What Are You Doing Right Now
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
I've essentially never had to support that.
You win!
I do. Starting my IT career on Solaris meant that nearly all of the BS that Windows people tend to face, I had zero of. I had smart users, a great OS, stable systems, big time RISC hardware with loads of resources, etc.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
I've essentially never had to support that.
You win!
I do. Starting my IT career on Solaris meant that nearly all of the BS that Windows people tend to face, I had zero of. I had smart users, a great OS, stable systems, big time RISC hardware with loads of resources, etc.
Thus, my current efforts.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
I've essentially never had to support that.
You win!
I do. Starting my IT career on Solaris meant that nearly all of the BS that Windows people tend to face, I had zero of. I had smart users, a great OS, stable systems, big time RISC hardware with loads of resources, etc.
Thus, my current efforts.
For the 2 years I did user support we used Thunderbird mostly.
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@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
yum, lassi
What drink is that? It looks like an Indian tea/milk thing I've had before
He is in India.
oh that explains it then. i have a friend who will make those for me
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@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
I've essentially never had to support that.
You win!
I do. Starting my IT career on Solaris meant that nearly all of the BS that Windows people tend to face, I had zero of. I had smart users, a great OS, stable systems, big time RISC hardware with loads of resources, etc.
Thus, my current efforts.
For the 2 years I did user support we used Thunderbird mostly.
Yeah, way better. Rock solid, easy to use, easy to support.
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@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
yum, lassi
What drink is that? It looks like an Indian tea/milk thing I've had before
He is in India.
Bangalore this week, and I've had quite a few Lassi's.
i am jealous, i would like to travel over there some day
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
What I think is going on is there are users for whom I apparently haven't installed this registry key; thus, even though they see pictures, recipients do not see them. Some images aren't in the signature though, they're just in the body, which I don't think really matters since and image in an E-mail is just an image in an E-mail.
No users have yet been able to articulate clearly whether the following is true: "You see images in the E-mail you compose, but the recipient doesn't see the images."
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High level posters lying about RAID safety to trick unsuspecting newbies into losing their data. SW is a hell hole of people trying to hurt each other.
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2088225-nas-advice-and-raid-level-for-backup
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
yum, lassi
What drink is that? It looks like an Indian tea/milk thing I've had before
He is in India.
Bangalore this week, and I've had quite a few Lassi's.
i am jealous, i would like to travel over there some day
I'm scheduled, for whatever that is worth, to be in Qatar a week from tomorrow.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
So, we used to get updates on Saturday, giving them 2 days to test the production system before the bulk of their customers started using... and now THIS....
What EHR or EMR is this?
athenaNet from athenaHealth
That's an EMR I don't want since they take 5% or more of the net company with the bulk of your earnings. Although they do all the billing for you.
yeah - no they really don't. They claim that they do.. but our billing dept is every bit as big as it was before we moved to athenaNet, back when we did 100% of our own claims work.
athena claimed a massive reduction in back office staff, this has been completely false. As mentioned, our billing department is the same size as before athena, we manage all incoming faxes by hand because their auto system was screwing up and closing future scheduled appointments by assigning recently completed similar appointments to those future slots - considering them completed, etc.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
What I think is going on is there are users for whom I apparently haven't installed this registry key; thus, even though they see pictures, recipients do not see them. Some images aren't in the signature though, they're just in the body, which I don't think really matters since and image in an E-mail is just an image in an E-mail.
No users have yet been able to articulate clearly whether the following is true: "You see images in the E-mail you compose, but the recipient doesn't see the images."
You seem to have a lot of issues I never run into with outlook.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
What I think is going on is there are users for whom I apparently haven't installed this registry key; thus, even though they see pictures, recipients do not see them. Some images aren't in the signature though, they're just in the body, which I don't think really matters since and image in an E-mail is just an image in an E-mail.
No users have yet been able to articulate clearly whether the following is true: "You see images in the E-mail you compose, but the recipient doesn't see the images."
You seem to have a lot of issues I never run into with outlook.
Same here... because I don't even install it.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
What I think is going on is there are users for whom I apparently haven't installed this registry key; thus, even though they see pictures, recipients do not see them. Some images aren't in the signature though, they're just in the body, which I don't think really matters since and image in an E-mail is just an image in an E-mail.
No users have yet been able to articulate clearly whether the following is true: "You see images in the E-mail you compose, but the recipient doesn't see the images."
You seem to have a lot of issues I never run into with outlook.
How often are you embedding images into HTML E-mails? Also, do you have a minimum of 3 images in your E-mail signature?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
yum, lassi
What drink is that? It looks like an Indian tea/milk thing I've had before
He is in India.
Bangalore this week, and I've had quite a few Lassi's.
i am jealous, i would like to travel over there some day
I'm scheduled, for whatever that is worth, to be in Qatar a week from tomorrow.
that would certainly be interesting too
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
What I think is going on is there are users for whom I apparently haven't installed this registry key; thus, even though they see pictures, recipients do not see them. Some images aren't in the signature though, they're just in the body, which I don't think really matters since and image in an E-mail is just an image in an E-mail.
No users have yet been able to articulate clearly whether the following is true: "You see images in the E-mail you compose, but the recipient doesn't see the images."
You seem to have a lot of issues I never run into with outlook.
How often are you embedding images into HTML E-mails? Also, do you have a minimum of 3 images in your E-mail signature?
yeah sorry don't have those issues either. are your users locked down enough?
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jaredbusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@storageninja said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
yum, lassi
What drink is that? It looks like an Indian tea/milk thing I've had before
He is in India.
Bangalore this week, and I've had quite a few Lassi's.
i am jealous, i would like to travel over there some day
I'm scheduled, for whatever that is worth, to be in Qatar a week from tomorrow.
that would certainly be interesting too
Hopefully, lol.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
What I think is going on is there are users for whom I apparently haven't installed this registry key; thus, even though they see pictures, recipients do not see them. Some images aren't in the signature though, they're just in the body, which I don't think really matters since and image in an E-mail is just an image in an E-mail.
No users have yet been able to articulate clearly whether the following is true: "You see images in the E-mail you compose, but the recipient doesn't see the images."
You seem to have a lot of issues I never run into with outlook.
How often are you embedding images into HTML E-mails? Also, do you have a minimum of 3 images in your E-mail signature?
Me? almost never - some users - ug, constantly I personally despise internal HTML email - no you don't need some stupid background picture behind your email - this is a place of business, not you at home farting around with your friends.
Images in email sig - seriously? again, are we 12? -
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
What I think is going on is there are users for whom I apparently haven't installed this registry key; thus, even though they see pictures, recipients do not see them. Some images aren't in the signature though, they're just in the body, which I don't think really matters since and image in an E-mail is just an image in an E-mail.
No users have yet been able to articulate clearly whether the following is true: "You see images in the E-mail you compose, but the recipient doesn't see the images."
You seem to have a lot of issues I never run into with outlook.
How often are you embedding images into HTML E-mails? Also, do you have a minimum of 3 images in your E-mail signature?
yeah sorry don't have those issues either. are your users locked down enough?
If I was having these kinds of issues, I would approach management and tell them that I am spending hundreds if not thousands of dollars fixing these types of issues that aren't business related. If they told me to continue, I would, but it's likely they would ask me to kill the features instead.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I wonder whether or not I'm simply kidding myself or if there truly are positions in IT that aren't primarily focused on supporting users' efforts for using Microsoft Outlook.
lol sorry can't help you there because my users all have a hard time with it too
Honestly it's not always the users. Outlook, especially how it handles images, can just be screwy.
what are some example problems so i can check?
What I think is going on is there are users for whom I apparently haven't installed this registry key; thus, even though they see pictures, recipients do not see them. Some images aren't in the signature though, they're just in the body, which I don't think really matters since and image in an E-mail is just an image in an E-mail.
No users have yet been able to articulate clearly whether the following is true: "You see images in the E-mail you compose, but the recipient doesn't see the images."
You seem to have a lot of issues I never run into with outlook.
How often are you embedding images into HTML E-mails? Also, do you have a minimum of 3 images in your E-mail signature?
Given how much time you are spending on this it might be cost effective to pitch something like Exclaimer: https://www.exclaimer.com/signature-manager-exchange-edition/.
