My Dad, A long time IT Administrator for mainframes would tell me over and over your only as good as your last viable backup. I am religious about backups and copy's of data, especially with big moves like this.

And I second the notion that most if not any of your users do not fully understand what is going to happen. Add on top that almost all are convinced of the "Clouds" ability to retain your data indefinitely. And you have a recipe for disaster.

And you look like the hero too when / if they need that data.

So get a nice external USB 3.0 HDD and dump the data there and save it.

@Ambarishrh

Wow...found it! I have less stored than I thought. Most of the heavy and "not allowed stuff" is on my Google Drive.

Called support weeks ago and after a lot of phone calls and emails, I informed MS that they can close the support ticket.

The issue was that I couldn't use my O365 login (MS business/org account) to log into Microsoft Office Mobile App. It would work with my personal MS account.

They said it was because I had the same address for both. However on the web, or with Android apps such as OWA, Outlook, Word and Excel worked with my O365 Account.

Earlier this week I read an article about new Android Apps and now the Office Mobile app says:

*** Try the new Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps! Now available for Android tablets and phones in the Google Play store: http://aka.ms/worda, http://aka.ms/excela, http://aka.ms/ppta. These new apps replace Office Mobile. **
Microsoft Office Mobile is the Office companion for phones running Android OS prior to v4.4.”

So since my phone is 4.4.2, it's not supposed to work.

@s.hackleman a quick search on MS SQL Security got me

http://www.greensql.com/content/sql-server-security-best-practices

http://www.sqlsecurity.com/

But am sure someone from ML will give your more detailed options. Good luck with your project

@Dashrender said:

@thecreativeone91 said:
So you are, but it's not currently costing you extra. The moment you could use that space for your own business generating equipment they suddenly start costing you money!

Unlikely we'd need it. There's planned room for expansion if needed. our DC is pretty huge as it is. More likely we'd need less space as we move from on site exchange to office 365 and such.

More than just removing Exchange from the iPhone I also run CalCheck.exe against the users Exchange profile from a workstation.

Our users calendars are extremely messy. The physicians calendars are managed/edited/etc by nearly everyone in the office. Those who need it have the required delegation rights.

The biggest time we notice problems is when someone changes or moves an appointment. Exchange appears to maintain the same calendar entry ID and this causes the iDevices to not make the needed change, as they consider there to be no change. To solve this we've told staff that they can not change/move an appointment, instead they must delete the old one, and create a brand new appointment. This seems to have reduced our problems significantly.

For me, once the Exchange logs indicate that the single entry is stuck, syncing never works again. Removing Exchange and re setting it up seems to resolve it quickly. If not, running the CalCheck hasn't failed me yet.

@Dashrender said:

so I'm not 100% sure what you are giving MS when you sign up for the free upgrade?

I believe it's your soul.

@scottalanmiller said:

Fixed it for you. The indent can't be the first line.

Really? Wow that seems odd. I will remember that in the future.

that's what the Skype chat is for!

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Dashrender said:

AXIS

I don't think that's the proper shortening. Most people think of security cameras with that.

Well it is, and it isn't.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2013/06/16/enterprise-management-of-activex-controls-using-activex-installer-service.aspx

I should have written AxIS

I think pruning down the number of moderators, especially volunteer ones would help.

I am not sure if you want to change to last names honestly. Remember that the name you put on the extension would affect the dial by name company directory (if you have that setup) for the PBX.

A receptionist / FOP2 user should be able to start typing someone's name in the filter at the top of the FOP2 console and see their extension pretty quickly after doing that. That should work whether they see the entire name of the person on the actual extension button (as long as the full name is the name on the extension in FreePBX). The full name should show when you hover over the extension button.

And, there is a FOP2 buttons area where you can override what is shown on the buttons in FOP2 (or there has been this option in previous versions). I'm just not sure if making a manual edit is worth it or if the synchronization will break for those extensions.

For SEO reasons, what had prompted this was finding:

./asterisk status asterisk dead but subsys locked

Here is a interesting list of DNS providers http://thesimplecomputer.info/a-list-of-dns-service-providers

That is so awesome. They have been trying to help her for so long! I never even thought of using it for her!

Pleasantly surprised that this news only made the fifth highest thread of the day over there, not a hot topic. For those wanting to follow along, the official response just went up:

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1027590-desktop-social-signup-security-vulnerability

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Thanks - I only used it because I've seen it used other places.

Might be used some places I haven't seen. But in case someone is searching, they would search on FreePBX, not FPBX, I assume. Just in case others are looking for information later.

I can just picture someone saying "I can't get FPBX to work with my OBFN using a VM on ESXi running on OBR10 local disk." And it makes me chuckle a little.

@Dashrender said:

Actually, there is another way.

If you use full disk encryption from day one, once you delete the encryption key you don't have to worry about it.

Any encryption can be broken. That is why the article I linked talks about getting verified information from the vendor.

Some things these days are hard to tell truth from fiction... I figured better safe to ask a few other folks rather than just sit here and stew in my own thoughts. 8-)