Posts made by AVI-NetworkGuy

@scottalanmiller said:

(Windows 10 is kernel NT 6.4.)

Windows 10 is kernel version 10. They changed it after one of the major consumer previews were released.

About your performance issues in Win 10, check your processes for misbehaving OneDrive for Business client. I've had more than one incidence with more than one user (including myself), where ODfB was running at 95% cpu or higher basically non-stop. My laptop got so hot I could barely touch it. Once I killed the process, everything cooled down and the performance recovered significantly.

Oh, also, if that happens, you may have to disconnect the library and re sync.

They need to get their shit together with this OneDrive for Business nonsense. Seriously.

If I end up coming to the conference, there is no way I'd miss hitting up those trails. Long Island has some wonderful wine out East, especially the North Fork Wine Trail (a couple were recently featured in Wine Spectator), but Finger Lakes wine is something special I've never gotten a chance to try.

@scottalanmiller said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

I remember a SW thread where Chris from Microsoft addressed this, and to upgrade your machines to 10 and image them, you have to manually run the update to 10, then go back and re-image.

To get the free upgrade, you mean? Since there is a free 8.1 -> 10 path, I could see that. Is there something similar to get from 7 -> 8?

It was my understanding that the free upgrade to Windows 10 did not include Enterprise. The upgrade to Enterprise still requires a VL agreement, so in that regard, nothing changed with the release of 10.

@scottalanmiller said:

If you want to learn CRM basics and not a specific system, SugarCRM is very popular and is free and open source. You can install it on a Linux VM quite easily. Or you can install it to a system like A Small Orange with a single click. Getting access to a common CRM to play with it would be pretty easy. Then you can say that you have deployed it as well.

Azure has an out of the box SugarCRM in the Web App gallery

You sure it isn't a borked Outlook profile on that 2016 instance?

@Ambarishrh said:

We are in the process of migrating our file server to SharePoint Online. Just wondering if any of you guys have a backup plan for SP online, to access files in case of any downtime with SP online. If so how can i do this?

Lots of posts here, so I'll just respond directly to this. Essentially, you've got two things to worry about here - DATA LOSS and CONNECTIVITY LOSS. A few thoughts on this -

1. Microsoft does all the backing up you could need and want, on a few levels. Number one, they have datacenter backups that we don't have access to. These are for when the shit really hits the fan. SharePoint, by nature, has many different ways of getting back a file. One, obviously, being version history. Second, you've got two levels of recycle bin on SharePoint. You've got the Site recycle bin and then you've got the Site Collection recycle bin, both of which have set retention (default is 30 days I believe). If that isn't good enough, you've also got the OneDrive for Business sync client that sync BOTH OD4B libraries, as well as ANY OTHER SharePoint library (yes, on-prem too - it's slick when it works). It has to be done on a library by library basis, so this certainly should NOT be considered part of any (sane) backup strategy, not to mention it's prone to sync errors.

2. With the above being said, I can understand your trepidation about not having access to files that were once happily stored on your file server (this was a gutsy move by the way - especially if it wasn't only for "User" files as opposed to real-deal NTFS shares on a Windows box somewhere on your network. SharePoint is a giant pain in the ass when it comes to file\path length and character-type limitations). We started "suggesting" to users that they take advantage of their OD4B accounts as a replacement for their "My Documents" storage. We have not started enforcing this yet because OneDrive has way too many sync issues that are going to be addressed, but haven't been yet. In fact, I was just dealing with a sync debacle as recently as yesterday. I digress. Anyway, backing up SharePoint in the cloud is a challenge and it can be costly to solve it. Essentially, there is no right answer here (as proven by the 60 plus replies here lol)

3. You mentioned your concern was downtime, so I'll address that. So it can basically come in two forms, right? One - your work ISP goes down and no one has internet access. Two - SharePoint Online goes down and the whole world can't get to it. While number 2 can certainly happen, think realistically at how possible that really is. Sure it can happen, but it's a long shot, at BEST. Looking at your ISP, I'm sure you have a nice little redundant firewall setup going so if ISP 1 goes down, ISP 2 takes over happily, right?

So to sum up, I think if you've got your head in the game with knowledge about how version history and how the recycle bin structure of SharePoint works, you really should be covered from DATA LOSS. If you've got redundant ISP's, you should be covered from CONNECTIVITY LOSS. So unless you've got some sort of regulatory requirement to back that sh*t up, I think you should be OK.

I'll still be consulting for them, so maybe I can get away with it for a while longer

@scottalanmiller said:

You are going to have to change your persona name everywhere now too! Something like "fomer-avi-networkguy".

Ugh, I know! That's probably the worst part lol.

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@scottalanmiller said:

• Python is heavily used in both software engineering as well as IT so it is very flexible as a career building language.

#truth - This was a big deal for Google when I was going for a Windows Sys Admin position with them.

@DustinB3403 said:

@AVI-NetworkGuy your paint skills are bad...

I make no assertions to being some sort of graphic artist lol. And I thank you for pointing this out.

Figured you'd like this @scottalanmiller. Found it while cleaning my desk mess out lol

#tbt

We've got one this weekend for Halloween! You're all invited

Awesome!!!

@scottalanmiller said:

The problem here, though, is that it is other doctors that are the problem

Please refer to fork in electrical socket idea.

This is interesting because I always liken being an IT Pro to being a "doctor without the great pay" (not that all doctors make a lot of money, but you get my point). Along this same line, like doctors, IT Pros are challenged with "dumbing things down" to laymen's terms with people who have little to no technical knowledge of what they are discussing with you. In fact, I think they even have curricula in some medical schools that teach you how deal with patients in terms of compassion and speaking in a way that makes sense to someone who just doesn't know what you know.

I suppose my point is that it's always tough to figure out a way to tell someone that they are doing something wrong, or thinking along the wrong lines. I find that it's always best to first put yourself into that person's shoes and imagine how you would like to be addressed by someone that you know is more knowledgeable than you. I believe that empathy is key here. Once you can properly empathize with someone (and this, admittedly, takes some practice lol), the right way to say something kind of comes natural.

With this example, I would take a tact that is along the lines of telling the person that what they are thinking might work in certain situations, but for this, we likely need to go a different route and say something like, "Here are some ideas I have that might fit exactly what you need - let's discuss this and come up with the best way to go about this." This implies that you aren't totally brushing the person off or outright telling them they suck and shouldn't touch anything that plugs into a wall unless it's a fork (ok, just kidding with that one lol)

I'm sure you've seen this story, but if you haven't it's pretty telling about how it doesn't take a coding super genius to get access to your stuff.

http://www.cnet.com/news/hackers-sweet-talked-their-way-into-the-cia-directors-email-account/

You should look into the solutions from Scale. It's pretty much exactly what you want without the complexity.

I had some good fun with this card a few weeks ago. The array attached to it lost a drive and the array was in a degraded state. There is a super fun bug with this card in an R520. The bug is if the array is in a degraded state, the server will shut down, attempt to reboot and not make it past POST. Wonderful.

For those interested in the fix -

1. Replace drive and let array rebuild to 100% (yeah, the server has to stay down until the array is in an optimal state. Sigh.)
2. Update BIOS to fix bug.
3. Server is happy again.

P.S.
This card won't be in any more of my servers.