@jt1001001 said in Data centers and retrofitting:

We have an old hospital that they converted the ER and emergency operating rooms into a data center. Redundant power feeds and generator were already on site so all they did was upgrade to latest code and add UPS system. The old ER ambulance entrance is now the shipping/staging area.
http://victorytechcenter.org/
My company is colocating some of our equipment in here come next month.

We looked at Victory didn't go for it but it was a really cool datacenter.

The last line in the above really speaks to what many MSPs fail to understand. In an SMB, adding a extremely complex solution such as an IPOD is not a great solution for the business (or the MSP).

As the saying goes "Fool me once, shame on you, fool my twice shame on me."

If an SMB purchases something that is so extremely complicated, and fragile and then the business wants to dump the MSP, they have to find another MSP (or Meta-MSP @Minion-Queen) to pick up the knowledge and maintain or fix the existing system.

Because the local on-staff IT likely doesn't have the time / ability to learn how to maintain the solution.

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@MattSpeller said in How this IT Team Became Heroes:

Isn't it an iron clad rule that there are no heros in IT?

There was that great thread on SW years ago, I wish that I had the link, where there were hundreds of responses to "who is your IT hero" and not one, literally, not a single one, mentioned someone who worked in IT except for one...and the thing that made him their hero wasn't his IT work but his writing and not his writing about IT but his writing about time management. Zero IT people made the list. All marketing, sales or software people... and one writer.

@Breffni-Potter said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

However aside from the setting not being applied there's no actual harm to GP conflicts.

Speaking broadly, with a badly setup GP you can get delayed logins and other strange issues.

Not from conflicting settings you won't get delayed logins. Conflicting settings will just allow one to override the other.

Delayed logins come from permissions issues, trying to do to much, bad settings or corrupt Sysvol and too much WMI filtering.