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Was the account setup as new on the iphone 7, or was it moved over from a icloud/itunes backup?

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just licensed the first of 3 servers for Windows Server 2016.

Are you doing individual licensing, or datacenter licensing?

Datacenter pricing just didn't quite make sense for me yet... especially as I'm moving workloads to linux when i can.

Smart move!

I'm also migrating Exchange to O365, so that frees up 3 vms with Windows Server Standard licensing.

@fuznutz04 said in Internet Pricing Poll:

@brianlittlejohn said in Internet Pricing Poll:

I pay $50 for 200/20

I'm assuming that is fiber? Where are you located?

That's also my home. At work I have 30/30 Fiber... but it is way more expensive... $400ish

@IRJ Turn off cellular data for that app maybe?

Here is the table of contents of Scott's guide.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/7825/sam-learning-linux-system-administration

@RojoLoco said:

@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Preparing for weekend 2 of my email migration to Office 365.

Here's hoping you get it wrapped up before the holiday.

I plan on doing a majority of it over the holiday since it will be a long break with no one using the internet at the office.

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1910885-recover-data-from-raid-0-that-was-deleted-in-ahci-form

He had "important" data in RAID 0 and quick formatted one of the drives with no backup. Then won't accept advice to send the drives to professional service.

@thanksajdotcom said in What are you listening to? What would you recommend?:

@scottalanmiller
Youtube Video

I love the line "I'm on Linux bitch, I thought you GNU"

@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:

@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:

@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:

@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:

@dafyre said in Office365 Considerations:

@NetworkNerd said in Office365 Considerations:

How do you like the built-in spam protection with O365? Does it do a good job to prevent spoofing and malicious links?

It does an excellent job here. The only spam I get is junk I signed up for, ha ha.

Do you use eDiscovery functionalities of O365 at all? If so, how do you like it?

I know we do use it, but I don't have access to it, so I can't help you there.

What about effort it took to get your environment to O365? Were there any big tweaks to AD needed? I had a reseller tell me they normally have to do 8 or more hours of work to AD to get things "working."

AD does not get touched. You just run a sync tool to sync your AD to Azure AD.

The only time AD gets touched is if you have to add a UPN Alias to match your external domain.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Internet is so bad here (back in Houston) that Skype won't connect. ML is slow, but works.

Did you unplug it and plug it back in? lol

If there is an Apple Store close by, they have classes as well.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

But it's also a lesson in reasons to have a backup ISP, even at the level of the Level 3 folks.

Yes, there is no level at which you can get away from redundancy ISPs.

This is a good thing... But everybody needs a second ISP... Hopefully one that doesn't depend on L3, lol.

My primary doesn't depend on Level3!

@Minion-Queen said in PolyCom550 MWI:

I hate PolyCom phones grrr......

They are almost as bad as dealing with Cisco phones...

I'm done at 11:30 CST this morning! 35 more minutes!

@scottalanmiller said in analog video stream:

@DustinB3403 said in analog video stream:

@Mike-Davis said in analog video stream:

@DustinB3403 There isn't a budget. Someone bought two TVs, and then came to me and asked me what else they needed. I guessing the TVs aren't smart TVs. Even if they are, I just tried taking a Foscam camera I had and going to it from the web browser in my samsung smart TV. It flat out didn't work. I could get to the web page, but the "server push" mode wouldn't work. (I knew the Active X mode wasn't going to work.) On my laptop, I only get audio if I download a plug in, so I don't think a camera like that is going to work on most TVs.

The other camera I have on my bench is a Ubiquiti Unifi G3 dome. I know I can't view that with a browser, so I'm going to have to set up a server just to test that unless I'm missing something.

Something you might be able to do which may be easier is to use an IP camera, and OBS, use the IP camera as a source within OBS and then make a youtube stream.

I've not got to try this before personally (using OBS and an IP camera) but I can't imagine it's not doable.

Oh, that's a potentially good idea. Get the video to YouTube then you don't have to worry about compatibility. The only issue is bandwidth.

Broadcasting on Youtube could bring in a whole new set of licensing issues for the music used during the service... just a thought.

@thanksajdotcom said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Don't Drink and Drive Mario Kart is alot of fun!

It should be just the router. I have never set one up this way though, I've always had the DHCP Server on the same subnet.

I've always been more scared of Google than any three letter agency out there.

In office 365 I have all of my users on O365 Business Premium, however, for a few of my users they connect to my RDS Server to access Quickbooks (I know...its bad... haha) and Business Premium doesn't allowed shared computer activation, but Office 365 E3 does. I know I can have both subscriptions coexist in my tenant, but does switching licensing mess with the Exchange Mailbox or should I be good to switch those users to E3 without worrying about losing their mailbox?

This is the desk I have in my office.