The bullying thing in general just annoys me. I truly wonder how much is real bullying vs children just learning the pecking order?

We, in American society, have change our approach with our children in general to one where we believe our children are all special. But this certainly can't be the case. If everyone is special - then in reality no one is. We are raising our children today to feel entitled.

I see bullying today like I see child abduction or rape. It's probably not really any worse today than it was 20 years ago, they just have media attention today they didn't have 20 years ago. It's the in thing, what sells airtime and newspapers.

Are there any security risks to publishing the SIP/RTP ports directly on the internet? it sounds like you are saying no.

While JaredBusch is limiting what external networks are allowed to connect to his PBX, if you're a mobile user who can find themselves anywhere using a softphone for example - you can't really lock down the PBX like this, so you'd either be limited to using a VPN or publishing directly to the internet.

I'd say I should worry about this for HIPAA reasons, but we don't encrypt our current phone calls over PSTN, so I guess you're right, why worry about it over the internet? Though I'd argue that it's easier to capture the traffic over the internet than over PSTN.

Nice, can you share the paper?

My phone vendor told me recently that VOIP traffic should always travel over a VPN when you are working remotely because SIP is not encrypted. Is this correct?

My friend showed me his old setup, he had taken an Office phone home plugged it into his home network (received DHCP address) and was connected to his office PBX without any issues. 2 questions:

1 - what are the chances the phone had a built in VPN?
2 - if no VPN - was this a wise setup?

I love the charts idea.

That. Was supposed to be
Huge. By most people's

Agreed the amount of money needed for payment automation would have been huge by most people's standards. Wow

I presume you have to provide credentials assuming your user is not a local admin.?

Ive never used psexecute before.

I enjoy the mayhem commercials.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Not that you are wrong, Scott, but what do you consider years ahead?

Four to five?

Iol I meant features?

I relaxed with a nice walk in our local ST patrick's day parade then lunch with friends.

Not that you are wrong, Scott, but what do you consider years ahead?

OK I solved it.

On the Settings Tab of Favorites (in the GPO), I had the two check boxes (defaults by the way) checked for:
Grant the user Exclusive Rights to Favorites
Move the Contents of Favorites to the new location.

I removed the Rights one first, reboot - no go.

I remove the Move one, and finally it worked.

Closes thing I can figure - Windows 8.1 does not allow you to move the default items on the local machine, though I have not a clue as to why!

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm a complete scripting NOOB... so a little help in what is needed would be cool.

What do you want to accomplish? I provided install and update examples above.

for a single workstation, what do you do with that for the entire network?

Anyone here familiar with Folder redirection?

I'm trying to redirect the favorites folder exactly the same as I'm doing for the documents folder (which works).

Here is a screen shot from GP Editor

And here is from GPResult

Finally first victory of the day.

I've been trying to get my GPOs to push out entries to the Trusted sites portion of IE for an hour now. 27 reboots later (minor tweaks to GPOs each time) and I finally licked it!

@FiyaFly said:

@Dashrender said:

I use two monitors on a single desktop.

@ajstringham is using something like 6 monitors

Yup, all hooked to a laptop no less. He's an odd one
Have you ever considered multiple PC's to go with the multiple monitors?

Not for my work setup. I do have three monitors on my desk, but the third one is for the PC that's 'in the shop' getting worked on. It's not there long enough normally to spend the time setting up something like Synergy.

@katie which what do I use? which Metro Apps? None - but they all had little x's on them and wouldn't run at all.

I'm trying to impress my boss with Windows 8 and don't want anything disabled incase they want to use it.
If they decide later to disallow people creating and linking MS accounts on their windows 8 machines so they don't download and install non work apps - that's fine, but for now I'm in a trial setup and want it all working.

My dad started as a data entry person in the AirForce which gave him a desire to learn about computers for personal use (I was about 10 at the time).
When I turned 13 I bought my first computer, it was an 8088 Hyundai with an amber screen and two 5 1/4 floppy drives (no HD) for $250. Next I purchased a 30 Meg HD from SAM's Club for $300 that my dad installed for me (It was pre IDE I don't know what it was called).

From there my dad's second job somehow ended up with extra motherboards for 286's and together we were assembling and installing DOS. Then we started hitting local computer shows buying all kinds of odds and ends and of course who can forget the Computer Shopper?

I didn't stay very involved in the learning side through most of high school. I did take Fortran and C programming but I've completely forgotten it now. Fast forward a few years, I graduate from HS and start college and a job at a local telemarketing company. College doesn't really go anywhere for me, but luckily the job did. I was invited to be a temp worker in the excuse they had for a helpdesk at the time. After a year (for a job that was only suppose to last eight weeks) I was brought on as a full time Tech I doing desktop (Windows) support. We were a WIndows 3.1/Novel shop - again those were the days. Windows 95 came on the scene shortly followed by Windows NT 4.0. I can't tell you why but for some reason I was really drawn to NT 4.0. I started reading anything I could find and as soon the considered expert for NT 4.0 in the company. I took and passed the NT 4.0 MSCE thing were pretty good, but didn't last to long. Things in our department kinda stagnated, there was no upward mobility and my department was a projects department so it was just the daily grind.
in 1999 my friend who worked for a consulting company mentioned there was a job opening, so I jumped ship. The consulting company was in the middle of being bought out by another consulting company (which at the time seemed fine). But a year later my friend and I, as well as all of the other Windows support personal in the company were let go being sited "Microsoft is not enterprise class stuff and we want to focus on enterprise stuff only."
The only good thing about that, was that it meant they weren't going to be supporting any of our clients any more because we only supported Windows based clients. I instantly found my self opening a new business with my friend.
After 5 years working for myself with all that entails, between possibly losing a major client or instead going to work for them full time, I decided to close my business and work for my client full time. I'm still here today 6 years later.

I often trade dinner for working on a computer.