@thecreativeone91 said:

The article wasn't telling you to use techsoup to get 0365 they don't offer it. It's an information article.

I think the wording generally encourages you to use Tech Soup, Especially when you read points 4, 6 and 9

@Carnival-Boy said in How Do You Evaluate IT Skills for Hiring:

Let's take an example. I'm recruiting for an IT role and @JaredBusch applies (he fancies a change of scenery).

Two points on this:

1. Although I'm not an IT pro, I know enough about IT to know that Jared knows his shit.
2. I don't know of any headhunter that is likely to know more about IT than Jared. That's not really a headhunters role.

Yes but a good head hunter does not just look at that, that is trivial and easy to discover.

What type of person do you want? What is your culture? Do you need a rapid fire-fighter or do you need a longer term project bod? Two completely different skill sets in IT and although you could get someone who can do both, for your team you really want someone who is one way or the other.

AV technicians in London get placed at 5* hotels by head hunters, because you absolutely have to have the right skills, experience, personality and match what the clients (often CEOs) are wanting. And some of those roles are £22-26k per year, yet the AV firm still does out 10-15% of the salary to an agency to get it right first time because the cost of failure is too high.

I would not use recruiters, many of them are generically average at best, incompetent at worse. I would seriously think about head hunters though.

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

However, there seems to be a number of sites that require it in order to function 'correctly'

Any good ones? If someone thinks that their own content is that worthless, I sure don't want to waste my time on it.

Ubiquiti controller

Yep, I see it frequently with .com domains. - Whether through Godaddy or someone else, I think they just use who.is

Homepage of your website as I was curious to see if this was a scam or not.

Kinda amusing to see this on the home page...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cyber-security-apply-now-for-business-funding

Link to the horses mouth.

Again, not a programmer but...

What's wrong with using those resources remotely so that the laptop becomes just an interface to do the work? A more reliable desktop/server with far better performance so that programming goes quicker surely is the way to go?

@Dashrender said

I don't know if this is true or not, but I'm hearing this is the case regarding Muslims in the UK. There are sections of the UK where the police don't even go because Sharia Law is taking over.

There are in fact areas the police are not able to patrol heavily. I grew up in Slough which now has areas where the police do not go unless they are in force and in riot gear, there are also parts of East London which are in a similar bad spot.

I was passing through Woolwich Arsenal, a massive fight had broken out....between 2 groups of angry white men....wearing different football uniforms.

Sharia law has nothing to do with it, its down to crime and vandalism, There are cases of gangs harassing women and individuals using "Sharia" as justification but they are in the minority.

Christianity also has its fair share of violent fools. Look at the Westboro baptist church.

@Carnival-Boy said:

How easy is it to crack an AES encrypted 7Zip file?

Only one way to find out

Gimme an encrypted zip with a document, I'll post the contents of the document for you if I can get into it.

What a surprise, definitions on the FW were just updated. Gahhhh

I've done partner based support for 365, from migrations to weird support issues.

If you are a Microsoft 365 partner, you get access to something called "The Microsoft Partner Support Team"

You skip a lot of the bobbins, and just get pure MS tech support.

Microsoft know that to become a partner you have to go through the training, the certifications, ect. So they give you better access to their technicians.

@scottalanmiller said:

Once you go direct to MS and initiate the relationship, those options are permanently gone. MS expects and encourages everyone to go through a partner, and especially a premier partner, to get maximum benefits.

....? How are they permanently gone? We went in and took over clients who had no partner before.

Can I ask what is a premium partner?

You might be a registered partner with no competencies, or you might have every gold partner competency under the sun, but you are still a Microsoft partner. I've never heard the term Premium partner.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-GB/library/office-365-partners.aspx

@Carnival-Boy said:

If it helps, I can tell you that the password isn't "password123" or any derivative thereof.

Sorry guys.

Was away for a few days

Will do so shortly.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

I'm coming for the first time. Should be good.

I'll be speaking. Come hear me.

Should I wear a tin-foil hat?

I'd say 2 hours at a minimum, 2 hours of "I can't print anymore"

4 hours of engineer time at maximum even with all the snags in the world. 1 hour if everything goes off without a hitch.

Is this going to be done during the day or during the evening when the business is not using them? That will affect the cost.

Just sing the song and it will all be better.

10 for spindoctors
10 for the agents
10 for the chefs
4 white house doctors
9 state Officials
and a partridge in a pear tree.

Not used the site but is it really that difficult to type [email protected] into the account box? Article says their verification is non existent.

What? They stopped doing that? Surprised they stopped at all.

Never would think of using it for project management. It does look like an internal version of Facebook but if teams are using it for project management and it works, why not?

@Dashrender

Going by the article:

Munich is using the fifth version of Limux, which is based on Kubuntu, and comes with web browser Firefox, email client Thunderbird and Libreoffice version 4.1. Also available on all workstations is Wollmux, the city’s document template and form management solution.

So although they are funnelling funds into Wollmux and some external development, by and large they are using what is out there.

@IRJ said:

My fiance really wants to go to Venice, but it may be just because of the PR that area gets. Is Venice cost effective?

About as cost-effective as saying, if you want to visit America, go to New York.

This has generated a lot of replies which has been interesting to read.

@Carnival-Boy - Let me explain a conversation between you and a reseller versus a consultancy company.

CB: Hi I'm looking to buy a new server
Reseller: Well we'd recommend the Dell FI"(SJK, fantastic performance, brilliant features.
CB: Hmm, well, I was thinking of something from HP?
Reseller: Oh no no no, you don't want HP, Dell is the best because reasons.
CB: Will it do everything I need?
Reseller: Certainly!

CB: Hi, I'm looking to buy a new server
Consultant: Great, what do you need it for?
CB: File storage, email, active directory
Consultant: Ok let's talk about that and then we'll find you the right solution.

Now this is a bit blunt, but this is how the conversation plays out most of the time. The key factor to look at with a consultant is, are they offering to "supply" you the server, or are they researching and helping you choose from another supplier?