I was using Firefox 28 on Server 2008R2, but my browser just updated a moment ago to 29. Let's see if that helps.

I'm sure you've probably tried, but is there any chance of talking them into going with ESXi instead?

What we see companies do, simply from an ease of management and licensing, is to put users on a ProPlus subscription or E3 from Office 365. That way, everyone's covered regardless of what they do. It may not be the least hard cost method, but there's no concern over compliance anymore.

@technobabble said:

After rereading everyones post, I understand that an Office license is needed per user of server. Paying for the 20 users is cool, paying for the other 40 because they have to login to the same server to use a different product seems crazy.

If that's the way the licensing works, I would have to build another RDP server just for Office so those 20 users can use office. Any reason that won't work?

That would do the trick. make sure to lock RDS permissions down on the original server once complete.

@Dashrender said:

I haven't dug into any of those yet, but what makes them better than Ubiquiti?

Not to be a smartass, but not locking up is a great start. There's nothing special or amazing about the Netgear APs. The Apple products just run; I've had mine for 4 years and haven't had a single issue with it so far. They do, however, require a separate configuration utility, which may or may not be a good thing, depending on personal preference.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@JaredBusch said:

@alexntg said:

Aw, shucks! You should have said something before you bought it. Those things have been a pain for our clients.

I have them all over the place and they have been working great.

Our clients are having issues with them randomly going offline until power cycled.

Has the vendor been engaged?

Not at present. In one case, they're also seeing poor performance with Mac clients for no explicable reason. In this case, they're considering replacing them with something else, though are having us look into the Mac issue in the interim.

@Dashrender said:

Alex, aren't your clients Scott's clients?

what would you recommend?

For advanced-user home use? Netgear makes some reasonable entry-level business APs. For the Apple-oriented household, Apple AirPorts can be configured for AP mode. If you're looking to go all-out with features like captive portals, VLANs, and central management, a jump up to Meraki may be an option, if one plans to get some heavy use out of it.

@JaredBusch said:

@alexntg said:

Aw, shucks! You should have said something before you bought it. Those things have been a pain for our clients.

I have them all over the place and they have been working great.

Our clients are having issues with them randomly going offline until power cycled.

@technobabble said:

I just tried with my Sprint Galaxy S3 (wi-fi) pages came in fast, but there was no box "Click here to return to your last position or close to discard"

That rarely ever shows up for me on my desktop.

@JaredBusch said:

Mine shows 25GB

Looks like it's not live quite yet. Here's the MS article: http://blogs.office.com/2014/04/28/thinking-outside-the-box/

Aw, shucks! You should have said something before you bought it. Those things have been a pain for our clients.

@technobabble said:

VM's would run on the data drive, correct?

Correct.

@scottalanmiller said:

Not the same idea. With SVN, for example, we can look up changes over time, do rollbacks, see who committed changes, deploy to other systems, do comparisons.

Both are good to have but version control is a different thing than those technologies.

I'm not sure about device comparison, but LANDesk does the remainder. It logs every action taken. if you push out a bad patch or package, you can roll it back/call the uninstaller.

With virtual PCs, make sure that you're also covering yourself for Windows with those virtual OSEs.

@scottalanmiller said:

Project Management of the RMS Titanic and the Olympic Ships

What does that have to do with stupid people getting themselves killed?

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

SSD are okay in RAID 5 too.

RAID5 SSDs seem a bit overkill for a system drive.

So does RAID 1

The OP expressed concern about their SSD failing. RAID1 would alleviate that. I don't see the justification of the third drive's cost.

Potentially smaller, cheaper drives.

It's the system drive, not a data drive. A basic 120GB drive would work just fine.

Edit: Besides, by the time you get a RAID5 card installed, it'd overshoot the cost of the drive.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

SSD are okay in RAID 5 too.

RAID5 SSDs seem a bit overkill for a system drive.

So does RAID 1

The OP expressed concern about their SSD failing. RAID1 would alleviate that. I don't see the justification of the third drive's cost.

Using ProPlus as an example, if you have 30 computers with ProPlus installed, 30 without, and 30 thin clients, you'd need 60 licenses in addition to the existing 30 installed on the first group of machines. Even though the device doesn't have Office installed on it, it needs to be covered by a license.

In that case, someone's prior suggestion of a basic workstation and an ESXi host would be the way to go. Don't use Hyper-V.

Do I sense a contender for the Darwin Awards?