Posts made by alexntg

Depending on the environment, I use tools like SCCM, LANDesk, VMware Horizon View, and Group Policy. They all allow for a test group to be run prior to going into production.

OK, MS Office licensing for RDP, in a nutshell:
Any device accessing an RDP server with Office installed must have a license for the same edition and version of Office on it. If you have Office Standard on the server, Home and Business on the workstations won't count. If you Have ProPlus on the server, you'd need the same on the client computers. Even if you don't install Office on the client computers, they must be covered by a license.

Generally speaking, this needs to happen through volume licensing. The one exception is with Office 365 and ProPlus on the server. If the end-user is covered by a ProPlus subscription, they're eligible to access an RDP server with ProPlus installed.

This goes for Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Terminal services, and similar third-party setups, such as Citrix XenApp.

@scottalanmiller said:

SSD are okay in RAID 5 too.

RAID5 SSDs seem a bit overkill for a system drive.

@technobabble said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Use SSD no matter what. Best investment for a desktop.

The last SSD I used died a horrible death 2 months ago. It was less than a year old. Many times a day it would show 100% disk usage and my PC would come to a crawl. I am guessing that I just had a lemon.

In that case, perhaps SSD system drive in RAID1

MAP would work; we use that with our clients. Also, if you have Spiceworks, you'd be able to glean much of that information as well.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

Splunk. It's pretty straightfoward to get up and running, and gives you a great centralized view of what's going on with your logs.

We've had it in the past and I've used it at a lot if non-NTG locations. It is very nice but there is something awesome about SaaS too.

Splunk also offers SaaS.

If you're considering running multiple VMs on your computer rather than running them on a server, you're going to need more IOPS. Consider using an SSD for a system drive and perhaps some tiered storage, such as Windows Storage Spaces, for your VM and data volume.

Splunk. It's pretty straightfoward to get up and running, and gives you a great centralized view of what's going on with your logs.

It sounds like your company's becoming not just a single company, but a bit of a holdings firm/small conglomerate. What's normal for those setups is to have a centralized domain and infrastructure for the entire group, Each division could have its own base OU and have delegated permissions off of that. You could have Site A and Site X as separate entities within the companygroup.com domain, for example. With a modern AD environment, there's no reason to have more than one domain. It'd be a little bit of work to get it all implemented, but not that difficult.

It's always nice to see a new Webroot user!

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller Do you think you can make this in your home?

Pizza is meant to be thin

Sure, if you're into crispy cardboard.

Try Nancy's Pizza! http://www.nancyspizza.com

I tend to see this with larger companies, and it's pretty common. To put it in a nutshell, it's all talk until the offer letter's in your hand.

Does ctrl+break work?

I wish I could help more; I'm in ESXi all the time, but not in Linux. Ctrl+C isn't really used much in modern Windows.

@IRJ said:

This happened again today. Except it was my primary monitor. Once again a reboot fixed this.

Is this happening to anyone else?

I really don't use the charms, so even if it was happening, I wouldn't notice.

@Dashrender said:

@alexntg said:

Perhaps it's time to look at Kyocera?

Oh god, please NO!

Canon, then?

Seriously, though, if it's an issue with the local copier company, time to get a new one. If it's an issue with the product, it's time to look at a different product. If you get on a first-name basis with your copier tech, it's very much not a good thing.

I forgot to mention Theory of Constraints. It's a great way to shake up old procedures, provided they're the bottleneck. Furthermore, it can sometimes shake up headcount if some people refuse to change. This is a practice that I enjoy, as it closely mirrors what sysadmins and network admins do on a regular basis, except it's at a corporate level. One of the challenges with this can be bumping into standards and regulations. When making procedure changes, don't forget to keep your compliance officer/group in the loop so that they can make sure all the appropriate standards still apply.

Not every organized, busy professional is a Sue. There are many folks out there, myself included, that will be busy and keep going. If we run out of work, we ask for more. If there's nothing left to do, then we wait for more work or find something to tweak until we have an assignment. Actively finding work to do is different from randomly creating aimless busywork. Is Bob looking for more work after he completes what he's been given, or is he just slacking off until he's forced to do something? If it's the latter, please fire Bob. If Sue could be asking for more work and instead is creating busywork, she should be out the door right behind Bob.

What I see a lot of managers failing to do is assigning low-priority side projects. When there's nothing pressing going on, the employee can turn to their side project to further it along. If an employee has a side project, they should always be busy, yet be able to pick up important things as needed. A great side project is a process or system that's working, but could be working better. Setting up system imaging instead of manual OS installs is an example of a good side project. There will be good benefit from it when completed, but the company's running fine without it.

For mailboxes like that, Midsize isn't an option. They'll need E3, unless they already have Office 2013 ProPlus via volume license.

Perhaps it's time to look at Kyocera?

@technobabble said:

I understand. If anything goes down, the company and doctors can't work. However it hasn't happened yet and therefore it is considered back burner stuff. rolling eyes. They provide the program over the internet and yet they still haven't allowed a secondary/backup ISP. We have a dual Wan router ready and waiting for the backup internet connection. Of course if they move to the data center, then it will have the ISP redundancy.

Let me rephrase. I can't go further until I have RPO/RTO info. It's impossible to spec out the appropriate equipment for the project until I know what it needs to be built to. It's a 10-minute conversation that you need to have with management.