Would it be possible to add some informative text? New visitors don't necessarily know what the site's about.

I know the feeling. SMBs are much like the residential clients. They know it's bad for them, but still do it anyway. If it makes you feel any better, depending on the email platform you both use, the email may be encrypted in transit anyway.

Enterprise clients are generally better security-wise for the most part, though do have their own headaches to deal with.

This post covered it a little while ago:
http://www.mangolassi.it/topic/741/need-help-with-ou-s#12186 - that seems to be a decent structure

I just took a detour and banged out the Veeam Backup Academy Cert.

The mat is tiny. It would make more sense to pick one up from Grainger.

It would be cleaner and less disconcerting. Right now, it looks like Twitter vomited on the main page.

@Dominica said:

@IRJ said:

He wants MJ....

What does it say that the first thing I thought of was he wanted MJ from Spiderman, and the distant second was the other kind of MJ? I'm pretty sure I'm a super nerd.

I was thinking Michael Jackson, especially with the next post being about him being a young guy.

How's the streaming from a compatible nVidia graphics card?

@scottalanmiller said:

If only it were on a good network. But we'll never know.

Your mileage may vary. I've maintained a fleet of 40 AT&T phones, and they've had excellent service throughout the country, as well as in Europe, China, and even Mauritius.

Mystery thread from Slade02...

It's a decent AV product. The system impact's pretty light, and it's ok at detection rates. I did note an issue a while back where it breaks the ability of XP to access files in a Server 2012 deduplicated volume, but otherwise, it hasn't been invasive.

Do you have your to-do pane enabled? If so, you can show both your appointments and tasks.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

For an entry-level employee, I can see doing some prepwork. For an experienced employee, a typical rite of passage often is having them set up their own workstation, join it to the domain, etc. Watching how they go about this and paying attentention to the questions they ask will give great insight on how to go about training them in an effective fashion.

Few large companies would give desktop admin rights to average IT folk. And far fewer would let them join to the domain.

Most larger companies would use something like SCCM or VDI, so joining the computer to the domain would have already been done.

I don't think that VDI is as common as you would imagine. I've yet to hear of Fortune 500s even discussing it yet. I only work in so many, but from what I've been seeing it is a long way off from common adoption for normal users in the large space. It seems to be mostly small companies doing it. I'm sure some large companies are going that way, but I've not seen it not really heard about it. Now small companies, I hear them doing it every day.

I'm familiar with a Fortune 100 that's working on implementing VDI. Bigger companies are doing it, but it's more of a phase-in process. Because of this, it isn't as widely known. Most implementations start with a PoC at a smaller division, then grow from there.

I heard back from the meeting organizer. Apparently it's an appointement for them, not a meeting, but they included me in it for FYI purposes. Back to my regularly scheduled program.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector for three years I've asked for people to provide math on when RAID 5 would be acceptable. That's a lot if vetting. Not letting people get away with being idiots isn't the same as needing to be right.

But let's face it, once name calling is needed, the argument was already conceded.

I'm not a math person, admittedly. Number crunching has never been my thing. As far as RAID 5 usage goes, any place where fault tolerance would be a benefit, as well as pooled drive capacity would be a good fit. For example, backup targets or DAG member databases are great uses for it.

Mission-critical or high-performance workloads would not be good choices.

RAID 5 doesn't fit in those cases, that's the problem. "Fault Tolerance" has become a marketing term that people through around to hide behind. Fault tolerance is a horrible thing if it makes the system more fragile. Like the houses in a hurricane example. Two straw houses versus one brick house. One is redundant or "fault tolerant" and the other is reliable. Sure, two brick houses would be even better still, but that's not the point. Between the two available choices, the redundancy actually introduces the fragility by forces us to increase the failure rate to begin with.

This is why RAID 5 is always bad, it increases the risk out of the gate and effectively does nothing to fix it. The fault tolerant aspects of it are a farce in situations where it is cheap and the cost of making the fault tolerance work makes it too expensive. So RAID 5 either is a bad choice because it lacks the protection that people imagine or it cost to much and is just flaunting that you don't care about spending wisely. Both bad use cases.

How would RAID 5 be riskier than RAID 0, which would be the other high-capacity option? With 0, if you lose a drive, you lose the array. With 5, if you lose a drive, there's a chance you might lose the array.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

For an entry-level employee, I can see doing some prepwork. For an experienced employee, a typical rite of passage often is having them set up their own workstation, join it to the domain, etc. Watching how they go about this and paying attentention to the questions they ask will give great insight on how to go about training them in an effective fashion.

Few large companies would give desktop admin rights to average IT folk. And far fewer would let them join to the domain.

Most larger companies would use something like SCCM or VDI, so joining the computer to the domain would have already been done.

Right now, I'm online for a meeting, not sure why there's one on a Saturday, or why I'm even on the invite list for that matter, and the meeting organizer doesn't appear to be online.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector for three years I've asked for people to provide math on when RAID 5 would be acceptable. That's a lot if vetting. Not letting people get away with being idiots isn't the same as needing to be right.

But let's face it, once name calling is needed, the argument was already conceded.

I'm not a math person, admittedly. Number crunching has never been my thing. As far as RAID 5 usage goes, any place where fault tolerance would be a benefit, as well as pooled drive capacity would be a good fit. For example, backup targets or DAG member databases are great uses for it.

Mission-critical or high-performance workloads would not be good choices.

For an entry-level employee, I can see doing some prepwork. For an experienced employee, a typical rite of passage often is having them set up their own workstation, join it to the domain, etc. Watching how they go about this and paying attentention to the questions they ask will give great insight on how to go about training them in an effective fashion.

Have you started issuing deadlines for updates?