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Who DOES determine that you will not fix things properly today? Who is making that decision right now and what was their reasoning?

I've realized that if I wanted everything to be done the way I think they should be done I need to create my own MSP, which I'm not ready to do yet.

No, MSPs make no decisions. Customers make those decisions. If you want to do things the way that you want them done, you have to stop working at an MSP and start being a business owner. There is no other position that gets to do that.

In this case I'm a subcontractor so I have 3 levels of people to convince:

My boss The company that holds the actual contract with the city. The city themselves

If I were an MSP I'd eliminate two of those

You still only have one person to convince, the city.

It's an improvement 😄

You always have the customer to convince

No, I mean RIGHT NOW. You , today, have only the city to convince. Those MSPs above you are not decision makers.

I don't interface directly with city management. The company who holds the contracts do so if they decide to not do something it would never be brought up to the city in the first place

You are the sole on site IT advisor, and they don't talk to you? They literally have on interface between the CIO and the senior IT person?

Hold the phone Scott - You even told me that there is NO REASON that the city in a case like this should ever talk to the onsite tech. Because talking to the tech could lead to all sorts of miscommunications. I.e. the MSP has other plans the tech might not be aware if, etc, etc, etc.

and now you're asking if the customer has a direct line to talk to an onsite tech? WTH?

Ah, but he's not the "onsite tech", he's the senior most tech for all of the associated organizations, including the city itself. That he is on site is not the relevant piece. That's his juniors and you are right, I don't feel that the CIO should be talking to them. But this is the CIO or whoever is running IT refusing to talk to the only possible technical interface point. That's the issue, not that he is on site.

The city needs to either...

Remove their role in IT management or... Have IT management interface with the IT technical people.

Oh, then I think Wire might have lead you down the wrong understanding. I don't think Wire is the most senior IT whatever - his boss is, or probably more accurately, the MSP who actually holds the contract with the city, is.

Or, I completely misunderstand his role 😉

His boss is the BOSS, but not on his technical level. His boss is an L0 or more likely L1 from the descriptions. He's an extremely junior tech on the site.

CalDav for Exchange... http://davmail.sourceforge.net/

@travisdh1 said in Dell VxRail:

@scottalanmiller said in Dell VxRail:

@NetworkNerd said in Dell VxRail:

There's an entire Ready Node selector here on VMware' site - http://vsanreadynode.vmware.com/RN/RN. One thing we learned is that you can go single-socket with the hosts to save on vSphere and vSAN licenses. Just beef up memory because there will be some overhead for vSAN traffic that folks seem to overlook. I know we did.

Most vendors are pushing single socket these days, except for MS. That's why Scale starts on single socket, for example.

That actually makes sense. With got 22core/44thread processors available, the need for more than a single processor is far less than it used to be.

Yes, it's a very common SMB mistake to buy two procs when almost never is that warranted in the SMB market. Single proc of the same core count and speed is faster than two procs and cheaper.

@hobbit666 no this is just for the mysql database.

@scottalanmiller I did not get to mine. I got sidetracked by Kemp.

@NetworkNerd said in VMware Essentials Info?:

... it's time to go somewhere at which technology is perceived as providing value to the business.

Same as saying "where they perceive the business as having value."

@NerdyDad said in nslookup - can it use WINS info:

@scottalanmiller Just out of curiosity, is there an nslookup alternative command for WINS? If so, what is it?

nblookup.exe

The Scale partner solution that people are thinking of is Work Spot. And no, it does not automatically create the VMs it's more of an access layer.

@Dashrender said in Cameyo - Application Virtualization:

@RojoLoco said in Cameyo - Application Virtualization:

Didn't @art_of_shred recently get a Cameyo?

I don't know about recently 😛

Maybe at MangoCon it can make a Cameyo appearance!

@Tim_G said in SAM's Chromebook Adventure 2017:

I'm thinking of getting a Chromebook just so I can have non-mobile (desktop mode) web access in places I do not want to have a normal sized laptop. Is 11.6" too big for that purpose?

Phone is just too small and so inconvenient for some things I want to do. I'd rather have a super small laptop just for web access and simple things.

11.6" is not very big. It's only slightly different than carrying around an iPad, but for me, way more usable.

@Shuey said in Free SharePoint?:

@Carnival-Boy Cool, I'll look into that.

If I was going to try a P2V of this server, what would be the best way to go about it?

I could consider a cold clone (the only disc I have available to try this is the VMware cold clone 3.0.3 disc; not sure if that will work or not) Another option I was considering is installing VMware Standalone Converter, then booting into DSRM mode and performing the P2V. Once the server was successfully converted, I'd shutdown the existing server, fire up the virtual, and make sure the IP was the same.

Thoughts on these options, or other possibilities?

The best case scenario is that the P2V jacks AD totally and forces a total rebuild of the environment that allows you to demonstrate to the owners that bad-IT is just another term for "wasting money" and that would give you a chance to start fresh.

@anthonyh awesome you got it covered then 🙂

I've created a feature request on github as well, found here.

Yeah the firewall was the issue the entire time, for some reason I don't recall that being an issue last time I set this up. ..

Whatever, thank you all for proving it was human error.

@jt1001001 said in SharePoint reverse proxy replacement for MS ForeFront UAG:

@JaredBusch no just Godaddy certs so far. You probably found the same blog posts I did:
http://blog.ganser.com/automate-lets-encrypt-certificate-renew-and-deployment-to-kemp-loadbalancer/

I did not find that one, and it is exactly the right thing.

I can update my cron to call a script instead of certbot renew and then have it use the Kemp API to push the cert after a renew.

So now on to setting up multiple certs per virtual service. read a post that I couldn't. if I can't this gets harder too.

Because LE on IIS still is not pretty.

Take a look at this:
https://community.webroot.com/t5/Webroot-SecureAnywhere-Complete/Controlling-WRData-folder-size-help-needed/m-p/75341#M5416

Usually this is caused by unknown applications that have not been whitelisted or like Jared noted it is journaling mode.