I'm starting a new thread to talk about internet connections themselves leaving this one for the firewall questions.

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

Alternative to moderation:
Single posts allowed in the Jobs Posting, but then a discussion thread can be created that is linked back to the OP for 'bantering'. Keeping the Jobs Posting limited to single messages only.

So then the downside there, of course, is that things that are super common like "What is the location?", "What is the payscale?", "What is the actual job?" would be lost. Is that something that we want? That most potential posters would want? Maybe, maybe not.

No - you are quite correct. Those questions should be with the OP, there is no logical reason why those details should be separated from the OP.

But is that not why we are having a discussion about it?

@scottalanmiller said:

But most companies don't use ERP.

Ah, right. That'll explain it then. I work in ERP so in my world *every *company uses ERP.

@g.jacobse said:

@handsofqwerty said:

@g.jacobse said:

@handsofqwerty said:

If you're looking for something small, the Backbeat FIT by Plantronics is awesome. If you want over the year, the Backbeat Pro is awesome! Don't get the Backbeat GO 2. They are horrible...

I have the Backbeat Pro - don't like it. Battery life is retarded and none of the rubber ear cups fit, which means they fall out of my ears all the time.

@JaredBusch - as for dealing with listening to music in only one ear; It's a trade off. I get to listen to music or talk on the phone, and ignore,.. err I mean still hear the person across the room.

Just to confirm, we're talking about these, right?

http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/backbeat-pro

I think you might be thinking of the Backbeat GO 2.

Backbeat Go - Sorry

Yeah, those are horrible. Never use those.

@Dashrender said:

I was wondering if this was going to be good enough considering Scott's recommendation? As long as I don't recreate a route between the VLANs I guess it should be.

Right, you would want to keep them as gapped as possible.

@DenisKelley Yeah I feel completely comfortable that the default VMWare upgrade would work, but it wouldn't update the drivers. Assuming the old drivers already in place are compatible, they would just stay in place.

I completely agree.. if you don't have DNS internal, use external.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

even at the desktop level.

That's really what it's designed for is technicians troubleshooting.

Yes, and I feel that it is excellent for that. And good as a launching point for most anything in IT.

@g.jacobse said:

How does Group Policy affect AD memberships or does it?

It does not. AD and GPO are separate things.

I had like 50 of these in my junk mail last week.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm confused... So what you're telling me is, in a digital system (and possibly in my Mitel VOIP/SIP system too) that the call control isn't handed off to the phone, but is asterisk it is?

We used Mitel PBX and IP Phones at the town. Yes they call it a hold but it was basically a parking lot. Are there was a Individual Hold which placed it at the phone (could not remote pick up) or a System Hold which placed it on the PBX's parking lot hold. We just programed the buttons to do the system hold. It's different vendor terminology but it's the same thing.

So the parking lot # it put it at was always it's own extension? OK that would make total sense... the guys who set it up must have done that then...

KeepVid is what I use. No idea if it is good, though.

TP-Link switch is working excellent as well!

hmmm.. I'm not sure Appassure can talk directly to the storage medium.. I'd have to look into that.

@scottalanmiller ewww. Yuck.

@IRJ said:

@scottalanmiller said:

They don't even pretend to be trying to act on behalf of the country or with rationality anymore.

People don't even realize it, or are willing to give up freedom for a false sense of security

The nature of democracy. People don't think it through that much. The majority don't vote based on a knowledge or a care about the issues.

I guess I should have trusted my gut...

Oh well, I got my money back.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@coliver said:

@Dashrender said:

I only need one or two phones to be mobile throughout our buildings... so buying two WiFi phones will probably be easier than dealing with DECT base stations all over. In clinic, the phones will stay within 50 m of the base station, so that won't be a problem.

You could just download a VoIP app on your smart phone and connect it to Wifi... it would probably amount to the same thing... just less expensive. I assume you have a smart phone?

I enjoy Zoiper.

The problem with that is management and staff don't want to use personal equipment without compensating the equipment owner (staff member in this case). So currently BOYD doesn't work in my environment.

Poor Boyd. You should fire him.

LOL - nice.

$computers = Get-Content -path C:\fso\computers.txt
$user = "aUser"
$password = "MyNewPassword!"
Foreach($computer in $computers)
{
$user = [adsi]"WinNT://$computer/$user,user"
$user.SetPassword($Password)
$user.SetInfo()
}

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/03/25/how-can-i-change-the-passwords-of-multiple-local-computer-accounts.aspx

@NetworkNerd said:

@Danp said:

So is freepbx a good choice for a voip novice? Also looking for opinions on hosted vs on-premise. Am I better to spin up a vm internally or host on DO?

Just be careful when you are talking about running something like FreePBX in-house on a VM versus with a hosting provider on a VM. There may be differences in the kernel that can cause buggy behavior in the PBX (like running Elastix on VMWare vs. Xen and call reports working in one case but not the other). It can work, but you want to test it to make sure.

But I'd say for a VOIP newb, FreePBX is a decent choice to dig in and start playing.

Awesome, I'm hoping that my consultant will point things like this out to me, as well as other pitfalls that might exist.