@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140809132357-1270637-an-honest-message-from-your-it-guy

Seems like this guy has that whole us against them (IT vs Users) mentality. I can't stand that. We aren't enemies we are suppose to work together. Wonder if he could do the end users jobs with out looking dumb, probably not. Also there's a reset password an a force change password at next login box in AD Users & computers for a reason.

While it's definitely better to try to work together, your argument that we couldn't do their job without looking dumb is probably not true. Yeah we most likely would need some training in that specific situation/job/etc, but I'm pretty sure once we learned it we wouldn't be nearly as inept as so many users constantly are.

Except the last one about sharing your password (you should NEVER do this - if IT needs to log in as you for some reason - stay there and log in for them ever time they need it - Cover your backside by not giving IT what they really don't need), the rest of the points are all valid.

@Katie said:

IIRC, the meeting rooms might have checkbox in their profile that says something to the effect of "Show in directory".
That could be helpful, or useless - but it's the best I can come up on a Saturday morning before coffee.

There is a 'hide from Exchange address Lists' but that is unchecked (and the rooms are findable if I click the button seen above)

Thanks @Dashrender, that will help a lot. I hope to start this later today.

@scottalanmiller said:

Was doing some research on this recently and found the HP documentation on how to do this:

HP Proliant Servers - How to Reset the HP ILO Inband Root/Administrator Password in Linux

It is very useful (if you have Linux running on the box in some form, or vSphere which is similar enough.) However, it turns out that some ILO firmware editions don't work with this and cannot be reset without being patched first. Important to know.

Thanks for the heads up.

Gotcha, then yeah, Robocopy is the obvious choice.

I don't believe it has been out more than a few days. The ship date was far enough out that we think that we might be in the first week of shipments, perhaps.

I've never heard of the Posh. If you run Spiceworks Android App on it, is it Posh Spice?

That's an easy fix. As long as you have the foresight to have SSH enabled.

@g.jacobse said:

@ajstringham said:

I agree with what he said. I've never heard of it. I've already got Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, and that's just installed. I also have Box, Amazon and a couple others. I'm set. Lol

I agree; I have Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and another I can't remember, in the office I have Onedrive and another Dropbox... I also carry 6 different USB drives - although three of them were to replace the other three, and I've since plan to reduce even more with a multi-boot USB.

@scottalanmiller said:

The primary feature of Tresorit is client-side encryption. A nice feature, but not too big of a deal for SMB customers, I don't think.

https://tresorit.com/

Although the REALLY BIG feature is that all data is stored only in the EU, not in the US. That's a big feature that I am surprised that they don't advertise more clearly.

Uhm - yea,.. that would be a big issue to disclose.. the US market could easily be cut off if someone barked loud enough. While it was a "SPICEWORKS" promo.. think I too will be passing.

No I think it is meant as a huge plus. More protection for companies.

Glad it's fixed!

@scottalanmiller said:

FTC..

Lol

Oh, so no way to test email functionality directly?

@Dashrender said:

The NAT Traversal is the biggest thing to overcome for any of these types of products. It's most easily done by a middle man server, which of course has a cost.

Yeah, that's a huge pain.

Thanks guys, I missed the fact that this was a 'soft phone'

In my case I installed a new HP driver, which apparently (completely expectantly) must have updated a part of one of my other pre existing HP drivers - which is where I had this problem.

@g.jacobse said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse no phone is useful without a PBX. How are you functioning without a PBX today? Are you paying for a 1960s Key System from the phone company?

Uhm yea - about that,...We have a onsite Nortel NorStar system at the main office,.. but I'm pretty sure it is otherwise POTS.... as it 90% of all of our remote sites. It was this way when I started last year - but I fully plan to move us into the modern world...

Nortel made PBXs, long ago. That's just an old PBX.

POTS is the outside lines, doesn't refer to the inside ones. At a minimum that's almost certainly a digital (not IP) phone system. Pretty rough, though.