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@Dashrender said in Working with SharePoint Online in Windows:

Would someone please add some tags to this? Great thing to be able to find in the future.

Done

@Carnival-Boy said in Best way for teenager to learn to develop a game:

Like I said above, he likes programming Python, nothing to do with gaming.

Good deal, then. Then Python game programming is likely the place to start. Leverage what he likes.

@carnival-boy said in Yet another SharePoint thread:

It's included in our O365 subscription so there is no cost or licensing issues. I'm not sure what you mean by overhead of management. What kind of performance and end user problems have you experienced?

Cost and Licensing: Yes, you have paid for Sharepoint in a bundle, but you are still paying for it. In the E4 breakout, it's $4/mo of the $20/mo total. And you need to pay for that for everyone who uses it. Most organizations have lots of exceptions that would only need that one thing, but have to pay for more or whatever just for that one thing.

Cost of Management: Sharepoint takes a bit of time and effort to maintain. Plus backups, if you want any protection from mistakes on the client end, isn't included so is both effort and money. Sharepoint requires training and work to keep working

Performance: The system, especially through O365, is very slow and cumbersome to use. It's just not fast so people get frustrated with it.

End User: We found our less technical end users unable to cope with basic data management concepts and would throw data all over Sharepoint because they couldn't understand basic things like tagging, filtering and metadata

It could be a lot different...

Wake up with the sun. Eat a little something. Scare away / stop some bears and wolves. Work on your house/hut. Hike to the fresh water river or water hole to bring back some drinking water. Go out hunting for food for the family to survive. Be back before sundown with hopefully a nice catch. Prepare and cook it. Use other parts for clothing/accessories/tools. Sing around the camp fire, go to bed.

@RojoLoco said in CloudAtCost:

@dafyre The towel is $19.99, they throw in the creepy guy as a bonus! Just pay the $9/month maintenance fee...

Shit to maintain a human man for only $9 a month I may just buy the towel. . .

@markl said in Best MDM for SMB:

@carnival-boy What was the pricing like?

I vaguely remember it being in $8 per device per month range. Also, they were giving 100 free devices, but the moment you pay those go away. IE if you have 101 devices, you pay for 101 devices. if you have 100 devices you can keep it free.

@Dashrender said in Netgear woes:

@dbeato said in Netgear woes:

@Carnival-Boy said in Netgear woes:

@scottalanmiller said in Netgear woes:

@Carnival-Boy said in Netgear woes:

Had a drive failure on an 11 month old ReadyNAS. Trying to arrange a replacement and Netgear say they need "credit card details for collateral". As an IT department, we don't generally have, or use, credit cards, so this is going to be a pain.

Is this normal?

Yes, this is the standard process for this category of products. This is what is called "SMB equipment", not enterprise. Support is a key difference and SMB world stuff expects credit cards, more often than not. Same from every vendor in this category.

Fine, I guess you've changed your opinion from this thread though?

@scottalanmiller said in Buffalo NAS Return Policy Review:

Right, but in IT we never seen this. This just indicates that Buffalo is consumer gear, not business gear. A business might not even have a credit card. What a weird thing to request! Even businesses that have CCs, rarely do they have a workflow that would allow IT to use it for this. Business and IT just don't work this way. No valid vendor could.

How do you know what is enterprise and what is SMB? In future I'll try and stick with HP & HPE. The only other vendor I've started buying from is Ubiquiti. Is this how they work to?

Ubiquiti does not work that way but they take a while to send you a replacement at times.

This price is so low on Ubiquiti stuff, if I have a failure, I expect to get faster response with next day delivery from Amazon.

Right, under $100 when needed and you get next day or in Texas, same day!

I just happened stumbled upon Trello having been purchased by Atlassian. I had no idea.

Lead management.
Run targeted marketing campaigns.
Campaign analysis.
End user warranty database.

That's pretty much it at the moment.

We already use Dynamics NAV for ERP, and Microsoft CRM integrates nicely. Or at least it did, I guess with Dynamics 365, all bets are off - especially as it currently only includes AX rather than NAV as the financials side of the product.

Yes. The main file store is on OD4B.
SkyKick backing up the data on 365 servers and a backup is taken off the desktop on a few machines, so there is another layer of backup.

@scottalanmiller said in PAWs.:

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@Carnival-Boy said in PAWs.:

Thanks. Looks like I'm ok to give it a miss then.

Moving on, how about LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution)?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899

I have to confess my attitude towards local admin accounts has been lax at best, and I need to change. I don't know whether to implement LAPS or just store local admin account passwords in Keepass or similar (or even Excel).

We set-up all computers with the same local admin account and secure password e.g. LOCADMIN - ImSecure!12
Only the IT Team know this and it isn't written down anywhere.

Virginia State agency goes beyond the 'LOCADMIN - ImSecure!12' in that they change ALL Admin creds every 30 days.... what a pain

:-S -- I hope they have a way to automate that!

Like a printer that prints PostIt Notes with the new password and a robot that goes around sticking them to everyone's monitors?

Well crap... You just stole my idea.

@scottalanmiller said in Fonts: an idiot's guide:

@Breffni-Potter said in Fonts: an idiot's guide:

In branding, you normally have a corporate font, which goes on signage, posters, logos, business cards, properly designed materials.

NTG does that. We only use the one, though. We don't have official font(s) for things like literature, just for the brand name.

Umm...congratulations?

@Dashrender said in Considering a New VPN:

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@scottalanmiller said in Considering a New VPN:

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@Carnival-Boy said in Considering a New VPN:

Yeah, I need hub and spoke really. But that's not too difficult to setup on ZeroTier is it?

ZeroTier doesn't offer hub and spoke at all. It's pure SDN / mesh.

This is not true, ZeroTier has gateway functionality.
https://www.zerotier.com/community/topic/5/bridging-ethernet-to-zerotier-virtual-networks-on-linux

I was leaving that out for simplicity as he's not going to build custom Linux systems for this.

Why? Because a single VM setup as a gateway means that ZT now meets all needs also.

No different than replacing a router, etc.

I've not used it, does it require you to change your IP range or can you keep what you have?

The biggest recommendation is to make it inclusive of your LAN subnet so make life easier. I've not had the time to set it up on my lab yet.

I use ZT in a number of places, but not using the gateway anywhere yet.

Right, so being inclusive means that you did follow Scott's recommendation, only that you bent ZT to the current setup, instead of making a whole new IP setup with this in mind.

Did that solve all of the Windows DNS issues?

I have no idea WTF you are talking about. You are implying and inferring things that are not being discussed here.

@scottalanmiller said in XP Mode on Windows 10:

So if you get Windows 10, get an XP media, get SA rights... you are free to install XP!

Er, I know, that's what I just said.

Yeah. Its ok in this weather as I have a coat with loads of pockets. Might be more of a pain in the summer.

My guess would be a lot of it would be general IT work as IT departments have to separate to focus on the two regions. Businesses that used to use unified IT between the EU and UK will need to have local workers in both regions in some cases.

If your company happens to have paid Github accounts, you can try Gitter which is free and create private channels/groups.
Gitter is pretty cool by default but on free Github accounts your essentially in public chat.

Slack now has audio too.

Not saying you shouldn't try Skype, I haven't used it in a couple years, I just never liked it. It was like an app that didn't know what it wanted to be when it grew up, so it was very clunky at any particular feature. Mediocre voice, mediocre chat, etc.

@Breffni-Potter said in HP Elite x2 - HP's Microsoft Surface killer:

HP are fast heading into a don't buy list for me. Every time I deal with them or their products it is a head-ache.

I LOVE HP products, I like their ethos and I don't like Dell's sales tactics but too many things keep pushing me away.

Ha we've had the opposite. Dell has been kind of a disaster for us. Ha who knows.

@guyinpv said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:

One week ago (8/25/16) I did an upgrade to Win10 and was able to get it free.

Basically the customer had used the free upgrade tool (you know, the annoying system tray icon thingy) but instead of upgrading he had it create the install media and put it on USB stick.

Well last week I took his USB stick and did a clean install, formatting the drive. Of course it was not activated, and I did not put in a key during install.

Lo and behold, we went to the activation and stuck his Win7 key in there and it accepted it and activated digital entitlement! I was quite surprised.

Two possible reasons:

Microsoft has really not fully shut down the free program. Creating the install media DURING the free period somehow allows it to still activate when used later.

If you happen to have install media created from the upgrade tool, it could be gold!

I wouldn't call it not shutting down the program, it's just not actively blocking it.... Yet. They might, they might not. But any activations now are not officially supported or guaranteed. You are just lucky. But might be lucky forever. But it's at their mercy.