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I see where he is coming from. Asking a question on this forum can be intimidating. For me personally I love it, I like being proven wrong, I like going to head to head. I have never won a debate with @scottalanmiller, and I like that, I learn from it. From what I have gathered in life a vast majority of people don't like this feeling, and take it personally.

Same here.

In fact, there was a little bit where I slowed in asking questions, because of the BS some people posted against me.

But that didn't last long. I said "F IT" and just posted what I wanted to. I'm here to learn and grow, and if people don't like it, they can ignore me.

Most people here are happy to help.

@Nic said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@BRRABill said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@Nic said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@BRRABill said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

@Nic

Will you still be giving out 1 year trials?

While I still have them :)

There was subtle Internet humor in my joke.

I wasn't talking about Webroot codes. :)

Ah, I missed that. I'll have gifts for visitors, but I won't be able to send them outside of Colorado :)

I've said it before, I'll say it again.

MangoCon 201X ... Colorado!

:)

This thread is nowhere near as dirty as I thought...

@DenisKelley said in Time for me to move on from Webroot:

Nice threadjack guys.

Here at ML, this is merely called a thread. :)

First off: hello everyone! (First post!) :smiley:

So, I did a bunch of storage research before buying my latest server. The server I eventually ended up with was a DELL T320, with the PERC H310 card. I outfitted it with (2) 500GB 7.2K SATA drives in a RAID 1 array. The thinking was I was going to put a 2012 hypervisor on that array, and then use my own SSD drives for the VMs. This server will be used as a DC, and also either a moderate use file server or email server for a 20 person SMB.

I worked directly with Kingston, and received some trial SSD drives (KC300). The drives work, but as many here have probably seen, they constantly flash amber, throw up a lot of errors in Server Administrator, and of course provide no SMART monitoring or advanced warnings. I'm a little nervous at some point this is going to come back and bite me.

So now I am rethinking this whole thing, and where I should go from here. Even though you cannot buy them like this from DELL, I've been told the server can run SATA and SAS concurrently, so I think I have a lot of options. This server is new so data is not a concern.

Would love to hear any thoughts about my situation, or answers to the following questions.

Thanks in advance!

1. Am I nuts to consider these third party SSDs without any monitoring or predictive failure?

2. Would it make sense to trash the 7.2K drives, and just buy (4) SAS 10K drives for in there and make one big RAID 10 array?

3. Considering what I already have and our requirements, would it just make sense to buy a few more 7.2K drives and make a RAID 10 array out of them? Is there a huge performance difference between those two arrays? (7.2K vs. 10K both in a RAID 10.)

4. Sub question: where did 15K SAS drives go? DELL doesn't really offer them any more.

5. Do people buy the PERC H310? Seems like the H710 is mentioned a lot.

@MattSpeller

http://devour.com/video/yule-log-with-nick-offerman/

In my journey to enlightenment via MS licensing, I figure I'll have more stuff pop into my head. Just such a thing just happened.

I figured I'd post the time of the thought in the topic title, and separate the thoughts into threads.

THE QUESTION:
I know with an OEM license you are not allowed to image a Windows desktop So, no regular imaging, or no BMR to new hardware.

Are you allowed to image the hard drive to a new hard drive for the same system to swap out the drive? Such as when upgrading to a SSD?

@MattSpeller said:

Scale of 1-10, how tempted are you now to select all -> delete?

He doesn't need to. He has a macro already set.

"Intersting. You should check out mangolassi.it"
"Intersting. You should check out mangolassi.it"
"Intersting. You should check out mangolassi.it"
"Intersting. You should check out mangolassi.it"

@scottalanmiller said:

Huh, don't see any of that crap here... oh wait, I run Linux.

You sound like the Android people around here who always say to the iPhone users "Hey how do you change your battery? Ohhhhhh, you can't."

@dashrender

Nothing, really.

I tried saving money buying 3rd party drives from Xbyte, and every couple of days my server would either freeze or reboot, I forget.

Never figured out why, but XByte replaced them and we've never looked back.

@dashrender

It was fort DELL, and switched back to the DELL drives.

Lesson learned.

Worked for some, but not in my scenario.

Wow ... it's been a month since I asked this!

From the responses, I guess there is a third little piece of this, in RMM and also how much I want control over my user machines.

In many ways, I was almost considering them all just having fresh installs, like they went out and bought a new laptop from Best Buy, and now want to attach to Office365.

The files will be there, they can collaborate. Do I really need to provide anything else?

We are currently using an RMM solution still so I can run scripts and assist remotely if needed.

Can also just buy an adapter.

I have a whole slew of them in my laptop bag.

USB-C to HDMI
USB-C to VGA
etc
etc

@scottalanmiller

Just

a) logging into our machines
b) network security

@IRJ

This is the screen I get.

I deleted everything. Then you re-enter the gateway, and it will ask you for your password.

@Obsolesce said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

For your local devices, you can use only Azure AD for logging in to your PCs. You don't need local AD for that. You also don't need Intune or anything for just basic oversight.

Yeah I didn't even think about that ... logging in after the local DC goes away.

Are you using any local (apps on your PC) that explicitly use your on-prem AD for authentication and/or other data?

No.

Okay, so you already have licensing and already have that whole thing going on. I'd keep using it. Do you have your local AD synchronizing users, passwords, etc. via AADConnect to Azure AD for your use of Office 365, email, etc.? Or, are you using local AD for logging into your Windows devices and AAD for O365 authentication?

Correct. Local AD for machines and data security. Then we log onto O365 separately. (Which is what I am assuming you mean by Azure AD (AAD).)

Some would answer your questions, others would veer off outside of contexts and dive into other assumptions to discredit others based off of un-dotted i's and un-crossed t's.

But that is every post. :)

What SaaS are you using, or apps are you using that uses authentication besides O365?
Nothing, really.

Unless I am misunderstanding your question.

@IRJ said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@PhlipElder said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

So our company has finally decided to make the jump to all remote.

We are small (let's say 10 people) but we used to be large, so we have a AD domain.

You can do it, but I do suggest keeping a small domain controller on-premises for simplicity in management.

There is no on prem and using Colo for this would be wasteful. You don't gain anything from it.

Yeah, literally no prem anymore.

I guess the question is ... do we just scrap our AD, and use our Office365 accounts to log in. Do we really need anything more than that?