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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch
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      I purchased a single Dev 2 system for the express purpose of deploying various PBX packages on it.

      I could do it on my Hyper-V server (thanks X-Byte & GroveSocial/Mangolassi for that!) in my colocation space and it would be easier, but I also have need for some hosted solutions in the planning stages at a couple clients. so this kills two birds with one stone.

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender
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        I'm going to try ScreenConnect, though sounds like I'll need to buy a beefier dev level for it.

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        • coliverC
          coliver
          last edited by coliver

          Working on a tabletop gaming wordpress site/blog. Running it on the Debian release and nginx, on a Dev 1 server, which I've never used before. So far this is working really well. I also noticed that it is much faster to deploy instances then when I was messing around with Amazon EC2.

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          • gjacobseG
            gjacobse
            last edited by

            ManageEngine Service Desk to start...

            ScreenConnect - maybe.

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            • coliverC
              coliver @gjacobse
              last edited by

              @g.jacobse said:

              ManageEngine Service Desk to start...

              ScreenConnect - maybe.

              Has the Standard Edition of ManageEngine always been free? It seems like this is a new option.

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              • gjacobseG
                gjacobse
                last edited by

                A better person to ask is @JaredBusch.

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @gjacobse
                  last edited by

                  @coliver Always? Sort of. They have always had a free model but for only one or two techs I believe. They made the Helpdesk free for unlimited techs about a year ago.

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                  • coliverC
                    coliver @JaredBusch
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                    @JaredBusch said:

                    @coliver Always? Sort of. They have always had a free model but for only one or two techs I believe. They made the Helpdesk free for unlimited techs about a year ago.

                    Good to know, I've never really looked into their suite of tools... I feel as though I should now... especially since I have to restart my current helpdesk software 1-2 times a day.

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                    • JaredBuschJ
                      JaredBusch @coliver
                      last edited by

                      @coliver said:

                      Good to know, I've never really looked into their suite of tools... I feel as though I should now... especially since I have to restart my current helpdesk software 1-2 times a day.

                      Their documentation is not the greatest, but once up and running, it has been rock solid.

                      Plan ahead, if you act like and MSP, use the MSP version. The differences are minor, but there is no migration path other than paying ME to do it for you.

                      I glossed over that they even had an MSP version because I avoid things with that term in general. That was my mistake and I am working on spinning up a new instance running that version. So much of it does not apply to what we do, but it has a couple key things that make it better for someone with multiple clients.

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                      • coliverC
                        coliver @JaredBusch
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                        @JaredBusch said:

                        @coliver said:

                        Good to know, I've never really looked into their suite of tools... I feel as though I should now... especially since I have to restart my current helpdesk software 1-2 times a day.

                        Their documentation is not the greatest, but once up and running, it has been rock solid.

                        Plan ahead, if you act like and MSP, use the MSP version. The differences are minor, but there is no migration path other than paying ME to do it for you.

                        I glossed over that they even had an MSP version because I avoid things with that term in general. That was my mistake and I am working on spinning up a new instance running that version. So much of it does not apply to what we do, but it has a couple key things that make it better for someone with multiple clients.

                        I am the only "agent" here right now. and don't show billable hours or anything that indepth. Just doing basic ticketing and information management. Just thought it was interesting as I hadn't heard about the free option prior to this.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
                          last edited by

                          @Dashrender said:

                          I'm going to try ScreenConnect, though sounds like I'll need to buy a beefier dev level for it.

                          Dev 3 should be plenty.

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                          • ?
                            A Former User @coliver
                            last edited by

                            @coliver said:

                            @g.jacobse said:

                            ManageEngine Service Desk to start...

                            ScreenConnect - maybe.

                            Has the Standard Edition of ManageEngine always been free? It seems like this is a new option.

                            It's been for a while. Not always though.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller @coliver
                              last edited by

                              @coliver said:

                              @g.jacobse said:

                              ManageEngine Service Desk to start...

                              ScreenConnect - maybe.

                              Has the Standard Edition of ManageEngine always been free? It seems like this is a new option.

                              Nearly a year. ManageEngine made it free around the time that MangoLassi got started last year. There was a lot of discussion around it.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @coliver
                                last edited by

                                @coliver said:

                                @JaredBusch said:

                                @coliver Always? Sort of. They have always had a free model but for only one or two techs I believe. They made the Helpdesk free for unlimited techs about a year ago.

                                Good to know, I've never really looked into their suite of tools... I feel as though I should now... especially since I have to restart my current helpdesk software 1-2 times a day.

                                They offer a fully hosted option too, completely free.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller @coliver
                                  last edited by

                                  @coliver said:

                                  @JaredBusch said:

                                  @coliver said:

                                  Good to know, I've never really looked into their suite of tools... I feel as though I should now... especially since I have to restart my current helpdesk software 1-2 times a day.

                                  Their documentation is not the greatest, but once up and running, it has been rock solid.

                                  Plan ahead, if you act like and MSP, use the MSP version. The differences are minor, but there is no migration path other than paying ME to do it for you.

                                  I glossed over that they even had an MSP version because I avoid things with that term in general. That was my mistake and I am working on spinning up a new instance running that version. So much of it does not apply to what we do, but it has a couple key things that make it better for someone with multiple clients.

                                  I am the only "agent" here right now. and don't show billable hours or anything that indepth. Just doing basic ticketing and information management. Just thought it was interesting as I hadn't heard about the free option prior to this.

                                  The MSP version is not available hosted. So would be a perfect candidate for CloudatCost projects.

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                                  • DashrenderD
                                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    @Dashrender said:

                                    I'm going to try ScreenConnect, though sounds like I'll need to buy a beefier dev level for it.

                                    Dev 3 should be plenty.

                                    Right, I saw your earlier post. I have a Dev1 I bought to play with, now I'll need to get the Dev3.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      We have two Dev 1 instances for what we think of as "pure lab" boxes. These are plain jane, completely vanilla, no app OS instances that exist only to be research systems for the bare OS. Need to look at packages, test a script, blow them away and rebuild... whatever. We keep them just to see what a bare system looks like, needs for patches, etc.

                                      So the two we have currently are...

                                      CentOS 6.5 Lab
                                      CentOS 7 Lab

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                                      • ?
                                        A Former User
                                        last edited by

                                        I have two instances

                                        1x Dev 1 instance. Running CentOS 7 with LAMP right now, for my personal site (mainly testing) I may add SOGo for email on to this too if it works.

                                        1x Big Dog 1 Instance. Currently running Win 2k12 R2 64bit but, I have no idea what I will actually do with it.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          One nice thing that you can do is use the Big Dog series for Windows testing. If you are not using them for production, but just for testing, certs or similar, you can just rebuild every 90 days. This is how I did all of my Windows NT 4 certs back in the 1990s. Not on a cloud, obviously, but by physically reinstalling every three months from scratch (which was a huge deal back then, let me tell you!!) and reconfiguring the entire system every time. Learned a lot that way!

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                                          • DashrenderD
                                            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
                                            last edited by

                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            One nice thing that you can do is use the Big Dog series for Windows testing. If you are not using them for production, but just for testing, certs or similar, you can just rebuild every 90 days. This is how I did all of my Windows NT 4 certs back in the 1990s. Not on a cloud, obviously, but by physically reinstalling every three months from scratch (which was a huge deal back then, let me tell you!!) and reconfiguring the entire system every time. Learned a lot that way!

                                            Yeah I did the same thing back then.. what a pain!

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