@BBigford Overall this is just poor planning. I shouldn't have built them on the actual machines. I should have built virtual images so I could:

*Obtain snapshots before sysprep and
*Get around sysprep rearm because snapshots date back prior to first sysprep.

If I can convert them, I don't have to rebuild them. 🙂

It seems like, unless you've already made enough videos of this, that putting together ones that show your expertise in a given area would be most effective. Then you're not only educating, but also marketing.

I have it installed. Just dropped the forwarder on the firewall so far. So it alerts me whenever something gets by the first box.... no alerts so far (I'd knock on wood if I could.)

Only free up to 12. It's called a loss leader. Those customers are not going to pay anyway, they will just go somewhere else. but when they get to the thirteenth person, they are more likely to pay than to migrate elsewhere.

Delivering the service costs little, so they lose "nothing" doing this while they use it as a low cost form of marketing.

@Ambarishrh Glad to hear that did the trick!

I have it installed for a second time. The installation video is incorrect and it does not ask the questions that they say during the install. I did it twice because I thought that I had missed something. Nope, just that their documentation isn't right. So it drops you to a command prompt without any indication if you did it correctly or not or where to go next.

Okay, makes sense then. I'd lean towards XenServer with local storage then. You can migrate to CEPH when it is ready. This would get a single node up "instantly" and let you move others as the opportunity arises.

Very sad. He leaves quite a legacy.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

If you only have Samba controllers, hell it might work.

that's the normal way to use it. Mixing it in would just be weird. Lots of companies run on just it, it works great from what I hear. I've never heard of a shop that had issues after moving to it. It's full AD with all the bells and whistles. You can even manage it from Windows and GPOs work great too.

I saw somewhere online someone set up an environment that way and used RSAT from a Windows 7 computer to do GPO and users/computers.

@scottalanmiller said:

And would a campus agreement cover them after they leave school?

Don't know, I don't work there.
I'm not defending either party. I do think one party has shot themselves in the foot while the other has shot their mouth off.

lol Doh!

@DustinB3403 said:

@ChrisL said:

@DustinB3403 said:

FYI "Pr1^c3S$" would take a whopping 3 days to crack....

More than enough time to come up with a new password... like ':PR!n<3$$'

If you actually leave the single quotes, sure, secure password to brute force.... otherwise 50 days

What is irritating about single quotes is the number of commercial systems that strip them off without notification.

I've had this done to me at a company. I passed, but got to watch someone from the Windows Admin team go through a public lecture of not understanding security. That was rough. I'm pretty sure that he was crying. They didn't fire him that day, but that was pretty much the end.

@DustinB3403 said:

No none in stock.

Because I already have backups I'm pulling the disks out and wiping and performing a disk check on each.

I've always wanted to spin up a VM for each HDD to test and have them all test simultaneously. Would be glorious.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

I am not happy with the amount of the increase. I never said a company should not or cannot raise their costs.

Considering my other theory, I'm not surprised with the hike. Happy, maybe not, but surprised, nah!

Another question - how often are you buying new licenses?

And when you compare prices, what beats it?

Nothing beats it yet on price for paid solutions that work with Hyper-V.

Unitrends free is a possibility for this particular client.

It didn't happen to me but at the high school I worked at they had an on-site exchange server (we moved it off site when I was there) that was circa 2000 (I think). Two people had Out of Office replies and at the time there wasn't a setting to only send that once per user. So there was a sent message to everyone in the school, ~100 accounts, and these two accounts were replying Out of Office to each other over and over again... things got really sluggish and then after two hours stopped working altogether from what one of the techs told me.

Yup, that's what I saw... no information at all 🙂

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

I'll definitely give you that - but then you're still at the single device problem. Logging in from a phone, and getting a text message on the same device.

Same Device isn't as big of a deal.. It's more of same method of access. EX: Email is a back door to most accounts, if you have the email you can reset anything. So using the email as a place to send the 2FA login codes is just not a good idea.

Agreed.

Doesn't take all that much. And you never know if the society is real but the email is not. Although the entire premise is very scammy. It's got Amway written all over it.