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  A Little Embarrassed to Even Ask This......RE: Hosts File / Windows 7
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  Blame the British then
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  Security mindsets of very small businesses and residential clients
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  @Carnival-Boy said: I was thinking more about controlling rules in Exchange. If HR need to be involved to get something enforced then I may as well forget it. Then why the concern? If management and HR think it doesn't matter then it should definitely not concern you. Not IT's place to make those kinds if calls.
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  Anyone here use Kaspersky Endpoint Security (KES10)?
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  Security mindsets of MSPs
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  @Carnival-Boy in that particular case, I would guess that that was an accident. Service providers and vendors do have to be careful as their accident "blast radius" is often larger than in house IT is. But to be fair, we see internal IT people accidentally post rather a bit of stuff when looking for help online or using KB systems that are hosted publicly or whatever. Publishing tickets without an air gap process, though, that is pretty idiotic I must admit.
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  System Image for small businesses
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  I've been using Clonezilla for 4+ years.. it's easy and fast. it has some caveats, but you can read about the requirements if you're doing anything more than restoring to the same (or same size) disk as you started with.
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  Windows 7 versus Windows 8.1 Update 1
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  @scottalanmiller said: We are about to subject a non-tech user to their first time seeing Windows since Windows 2000 and it will be 8.1. This will be exciting. You sir, have an interesting view of excitement!!
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  BackupAssist Users - v8 Public Beta Announced
  • Bill Kindle  

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  Cool, thanks.
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  Have You Heard of ATT Toggle?
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  I'd only buy telecoms from a telecoms company. Best of luck to them with their all-encompassing we'll sell you anything approach but I fear it may not work to well for the customer when they need help. Call me skeptical.
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  I need clarification on Windows server 70-410 exams schedule and guide
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  That would be two guides for one test. Each number, in this case 70-410 refers to a single test that results in a single certification.
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  Woot Deal - HP Pavilion 500-164 Desktop, AMD A8-6500, 8GB DDR3, 2TB HDD, USB 3.0, 802.11n, Win 8
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  For that much you can pick up a card which should crank out lower end titles at extremely playable framerates with all graphics settings maxed out. I would recommend jumping up to the $200 price bracket, but if on a fixed budget, you can pick up a Radeon HD 7790 or a 7770. I've had experience with both, and I've gotten the 7770 to push 37 FPS on Battlefield 4 on Ultra settings at 1280 x 1024, but a sad 28 FPS at 1920 x 1080. The 7790 is on slightly faster on paper, but is better optimized for modern titles. If you were looking to spend a bit more, I would recommend an EVGA GTX 660 SC at $209, which will run anything but the most demanding games at Ultra settings around 60 FPS in 1920 x 1080P. If you want any further recommendations over price, brand, specific types of Video Plugins, Video Encoding/Decoding, or Chipsets, go ahead and ask!
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  Coder's Life
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  Made more fun when your code only works in a IE or FF!
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  Schedule task to show up as calendar appointment
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  Oh yes, my Google Fu is powerful today.I found the answer and tried it, just what the doctor ordered, aside from some weird formatting, but who cares really? You can open/read your email and then in the toolbar at the top under Move, choose Calendar. A calendar schedule appointment opens up with your email subject in the subject line and in the text area the body of your email. You just set your start/end time and BAM, its on the calendar. I might actually get stuff done now.
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  FOG Finally Has An Update
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  @scottalanmiller said: @Bill-Kindle people coming from another community have been conditioned with heavy misuse if the term beta. It makes people think that it is something that it is not. Right, my bad. Release Canidate
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  New IT Employee
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  @scottalanmiller said: @alexntg said: @scottalanmiller said: @alexntg said: For an entry-level employee, I can see doing some prepwork. For an experienced employee, a typical rite of passage often is having them set up their own workstation, join it to the domain, etc. Watching how they go about this and paying attentention to the questions they ask will give great insight on how to go about training them in an effective fashion. Few large companies would give desktop admin rights to average IT folk. And far fewer would let them join to the domain. Most larger companies would use something like SCCM or VDI, so joining the computer to the domain would have already been done. I don't think that VDI is as common as you would imagine. I've yet to hear of Fortune 500s even discussing it yet. I only work in so many, but from what I've been seeing it is a long way off from common adoption for normal users in the large space. It seems to be mostly small companies doing it. I'm sure some large companies are going that way, but I've not seen it not really heard about it. Now small companies, I hear them doing it every day. I'm familiar with a Fortune 100 that's working on implementing VDI. Bigger companies are doing it, but it's more of a phase-in process. Because of this, it isn't as widely known. Most implementations start with a PoC at a smaller division, then grow from there.
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  Email That The NSA Can't See? Tell Me More......
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  Ah yes. Small screen here.
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  Have You Heard of ATT Toggle?
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  Port Redirection with IPTables on CentOS 6
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  Should go without saying, applies to RHEL 6 as well.
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  Doing IT at Home: Enterprise Networking
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  Ohhhh..... Great idea for a naughty IT geek tshirt company. "Love IT"
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  Learning pfSense any ideas?
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  I mentioned the idea for the machine or VM to my superior and it looks like it is a go. Sometimes I need a slap in the back of my head when it comes to real IT thinking. We went from being apart of another department doing half IT/half pricing stuff, with their budget mixed in, the pricing stuff more important, & extremely underpowered hardware. We (Finally) split off in December of last year & I helped in the process of selecting and installing shiny new machines for our users, for our registers & new servers. Of course along the entire process I've had the help & plethora of info from you awesome people. @scottalanmiller said: Perfect timing. I think that I mentioned pfSense specifically. This just went live this weekend... http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/05/doing-it-at-home-enterprise-networking/ Thanks you, I'm checking it out right now.
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  Email accounts and aliases in Office 365
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  Thanks @Dashrender. I've actually have changed most to come to my email address which will be one of the aliases forwarding to Zendesk along with support, info and something else. I will then create a new email address for myself. This way all the clients that have my email address will automatically go to Zendesk to create tickets. I just have to weed out vendors and such and send them along to my new email addy.
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  Installing RHEL 7.0
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  Rhel 7.0 and Martini i just guess. But i just realized that i can use my Linux mint now running in Virtual Box.
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  Intranet social network
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  Im still busy with the email migration works. Scheduled it for this weekend, once done, will be testing Zimbra!
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  Source Tree for GIT
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  What GIT repo are you using?
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  Weekend Project: Atlassian Jira
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  How many users would they have?
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  Famous Datacenters
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  @RoguePacket Pretty cool!
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  How to Extract msgstore.db.crypt5 Database?
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  That name suggests that it is encrypted. That will pose a problem.
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  I need to issue the Update and Restart command not just Restart
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  Have you started issuing deadlines for updates?
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  Google Looks to maybe add PGP to GMAIL
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  ASM is Firefox's C to JavaScript compiler.
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  What is your favorite process to migrate Sharepoint 2013 server to Sharepoint Online
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  SAMBA?
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  @scottalanmiller said: @lance said: @Dashrender said: I guess I'm missing something. Even with Linux, you can have ACLs. Linux can participate in AD through LDAP and pass user credentials if they were ever needed. That's where I am getting confused. I think I did read once that Linux can participate in AD through LDAP , but completely forgot about it since I have never used it. Thanks. If I ever needed to use it, does it work smoothly? That's not related to NTFS ACLs though. That's true - that's why I posted my first post the way I did - there was mixing of terms Samba and NTFS - not talking the same language one is a sharing protocol and the other drive format. I suppose that the OP didn't specify if they wanted the ACL set at the share level or at the filesystem level. Actually he did, it was that he needed no permissions. Although in light of things like Cryptolocker - if users don't normally need write permissions there, I'd limit them to read only for the sake of things like Cryptolocker.