@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

PostgreSQL to get precedence today and Oracle to be an afterthought.

Especially considering oracles prices are plain crazy. Though dynamics isn't exactly cheap.

Cost is a factor but not the big one. PostgreSQL is up there in the top echelons of enterprise databases today (it's what IBM ran internally when I was there and IBM owns Informix and DB2!!) and is what most modern development platforms (like Ruby on Rails) as their de facto standard and what most large hosting environments (Heroku, OpenShift) provide as their standard relational database. That is pretty what has propelled it from being a big player to being the database to beat in recent years.

PostgreSQL and SQL Server will likely be the last two big players that matter in the RDBMS space. Even MySQL / MariaDB is fading from the PostgreSQL onslaught these last few years.

The big competition for both is coming from the NoSQL camp, not other RDMBSs.

that @JaredBusch is not too bad of a fella.

@Rob-Dunn said:

You should check out the following regarding GPO settings:
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1390-wsus-gpo-settings-for-the-real-world

With regards to why your computers aren't checking in...well, I have a how-to for that as well!
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/91430-wsus-computers-are-not-showing-up-in-the-console-what-s-wrong

Thanks Rob. I'll check those out tomorrow!

I just want to know when he logs off.

@Rob-Dunn said:

@IRJ said:

@ajstringham said:

I know SolarWinds has some tools that are popular, but they will spam the heck out of you, so beware.

Wait a second... what do you mean they will spam the heck out of you? I use Solarwinds Orion, Solar Winds Network Monitor, and Solar Winds Web Help Desk. I rarely receive emails from them

Probably because you already drank the Kool-Aid. It's the *potential *customers they want.

Yeah, I mentioned it was because i was using the paid version in the next post

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

Is the user getting duplicate reminders in OWA?

Great question!

Is the PST still mapped? I'm guessing now since you mentioned I mentioned redoing the profile.

I think he deleted and recreated the profile. I would think that there is no PST mapped or attached at this point. When he deletes and recreates that profile it pulls mail down from the Exchange Server and builds an OST file.

OWA is a good test since it rules out any local issues with Outlook and Outlook profiles.

That is the HP Business Outlet center. If you only want one, find a Probook in the 6000 series. Get one that matches your specs and get the 3-year support plan, which will comp you your shipping and only cost another $30-40 on top of the cost of the laptop (once shipping savings is subtracted). Their inventory changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour though. If you find something you like, and it's at the price you want, jump on it.

AD is only down for long periods of time because no one notices. If we were monitoring the AD environment closely, which we certainly need to do but it isn't a priority, we wouldn't have those long outages. It's because being down for a week has zero impact that no one investigates the issues until a convenient time or someone notices because they were attempting a ping test or something.

I like it all integrated and together, but that's me.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Whatever is on sale.

They are all pretty much the same now. PNY is another good, standard brand.

They really are. Especially when speed doesn't matter and there are few writes.

I don't know about poor write speeds. Never had issues with them personally.

Don't care about poor write speed either if it is only going to be used for a bootable image. it will only be used read only after it is configured.

Can data be retrieved? Yes.

Will it be worthwhile to do so? Not likely.

As for all of those other accounts my account has access to being in a single profile - maybe it's an Outlook 2013 thing, but they are all there now by default.

I logged into a new computer, setup Outlook 2013 - bam all of those aforementioned accounts show up in the list down the left side.

Perhaps I didn't see them on my desktop because I always have my folder list open and there's enough of them that they push the other users accounts off the bottom...

Thought I would pass that along.

Nope no U3 on it... and like @technobabble I delete anything on the drives before use.

@Mike-Ralston said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm surprised you don't have a conductivity issue - maybe carboard is more electrically neutral than I though?

I was worried about this, so I ran some extra wire and I'm now using the speaker as a ground. Its casing is metal, so it works well. The whole thing is safe, and rather comical.

Well done. Lol

@thecreativeone91 said:

@MattKing I've seen a lot of newer Harddrive cirucits and even some PCI cards coated over with Clear coating, It's called conformal coating and it covers all the comments leads so there is little chance of ESD shock with them.

That's really interesting I'll have to look into that. I wonder if it's becoming more of an industry standard or just some OEM's.

I still dont know what you have and what you want to do.

Installing it as the base for the OpenStack deployment in the NTGLab.

@Dashrender said:

OK, in digging more into it.. it seams that Apple needs to do what Google did a few years ago.. Merge all of their accounts a single one. The app store and the iCloud appear to be able to be separate accounts (though perhaps that's only for legacy people).

You can choose to use different google accounts for sync too. It is all in the user decision making process. I mean, yeah if would never want to use different ones just because, but you can.

My understanding of how O365 works isn't the greatest. @scottalanmiller may know more about it.

When you create your O365 account you by default get the domainx.onmicrosoft.com account. There is no way around it, and no way to remove it.

Once you add your domain, and point your MX record over does it 'matter'. Your domain has to be verified to be added to the MS servers prior.

While I'm still in transition, mail to [email protected] will reach the user, as would [email protected] (in my case via the migrate script).

If you have Multiple domains in your 'tree' I don't think that would matter. It's just an add on and still goes 'through' domainx.onmicrosoft.com

I think.... In theory.