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    • RE: Backup System For 5 PC SMB

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Ah, the requirement to not have a server sounded like a NAS would not be an option since a NAS is just a type of server. That requirement was confusing. If having a NAS is acceptable we have much better options.

      Ah, perhaps that is what was confusing people.

      Yes, there has to be a place to store the local ShadowProtect/Veeam/Etc backup. But I am looking for cloud replication of those backups, because some of the places I deal with, it's not out of the realm of possibility they backup device would be stolen along with the PC.

      I was originally thinking USB drive on each machine, but a NAS would work just as well. And I know some of the NASes out there you can replicate.

      Are we getting somewhere? 😃

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    • RE: Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?

      @Breffni-Potter said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @BRRABill said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @BRRABill said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @scottalanmiller

      Of course there is never one solution.

      But many things (like cloud for a 1 person company) is usually a fit for a majority of those cases, and a great place to start a discussion.

      Yes, it is. It should be considered. But there are many options. Reselling one makes you tend to favour it.

      So, in your best estimate, out of 100 1 person companies, how many would be appropriately fit to the cloud?

      It's never that simple. If it was I could sell a book on the subject and retire early.

      Knowledge and understanding, openness to change, these factors weigh into it more than what is the "right" thing to do.

      Yes, but for the most part that group doesn't want that, IMO. They want someone they can trust that just does it for them.

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    • RE: Just How Hard is University to Overcome

      @dashrender said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

      @scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

      Some are hugely beneficial, like putting in extra hours, volunteering for projects and trying for a promotion.

      Give some specific examples please - not just generic trying for a promotion. i.e. did you go to them and say - hey I'm really good at x and you currently don't have x so you should make me the x doer?

      Have you met @scottalanmiller ?

      You know the answer to that is probably yes, right?

      Or more likely they promoted him to CEO.

      (According to his stories...)

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    • RE: Talking about MangoCon2016

      I really want to come in Tuesday and stay until Sunday, but I cannot do either of those things, and getting up at 4:30AM on Saturday for a flight makes me nauseous.

      So, I am procrastinating.

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    • RE: Backup System For 5 PC SMB

      @Dashrender said:

      Again, move away from making regular images of the endpoints. That's home user thinking, not SMB thinking.

      I'm still not sure I understand why. I would think the opposite. Home users do NOT do images. Yet, IMO an incremental image based backup is the best you can get.

      Let's take for example a 1 person accounting office or a 2 person law firm. It seems to me the method I am looking for would be more efficient for them, not less.

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    • RE: Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?

      @guyinpv said i

      People who contact me, they aren't thinking at this level, they just want it done, fast, cheap, now.

      Same here.

      And while some will say that's why they are small business and will never grow, it is what it is.

      posted in IT Business
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    • RE: HRU-Tech: credible?

      @rojoloco said in HRU-Tech: credible?:

      @scottalanmiller said in HRU-Tech: credible?:

      @gjacobse said in HRU-Tech: credible?:

      How can this company be credible with photos of other people for their staff?

      Those are obvious celebrities. They are just being trying unsuccessfully to be funny.

      FTFY.

      Come on ... IceMan is a hell of a tech.

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    • RE: Conference planning not for the faint of heart

      @Minion-Queen said in Conference planning not for the faint of heart:

      So Tuesday this week all of our conference Tshirts for both staff and attendees were to arrive. However the Women's shirts didn't, I got a box of very pretty Magenta shirts for a charity event. I call the company they track my shirts to Calgary Canada. Getting them back by end of week would be impossible so they just remade my shirts.

      They arrived on Thursday no issues. CustomInk was awesome by in dealing with all of this and the refunded some of my money.

      So this morning I get a box of tshirts from CustomInk.... guess what I have a second box of now?? Women's conference Tshirts!

      Any one want to take Tshirts home for their wives?

      That sounds like great customer service!\

      If you are serious about the wives, my wife is in IT, so she would definitely wear one for advertising! 🙂

      posted in MangoCon
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    • RE: Backup System For 5 PC SMB

      Even the 1 person company thinks they need to be up 24/7.

      They don't. it's ridiculous. But that's how they think.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?

      @JaredBusch said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @BRRABill said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      I, personally, do not think I understand what a true consultant delivers. I mean, if I go and ask for a server, correct, how many different types of servers are there?

      You do not hire a consultant if you know you need a server. you go to the vendor or VAR.

      You go to a consultant to determine the best server for your needs.

      But that is the point I think @guyinpv is trying to make.

      His customers come to HIM and say "I want a server". They trust him to pick the best solution for them.

      If it was ME, I'd ask a ton questions first ... do you really need a server? being the first.

      For example (and keep in mind this is NOT my line of work, doing this sort of stuff) a non-profit comes to me recently, with 3 users, and really, really says they need a server. I immediately explain why they don't need one. And I've been arguing back and forth with them on it. They are adamant they need one.

      posted in IT Business
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    • RE: Conference Preparations

      So just to confirm, there basically no dress code, correct?

      If so I am just packing tshirts and cargo shorts!

      posted in MangoCon
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    • RE: Backup System For 5 PC SMB

      Hey ... putting a work in asterisks makes it italics! YAY

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    • RE: Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?

      @JaredBusch said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @BRRABill said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @JaredBusch said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @BRRABill said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @Dashrender said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @JaredBusch said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @BRRABill said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @JaredBusch said

      If it is your job, you should be getting paid.
      In order to get paid, you have to bill people.
      In order to bill people you have to not do things for free.

      Agree 100%. I mean, a 5 minute discussion is OK, I think, but anything more needs billing.

      NO one said sell them something they do not need. It was stated that they came to you for a server. So sell them the server they asked for, verify the basics, yes. You are a VAR, that is your job.

      So if a 3 person non-profit church comes in and wants a $5K server. No questions asked you just sell it to them? Not me. Because I know they do not know what they need. They know the term server, but have no idea what it means, and what it is for. And how for 1/100th or less of the cost they can have a much better solution.

      No one comes to me just to buy a server, so I am never in this position, but if I was, I would tell said church person, that they have no idea what they need and they need to hire someone to actually figure that out. Me or another company I don't care, but hire someone who knows wtf they are doing to make sure you are not getting jipped.

      JB, what do you do when said church person tells you they don't care about that.. that they just want you to sell them a server? Would you?

      Or even better, when they say "yeah I'd llke to hire you"
      Then you say "OK. Tell me about yourself."
      They say "We are 3 people, with about 1GB of data stored"
      You say "You don't need a server. Get Office 365."

      Done.

      I can do that in 5 minutes without needing to charge them hundreds of dollars in consulting fees.

      That is impossible to do in 5 minutes. You just screwed them because you did not do proper discovery.

      Yeah, perhaps that was too dramatic an example. 🙂

      What I think you were driving at is no, I do not charge everyone for a conversation like that. I charge it to marketing internally. I will get paid. I did work. But I also know I have to balance what I actually bill with my marketing.

      I mean, I can say with 99% certainly no 3 person church needs a server. At least none I have ever worked with. Is there a white unicorn out there? Sure. But I'd like to think I could detect that.

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    • RE: Conference Preparations

      @Dashrender said in Conference Preparations:

      @travisdh1 said in Conference Preparations:

      @Dashrender said in Conference Preparations:

      @Minion-Queen said in Conference Preparations:

      Yes the LEtchworth Park tour is well at Letchworth Park.

      We actually have to be out of the conference space by 12pm on Friday night. So we will have to fully pack up etc.

      So what are the hours on the event? Thursday 8-7 and Friday 8-11a?

      I think @Minion-Queen means midnight, not noon @Dashrender. So probably Fri. 8a-10p.

      Oh.. good! I was thinking this was going to be a super short short event.

      That whole does 12:00:00 belong to the time before or the time coming up...

      Countdown to @scottalanmiller referencing UTC in 5...4...3...

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    • RE: Backup System For 5 PC SMB

      @Jason said:

      But, no one is doing that for desktops.

      Ouch, baby, ouch. LOL.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?

      @guyinpv said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      @scottalanmiller said in Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?:

      Just don't do the reselling portion Like you said, it's trivial money, no skin off your back. So just skip it, problem solved.

      Well yes, trivial. Like maybe the tune of $400 in the last few years? Thus I've only thought of it as bonus money, pocket money, lunch money, coffee money. Not something that changes my entire business model, focus, and how I go about working for people.

      Honestly, for that, I wouldn't bother to be thrown into this pit.

      Not that $400 is nothing, but to open this kind of can of worms...

      posted in IT Business
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    • RE: Brace yourselves MangoCON is COMING!!!!!

      Hmmm, now I don't feel so bad being on a smallish American Airlines plane.

      If you consider 50 seats small.

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    • RE: Backup System For 5 PC SMB

      I was seriously interested in what he is doing at home.

      posted in IT Discussion
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    • RE: Home business ideas for transition out of 9-5?

      @guyinpv said

      Do you care if you hire a mobile car mechanic and they install a starter from ABC company that they get a kickback for ABC starters? OMG I thought my mechanic was going to have pure, unbiased opinions about starters! Na, probably not, probably they install all their starters from ABC because they've found over the years they have the least amount of problems with them, they last a long time, have good warranties, etc.

      I believe the response to this is going to be:

      "Yes, but he mechanic is a VAR. It is understood he has a relationship with a parts house. He is not giving you a recommendation on what part is best."

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    • RE: Wednesday - Dinosaur BBQ Lunch Plans

      @thwr said in Wednesday - Dinosaur BBQ Lunch Plans:

      @DustinB3403 said in Wednesday - Dinosaur BBQ Lunch Plans:

      If for some reason people get to Dinosaur BBQ before me the reservation is in my name.

      Igor?

      F. Flintstone.

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