If the asset breaks while applying the tag, well, it wasn't worth it 😉

@JaredBusch said:

Piss on that. As a vendor, you better give me MSRP on the website or I will be hard pressed to ever buy from you.

@Jason said:

manage engine product almost all need quotes, they have so many different ways of licensing and addons and such. We just do the subscription based ones.

Products needing quotes to get the best price is pretty normal. But if there is no price to even give me a baseline, screw that.

Also, your specific example of ManageEngine has very detail base pricing right on their website. They are a great example of the right way to do things.

https://store.manageengine.com/ad-manager/

Best responses will be from posting in the existing thread that you have. People are already assisting you. Did you do the roll back yet?

@scottalanmiller Planning to start it this week.

I'm still finding parts to use. Trying to be as cost conscious as possible as this is only my home lab. (and the significant other gets testy when I want to "buy toys")

@Dashrender said:

How did training go for users that needed to use TS/RDS for somethings, but not others? How do you manage favorites between their desktop and the RDS session? Do you only publish IE for those things? of a full desktop?

It's still pretty darn expensive no matter what way you slice it...

It's no different than users than need to use other RDS for GreatPlains and other applications via RDP. We don't do published apps as it causes some issues with some apps, it's all full desktops. We don't do anything with their favorites, they just copy paste a link to it if they need something with flash or java, It's not meant to be their main workspace just for sites that get blocked at the network firewall (Palo Alto's in the datacenter) level for desktops because we block flash and java. Doesn't really cost much to add an additional RDP server (you just need user cals for max concurrent users, not for all users) , and the cost is very minimal compared to the impact on security java and flash have, many infections come from those anymore, and we have to report any infections or breaches publicly as a publicly traded company. IMO a RDS is what in most cases should be considered over VDI, a VDI only needs to be looked at if there are limitations that RDS could not handle.

Easier question to ask - did any computers loose power at all? If the answer is yes, then ask, was it all or just some? If some, then possibly you had a 3 phase power related issue. If not, then this is not an issue.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

LOL lower their prices for a 20 million/year savings? that would be what, $0.10 per iPhone sold? even less?

Yes, very tiny, and if they only passed all savings on to customers, what would be their incentive for switching?

Exactly. You the consumer have already proven you're willing to pay X, why would/should they lower it? Instead they only care about lowering their expenses and increasing their profits.

@JaredBusch said:

Great to see you got it working @shybrsky.
I did noticed the simple MS Paint screen capture and edit. I would recommend that you look into Greenshot for performing screen captures and simple editing. It works a treat and can even integrate to imgur for you.

noted bud..and thanks

@adam-ierymenko I'm guessing the laptop was off two+ days. The user only uses it two days a week at most.

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

I'll consider changing it when I move to the flat network...

You are not on a flat network? That is how it works. You can have as many DHCP servers as you want as long as they do not see each other.

No, I have several subnets. The networks see each other through a router.

I'm not sure what you mean that you can have many DHCP servers as long as they don't see each other?

In my current setup, at this branch location of 10 PC's and 16 phones I have two DHCP servers. Each provide IPs for a different range in the same subnet. The Mitel PBX has a DHCP server but only responds to Mac addresses belonging to Mitel phones. The windows DHCP will respond to everything. My question was - what happens if the Windows server responds to a phone faster than the Mitel DHCP server? I'm guessing the phone wouldn't work.

This branch will probably always be on a different subnet (local to that location), but my main office has 5 /24 subnets.. I'd like to move them to one /22 subnet.

@scottalanmiller said:

I need a series of "how I hear it" marketing interpretations but here is one that I like:

Marketing: 9 out of 10 dentists recommend toothpaste X.

What I Hear: Likely 90% of dentists say it doesn't matter what you use as long as you use something, 10% say definitely don't use toothpaste X.

Saw this today and thought of this thread...

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@flomer said:

OK, I guess I could try and test it if I have the time soon 😉

Did you get a chance to test?

I am lost on this one too.

@meghal said:

The Battery is draining fast after some google application update. Please share if any one also facing same problem.

That's not very good. Google's own apps should have the best chance at being good about battery life issues.

Those little Atom processors that they tend to use (I miss the Sparc32 days, it was just more interesting) use very little electrical power and produce very little heat and tend to last for forever. Pretty much unbeatable.

Unfortunately no. We at @ntg used to provide leasing for Upstate NY but have gotten away from that, too much complication without enough benefit. We have never leased gear ourselves, especially internationally.

@chrislaz8592 did you get this working or do you need additional assistance?

@DustinB3403 said:

So you could use something like WinSCP to connect to Amazon S3 service of yours assuming its configured as NFS / SMB Share and copy down or upload your file(s).

No, there are a couple things wrong here.

NFS / SMB are network file systems, not block storage. So this goes against what you posted in the line about about using whatever filesystem you want which means block storage. Neither block storage nor network file storage is an option on any of these products. Nor would you want it as even NFS is horribly weak over a WAN link and SMB is far worse.

WinSCP is a tool for SFTP, FTPS, SCP and FTP usage, not SMB or NFS. So that isn't the right tool in any circumstance here.

The biggest reasons for always virtualizing are around hardware abstraction and free. Virtualization is free and easy, which is important as it takes away the "why not virtualize" caveats. Virtualization has, effectively, no downsides. It actually lowers the cost and effort of systems administration and through the miracles of abstraction it actually makes the overall system simpler, rather than more complex!

The hardware abstraction aspect is critical because it makes our systems more stable, rather than less stable, and more flexible for whatever we might need in the future. It reduces technical debt with no real cost of its own. These aspects mean equal or lower cost with lower risk.

It's these aspects, the "always pros" and the "lack of cons" that puts virtualization into the solid "always category.