Best posts made by alexntg

I've been upvoting A.J.'s posts. What's wrong with me? checks for a fever

@IRJ said:

How do you feel about spelling Tech as Tek in the business name? I was thinking of a business name using tech but all domains are taken. I found that using the business name with tek in it it, shows an available .com domain.

That is really personal preference. There are popular sites out there, such as tek-tips.com, but to me it ranks up there with textspeak in a negative fashion. irjtech.com is available.

@RoguePacket said:

@RAM. said:

All People Seem To Need Data People
.... OSI!!!!

"Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away"

I learned it as:
"Programmers Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away." and "Please Do Not Tell Sales People Anything."

@Nic said:

Aaaaaannnnd they got hacked. http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/20/yo-app-allegedly-hacked-by-college-students/

Remote Rickrolling. Now that's an app I'd pay for.

That's a brilliant example of a lack of proper Disaster recovery planning. With business practices like that, I'm glad they went under. I wonder if they attackers made copies of anything before they cleaned house?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@alexntg said:

.net domains were for ISPs and networking providers, so depending on your business, they may or may not be a good choice. There's always the country-specific TLDs, such as .us.

That used to be the case, but certainly isn't any more.
My office went with a .net for email (I have no idea why - I wasn't around when that decision was made).

Still is the case. Just widely abused. It you use a .net inappropriately it reflects poorly on the company - makes the look confused.

Much like this is an Italian website.

The thing with interviews is that you haven't actually lost anything. To compare it with relationships, it's like asking someone out and being rejected. It's a very different thing from being dumped. After a while, you get used to it. I've had my share of pitfalls along the way. I interview well, but in discussing the position, I more often than not get the hiring manager to realize that they need something different, thereby retooling or sometimes even eliminating the position. Needless to say, by the time I'm done talking, those jobs are no longer a good fit.

Take each interview as a learning experience and apply what you learn to the next one. Wash, rinse, repeat.

First off, it sounds like someone fed Windows 8 after midnight.

Have you tried a wipe and reload? It should be SOP for new computers, anyway.

@Minion-Queen said:

Just reach out to me tomorrow and I have Alex do that with you if you would like.

Apparently I've been volunteered.

If someone can explain why my idea's bad or why it won't work, great. If somone can't explain or back it up, I go and get one of these:

@Vladimir-Eremin said:

A small trick regarding usage of configuration backup.

If you have a network share, you can create a share disk, map it to instance of VB&R and use as a target repository for configuration backup. Should any disaster situation happen (VB&R server goes down, for instance), all you would need to do is to install Veeam on any other virtual/physcial machine and import previously backed up configuration.

Thanks.

Or, if you have the free space available, make a replica of your Veeam server and a domain controller, then put them in the same location as your backup.

@IRJ said:

I am setting up a terminal server today. From my understanding, only two users may login at a time until USER CALs are added. If I add 5 user CALs would that give me 5 users total or 5 + 2?

It's 5. The 2 is for remote administration mode, which you lose when you switch RDS server modes.

@Pol said:

@scottalanmiller We don't have privacy anymore

We haven't for a while. People are just now starting to realize it.

In OneDrive for Business, if you go to the gear button, then Site Settings>Storage Metrics, you can see the storage info.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

@alexntg said:

If someone's having a wireless issue, I'll test it against some known good APs at the office. To be impartial, I'd take it to Dunkin Donuts and see if it works there (over a latte, of course). If it works there, it's the user's problem to deal with.

This is the proper method to handle it. It is a work laptop and configured correctly for the work network. Prove it works at a a few random places on open WiFi and then tell him too bad.

Well, normally this would be true - but he's an owner and on the BOD so I can't say " uh.. to bad this is your problem because as you already mentioned it works perfectly fine at the office"

If it's the owner, housecalls are fine. Heck, if he wants you to mow the lawn, that's fine too, as long as you're on company time and earning your normal rate.

It got backburnered, but I just worked on it this morning. It worked like a charm!

@art_of_shred said:

The Geekery have been trying to make Linux "happen" in the office space for the past 30+ years. It's not happening. Get over it. Behind-the-curtain business functions, monitored and operated by geeks hiding in a closet somewhere in the building? Sure; Linux is great. Something that I have to touch, and that other business people have to share and use? Forget it! It is NOT the tool for the job. Sorry. Go back to your closet and watch YouTube vids of League of Legends tournaments...

Priceless advice there! I've tried Linux on and off for 14 years. As much as I'd like to love it, something always brings me back to Windows. As a sysadmin, I haven't seen anything like Group Policy for Linux. Perhaps I missed it somewhere?

@NetworkNerd said:

I'm down to 392 minutes now. My how time flies.

Are you calling for the network outage?

If I can get no fewer than 300 users to commit, I can build an ITAR-compliant hosted Exchange environment.

A bit on the reimaging rights. Intune with SA is a volume license. You could use the volume license media and key to reimage other computers that run the same exact product version. You could use the Win8.1 Pro media and key for other Win8.1 Pro computers. Upgrade rights are only available with SA, one device per user. Do understand that if you cancel Intune, you'd be revoking your volume license rights.