information.

I do still have at least five types of paper to write on on my desk though.

@JaredBusch said:

@alexntg said:

@JaredBusch said:

@alexntg said:

That's a pretty good piece of mind for $6k annually.

Not for the current clients I have, that is too much. The 1k price is solidly acceptable. the 3k would be a big maybe but likely not.

I looked down near the bottom line. @NetworkNerd , unless I'm missing something, the entry level one's manual reporting?

Manual report paid for by the hour it seems like.

Yep - they have to generate the reports for you.

In OneDrive for Business, if you go to the gear button, then Site Settings>Storage Metrics, you can see the storage info.