So what we ended up deciding to do, thanks to all the fine suggestions here, is to enable the new policies for passwords for both admins and users in their respective OUs and we are just going to let user passwords expire naturally and over the next 12 months, everyone will be moved to the new password requirements. Obviously all new hires will have it from the start. Thanks to everyone for your help in this! I really appreciate it!

@nadnerB use a triple backslash to show a double \\

Bring out the ol' bocket-o-slap and apply liberal servings to the post-it bandits.

@Nic said:

You'd have to have levels. Like they do for electricians and other trade workers.

Absolutely, but unlike electricians or trade workers, it isn't a progression which makes it really hard.

@GregoryHall @Minion-Queen

Someone in the LinkedIn MAX RemoteManagement group had the answer I needed.

According to MS information on this website the correct way to call programs in the System32 folder is like this:

%windir%\Sysnative\name-of-file.exe, or for the Snipping Tool: %windir%\Sysnative\snippingtool.exe.

Once MAX RM pushed out the update to the client, it worked as expected.

I ended up changing the users Chrome password. I also recommended that she change all passwords. She had just started using LastPass and was adding sites as she went. Now she knows how to use the random password generator and is changing all passwords.

Maybe writing your own backup system is not a bad idea.

@scottalanmiller said:

NTG uses 7zip, PuTTY, Notepad++, VirtualBox too.

@scottalanmiller , you should check out KiTTY. Built from PuTTY but way nicer!

Aside from the form factor one of the things that is killing the Surface line of tabs is the app store. It's a running theme with Windows Phone. Internet loads of crapola.

BUT The surface 2&3 are by far a better fit into my workplace than the iPad and Android toys. If only for the ease of administration and getting them connected. Still horrendously expensive.

@IRJ said:

I found this after the fact, but I think this would be VERY helpful
http://kylgrn.com/2014/06/06/mcsa-office-365-test-70-346-70-347/

Awesome...thanks!

@scottalanmiller said:

@lance said:

@scottalanmiller

What is your opinion on Javascript and Node.js for backend web developers? I see a lot of back and forth on the topic throughout the internet.

It's making a lot of inroads on the backend but I don't see it lasting for forever. JS is a good language but not a great one. It just wasn't designed well for how it is being used. Once people start making Node.js-like engines for other languages, things will change rapidly.

Gotcha.

Have you looked into using an emulator so that the calculator runs on Windows rather than needing to attach to it?

http://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/pc/emulators/

Good info.

Any luck getting them to whitelist you?

NTG uses xByte. They've been great. @g.jacobse already uses them so that works out well for him 🙂

@garak0410 said:

Dell verified this is OEM but didn't verify if I can use that "virtual key" to turn this into a 2008R2 Hyper-V host and use the virtual key for a single Virtual VM (which will be our SQL Server eventually).

That's not for Dell to verify. That's none of their business and there is no question on that. Server OEM can be virtualized. It's not a question.

@NetworkNerd said:

In the case of this application (Epicor), they made some big steps to just take out the Progress layer that was there even if you had a SQL back end. I'll take that for now.

Sounds like some seriously weak software from all descriptions. Have you guys looked at anything from this millennium? You might have your mind blown by how modern software works in this space. Running 90s software for a core function has to be really painful.

Thanks. I deleted because I found it 😛

Been looking for a way to print custom maps - but on 36"x 36" paper... Wonder if this'll do..

@nadnerB said:

What version of Outlook are they using?
Is Exchange on premise or hosted?

Exchange Online via Office365

Try running Outlook (start --> run) with a few different context switches:
outlook /rpcdiag
outlook /resetfolders
outlook /resetnavpane

I will look into doing this.

Are they using cached mode?

If yes, try disabling it.

Will try this as well.

Have you tried deleting the entire local mail profile?

Control panel Also, the contents of C:\Users\ %username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook

I've deleted it from the control panel but not the contents of the AppData folder. I will try that too.

Thanks