@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

Is the user getting duplicate reminders in OWA?

Great question!

Is the PST still mapped? I'm guessing now since you mentioned I mentioned redoing the profile.

I think he deleted and recreated the profile. I would think that there is no PST mapped or attached at this point. When he deletes and recreates that profile it pulls mail down from the Exchange Server and builds an OST file.

OWA is a good test since it rules out any local issues with Outlook and Outlook profiles.

That is the HP Business Outlet center. If you only want one, find a Probook in the 6000 series. Get one that matches your specs and get the 3-year support plan, which will comp you your shipping and only cost another $30-40 on top of the cost of the laptop (once shipping savings is subtracted). Their inventory changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour though. If you find something you like, and it's at the price you want, jump on it.

AD is only down for long periods of time because no one notices. If we were monitoring the AD environment closely, which we certainly need to do but it isn't a priority, we wouldn't have those long outages. It's because being down for a week has zero impact that no one investigates the issues until a convenient time or someone notices because they were attempting a ping test or something.

I like it all integrated and together, but that's me.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Whatever is on sale.

They are all pretty much the same now. PNY is another good, standard brand.

They really are. Especially when speed doesn't matter and there are few writes.

I don't know about poor write speeds. Never had issues with them personally.

Don't care about poor write speed either if it is only going to be used for a bootable image. it will only be used read only after it is configured.

Can data be retrieved? Yes.

Will it be worthwhile to do so? Not likely.

As for all of those other accounts my account has access to being in a single profile - maybe it's an Outlook 2013 thing, but they are all there now by default.

I logged into a new computer, setup Outlook 2013 - bam all of those aforementioned accounts show up in the list down the left side.

Perhaps I didn't see them on my desktop because I always have my folder list open and there's enough of them that they push the other users accounts off the bottom...

Thought I would pass that along.

Nope no U3 on it... and like @technobabble I delete anything on the drives before use.

@Mike-Ralston said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm surprised you don't have a conductivity issue - maybe carboard is more electrically neutral than I though?

I was worried about this, so I ran some extra wire and I'm now using the speaker as a ground. Its casing is metal, so it works well. The whole thing is safe, and rather comical.

Well done. Lol

@thecreativeone91 said:

@MattKing I've seen a lot of newer Harddrive cirucits and even some PCI cards coated over with Clear coating, It's called conformal coating and it covers all the comments leads so there is little chance of ESD shock with them.

That's really interesting I'll have to look into that. I wonder if it's becoming more of an industry standard or just some OEM's.

I still dont know what you have and what you want to do.

Installing it as the base for the OpenStack deployment in the NTGLab.

@Dashrender said:

OK, in digging more into it.. it seams that Apple needs to do what Google did a few years ago.. Merge all of their accounts a single one. The app store and the iCloud appear to be able to be separate accounts (though perhaps that's only for legacy people).

You can choose to use different google accounts for sync too. It is all in the user decision making process. I mean, yeah if would never want to use different ones just because, but you can.

My understanding of how O365 works isn't the greatest. @scottalanmiller may know more about it.

When you create your O365 account you by default get the domainx.onmicrosoft.com account. There is no way around it, and no way to remove it.

Once you add your domain, and point your MX record over does it 'matter'. Your domain has to be verified to be added to the MS servers prior.

While I'm still in transition, mail to [email protected] will reach the user, as would [email protected] (in my case via the migrate script).

If you have Multiple domains in your 'tree' I don't think that would matter. It's just an add on and still goes 'through' domainx.onmicrosoft.com

I think.... In theory.

@scottalanmiller Thanks! I just read your RAID 100 article the other day.

I always have a ton of heat shrink and wire loom sitting around so I can make my own cable management.

Yes. Hence why it is potentially quite beneficial. I would use something like that to tell the time.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

HyperV has limits too on free. Just not the backup API. If you go down the "features for free" list you'd go to XenServer every time.

Yeah, I believe it's doing a much better job with windows virtualization than it used to. It used to be somewhat slow/laggy with windows and linux ran great but now days it seems to be on par with ESXi.

It's getting there. No way it could be considered on par, but pretty good, yes. HyperV is still the fourth place on technology but second place in the SMB marketplace. VMware and Xen are the technology leaders and the enterprise market leaders. KVM is the overall backrunner with no good spot in the market but IBM and Red Hat dollars working hard to keep it viable. HyperV is the last place on technology but with massive Microsoft investment, marketing muscle and the simplicity of being under the same umbrella as most other software in the SMB space which seems to be the only factor, other than confusion, driving SMBs to use it (there was a time when nearly every HyperV install was done through misunderstanding.)

If HyperV did not have backups included or if VMware did have them included in the free version, HyperV would again have little purpose in the market.