@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Heck we are planning to upgrade our desktops (approx 8,000) to all windows 10 within the first 6 months. Most of that wait will be for making the images and testing.

We moved months ago. As an MSP it is very valuable to be running ahead of the curve because we need to see stuff before clients, not with them.

Although really, Windows 10 is a minor update and there is little to worry about. As long as your apps don't complain, you are likely good. We've seen great stability even during the beta and RC period.

We mostly use Microsoft software (Office, MS Dynamics/GP), Autodesk (AutoCAD, Inventor, Civil etc) and some other BIM stuff. Then the rest is all in house developed by our in house DevOPs team.

I'm currently looking at server upgrades while they do the desktop stuff. Some of it will just go to Server 2012 r2 for now. Being on the latest versions seems to have good befits for us, as our third fail over location is Azure and the integration keeps getting better.

Thanks for your support my Dear 🙂

Yes, so lots of Ubuntu users will be impacted in the next two days.

@creayt said:

Ahhh, I think I get what you mean. So given that it works that way, and given that our previous approach of pre-overprovisioning the drives didn't work ( http://mangolassi.it/topic/4614/how-should-i-determine-exact-over-provisioning-levels-for-1tb-samsung-850-pro-ssds-to-be-used-in-a-raid-10 ), is there just no way to do this?

I have a feeling that there is not. If you are going to do this, you need to control the RAID provisioning. But I am not sure if the RAID card is going to work with you on this or cause problems. That would depend very specifically on the drives and the controller and how they interact.

@g.jacobse said:

Simple option.. not nearly as much fun though:

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that's an arbor press, not a shredder

This machine is part of our parent company's domain which I am not administering. What I got from their team is it might be due to SEP policies! Even though I disabled SEP on my machine, it still is the same issue. I am member of local admin group as well.

@nadnerB said:

Have a look at this one by softperfect.
It's portable but... I don't think that there is a report function.
https://www.softperfect.com/products/networkscanner/

I swear by SoftPerfect's Scanner. You can save your scans and it can do a LOT - - to the point where you can load up custom OID's for SNMP scanning, alternate credentials for WMI scanning, configure right-click options on your scan results, etc. I use it all the time.

When we migrate our remote sites to new IP schemes, I use it to inventory the subnet, then I'll come back and scan again (you can import your prior scans and merge them). The SNMP integration is great. I am getting printer serial and model numbers - - otherwise, I would have to connect to each manually.

It's portable in that you can simply copy the folder to a USB drive and it will work, but I don't know if it's 'proper portable.'

Great stuff.

this is the screenshot of my XP machine

Yes, I meant side-by-side with VMs.

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

If it's a cloud system why are you using RAID 10 with it?

I didn't build it.

Sure... Sure... Blame it on the other guys... If you can't fix it the easy way, at least you have a chance to redo it right. 🙂

@Breffni-Potter said:

The article is mis-leading
"Office 365, one of the leading solutions for bringing your back office to the cloud, is now available at a discount for nonprofits and charities in Canada."

Errr, most of the plans are in fact free. 🙂
http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/office365-for-nonprofits/

Yes -Yes they are. I have used TechSoup for items now for nearly 10 years. Great source of software and such for a NPO.

You don't have to get O365 via TechSoup to qualify though. I actually went through NTG before I moved to NTG, @Minion-Queen, @scottalanmiller, @GregoryHall were all instrumental in the start up process of getting moved over.

If you still need a WebHost - GrassRoots may cover NPOs in Canada as well. - Again free.

I use Icloud for GroveSocial as we are completely Mac/IOS based over on that side of things. But frankly I don't have a ton to save either.
for Personal I use Icloud for sharing photos from gigs etc. out to @art_of_shred easily etc. But really we use our NAS for what we are keeping.

This is the one I've read and is written in a very basic but informational way.

http://www.amazon.com/Linux-System-Administration-Handbook-Edition-ebook/dp/B003YMNVCA/ref=pd_sim_351_3/182-4598279-8641861?ie=UTF8&refRID=0GS6X5556RA8X3S9NANE

@Lakshmana said:

I just need to test my firewall as a intruder who does not know about the details of the port which are enabled in the firewall.

Ah, testing is not related to "breaking" or "integrating" or "accessing." Using those words led us down the garden path.

I was wondering if something like this was ever going to happen.

It looks like it is trying to connect but it gives me two choices for a SSL cert when I do... then it give me an error. I will have to look into a bit more when I have time.

@scottalanmiller said:

But this is tough, do that same thing in Spiceworks, for example, and treat people as peered professionals and people get really offended for expecting so much of them. But, the issue really is, that they expect so little of themselves 😉

I think it depends on the person you are talking with on SW. I have seen a few topics turn into arguments that would have come to fists if they had been face to face. And I have seen a few where the OP was actually truly welcoming of the advice the others had given him.

If done appropriately, it can help raise the person's expecations and confidence level -- especially once they realize we had to learn it somewhere too.

Since you have that thread about testing out Vultr...

They don't explain it very well there but you can spin up a VM with OwnCloud already installed and ready to go.

It runs on CentOS 6, but still very handy!