Sounds like all the bases have been covered.
It's unrealistic to work with files of that size (even 10 GB files are unrealistic to work on from cloud).
As Pete said - show the owners the time it takes to move the data, then show them the cost of a potential VDI solution with hosted storage - your solution of a NAS will quickly be back on the table with backups to cloud.
Perhaps my situation is odd - but why is this a real issue in a company? People not working and just surfing random stuff - and IT has to fix their pop-up issue for that?
Much to my surprise - this hasn't been an issue for us, I've never even had a "hay, just asking cause, ya know - I get these popups.. how do I stop that?" which IS odd now that I think about it....
@Obsolesce said in MS Edge and pop-ups:
I use the same popup blocker in every web browser, even Edge, and it blocks everything. I've not come across any weird issues like that otherwise.
Have you tried this one?
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-origin/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak
Agreed - I personally use ublock origin everywhere - but I don't deploy it corporate wide.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Talking to a company that needs to go to VOIP because their land line copper lines have been down for over a week and no hopes of getting them back up.
That's the push - they likely should have done it ages ago for cost savings reasons...
@Skyetel said in Skyetel billing error:
@Dashrender We refunded the mistake back to the credit cards if there was an auto-recharge. The refund should clear before the initial transaction does, meaning your credit card should only be charged what you should have actually paid.
We aren't auto charge. It's not that big of a deal in our situation.
@Oksana said in Centralized print management with Azure Universal Print:
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I love this idea - but when printing adds like $0.05/print, that makes this a VERY expensive option.
@Skyetel said in Skyetel billing error:
Sorry about the headache this caused.
We rewrote our entire billing system and it worked perfectly... except for a single typo. Believe it or not, it was caused by a rouge "%" in a SQL query.
Full RFO to come
Interesting.
Luckily it was late at night for us (super low usage of phone system) and the overage amount I keep my account at enabled the fees to not put me into a negative balance.
Biggest drawback for me is prepaying about 2 weeks early for the next month...
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
everyone (who is affected) ready for daylights saving time in 2 weeks? cause I'm not.
hell no - stop the madness
@scottalanmiller said in I Cant Even...:
@Dashrender said in I Cant Even...:
@scottalanmiller said in I Cant Even...:
Today a large corporate "IT department" that uses DattoRMM (OMG, shoot me now) ask me if we needed these "apps"...
sc.exe and wmic.exe because DattoRMM was flagging them.
Um, that's WINDOWS. What kind of IT department that manages thousands of Windows computers opens a ticket to their upstream MSP to ask what sc and wmic are? Like, ever heard of Google? Or Windows? Seriously?
Damn... /sigh
And here I am being told to 'use the MSP more'
It wasn't your MSP that said that, lol.
Actually - it was both.
@scottalanmiller said in I Cant Even...:
Today a large corporate "IT department" that uses DattoRMM (OMG, shoot me now) ask me if we needed these "apps"...
sc.exe and wmic.exe because DattoRMM was flagging them.
Um, that's WINDOWS. What kind of IT department that manages thousands of Windows computers opens a ticket to their upstream MSP to ask what sc and wmic are? Like, ever heard of Google? Or Windows? Seriously?
Damn... /sigh
And here I am being told to 'use the MSP more'
@JaredBusch said in PS to download latest microsip version:
@Dashrender said in PS to download latest microsip version:
I just installed it on a test machine with chocolatey - it installed it into the local admin profile - so any normal non admin user can't use it.
You can run chocolatey without admin rights just fine.
It warns you, but that is because most software is designed to be installed with admin rights in the windows world.
It seems that Microsip does not require that, so run chocolatey as the user itself.
interesting - something else to test then.
will the choco update scripts catch both admin and non admin installed items?
I just installed it on a test machine with chocolatey - it installed it into the local admin profile - so any normal non admin user can't use it.
@Obsolesce said in PS to download latest microsip version:
@Dashrender said in PS to download latest microsip version:
Any thoughts on how I can fix these?
Chocolatey
I have to dig into that again - there was a reason I didn't go that route - something didn't work as desired...can't recall what.
I wanted a way to keep microSIP updated to the latest version automatically.
I wrote this script and have a couple of questions.
# Create a WebClient object
$webClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
# URL for the MicroSIP download page
$url = "https://microsip.org/downloads"
# Download the HTML content of the MicroSIP download page
$html = $webClient.DownloadString($url)
#write-output $html
# Use regular expression to extract the download link for the most recent version of MicroSIP Zip
$newversion = Select-String "(MicroSIP-.......zip)" -InputObject $html
# create full download url
$downloadurl = "https://microsip.org/download/" + $newversion.matches.value
#Write-Output $downloadurl
# check if destination folder exists
$folderPath = $env:HOMEDRIVE + $env:HOMEPATH + "\appdata\local\temp\microsip"
if (!(Test-Path -Path $folderPath -PathType Container))
{
New-Item -ItemType Directory -Path $folderPath
}
# set download destination path and name
$dest = $env:HOMEDRIVE + $env:HOMEPATH + "\appdata\local\temp\microsip\microsip.zip"
#Write-Output $dest
# download file from URL
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $downloadurl -OutFile $dest
# set user's microsip path
$destuserfolder = $env:HOMEDRIVE + $env:HOMEPATH + "\appdata\MicroSIP"
# extract zip to current user's microsip file
Expand-Archive -LiteralPath $dest -DestinationPath $destuserfolder -Force
# set user's microsip contact path and name
$contact = $env:HOMEDRIVE + $env:HOMEPATH + "\appdata\MicroSIP\Contacts.xml"
# set user's document directory path
$mydocuments = [environment]::getfolderpath("mydocuments")
# backup contacts to user's documents
Copy-Item -Path $contact -Destination $mydocuments -Force
This does the job I want just fine - finds the first entry of MicroSIP.........zip then downloads it, extracts it to the user's microsip folder, then backs up their contacts to their documents folder.
The problems I forsee:
If microsip changes their page layout, it's possible the link won't be the first zip on the page
If microsip changes the length of their version numbers, the script will break
Any thoughts on how I can fix these?
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco speakers in a couch! Not seen that before. My Mum has lights and usb chargers in hers. I thought that was top notch, but speakers go one step further.
Take it one more step - audio plug in! there are times I would love to have headset on while watching tv...
Most TV systems that I've had for the last ten years have the headphone jack either on the remote control or they have bluetooth built in for that. Can't remember a TV that I've had that didn't let me sit on the couch with remote headphones.
Roku, Fire and similar have long had jacks on the remotes. Apple and similar have long used BT.
Yeah I have that in ChromeCast with Google TV and I think I played with it once with Roku or Fire - but never tried with the TV.
To me the TV is just a monitor, nothing more. - ok that's not strictly true anymore, I have a TV in a spare bedroom and I do use the built in speakers, but I don't use it's tuning ability at all - ChromeCast with Google TV is my current preferred solution.
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco speakers in a couch! Not seen that before. My Mum has lights and usb chargers in hers. I thought that was top notch, but speakers go one step further.
Take it one more step - audio plug in! there are times I would love to have headset on while watching tv...
@scottalanmiller said in Local Storage vs SAN ...:
I'm going to make a video just for this thread BUT, watch this video first while I'm making it...
LOL - nice!
@Obsolesce said in User migration to azure:
The alternative to signing into the web browser to sync is so much worse, even in the off chance you chose to use 4 web browsers at the same time, and sign into them all with your work account to sync. Any other method is going to end up costing way more effort in the end anyways.
No real arguement from me there. But it's still 3 (IE is dead and as far as I know never had sync) accounts, one for each browser.
I use three browsers - I personally use FF, I have to use Chrome/Edge for our EMR - it refuses FF, and I use Chrome and Edge because I have need for multiple sessions in the EMR as different users... now I could do profiles in Chrome for that - but that's like making multiple accounts in Chrome.. so - meh.