What's amazing is how many people read my posts and then are like "oh wow, I had no idea you thought that" when I do these things 🙂

I use this plugin on SW too. It is great!

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

I'll admit - It's something I should learn... When I put the new server online adding 150 users quickly will be nice.

You don't have AD?

,..... Uhm,.. Nope. and yes. Organization has two OU (of sorts). The main office is a (crap shoot) Workgroup. The other does have AD in a Server 2k3 with Exchange...
Thus some of my recent (history) posts.

@Dominica Moved

@scottalanmiller said:

Yes, I liked that way, way more. The featured thing doesn't make a lot of sense given the format. It makes more sense if this was a magazine.

That part basically is a magazine, it is part of the marketing strategy I am sure.

Nothing wrong with that really because without marketing the platform concept won't work. They have to be the centralized marketing point for the SMB IT. If they are not, then the whole SMB IT as a group concept will fail.

If there is any post that needs to be pinned... it's this one!!!!

DevOps is when the software development person is also the person deploying and supporting the systems. If you are not writing the applications that you run, then you aren't DevOps. Hardware and software is just IT. DevOps means that you are a software developer (SE) first and foremost, but have to do the IT too.

@scottalanmiller

Ah, secretses. Has lots of secretses in his pocketses, he does!

@JaredBusch that Windows license thing is a huge deal. Everyone always blows it off with a "SMBs only run Windows" but that's so not true, especially in this day and age with virtualization. And any technical MSP knows to use the right tool for the right job. Sure 99% of SMBs run Windows but 100% of SMBs don't want to waste money for no reason. Running Windows doesn't mean you have spare, otherwise useless licenses sitting around. The cost of SW is actually quite high when you consider the licensing headaches. And since you either need a VDI license, a server license or to run it on a physical desktop it is far more costly than people really admit.

Running SW "right" means a Server 2012 R2 license virtualized with some serious disk subsystem to keep it running smoothly. That's far from trivial if you are an SMB. That's more cost than many put into their entire IT infrastructure!