Best posts made by DenisKelley

Hi. My name is Denis and it's been 10 days.....oh shit. Sorry, different site.

Don't trash your employer online.

The wedding is quickly approaching and like any other wedding, we want them drunk

They specifically said they didn't want any gifts. But hell, don't let that stop you. Every little bit will help them drink more and who doesn't want the bride and groom drunk off their ass for the ceremony?

I know a lot of people can't go (including me) but that doesn't mean we can't help them celebrate. Lots of small gifts will quickly add up and you can be anonymous if you'd like.

Give a little, give a lot... at least visit the page and think of the happy couple.

https://www.gofundme.com/huwandgabs

Don't forget to bring a towel.

Nice threadjack guys.

Have fun at your new job Nic!

@coliver said:

@art_of_shred said:

Yup, Unitrends has been heavily focused in the physical appliance, with integrated software and storage, while they offer software-only options. They also, AFAIK, hold the record on supported OS's. Veeam is software protection of virtual, primarily.

Does Veeam not offer things like Exchange or SQL backup? That seems like a fairly big downside to that solution.

@scottalanmiller said:

The other big difference is that Veeam is targeted on virtual backups only, they do not address applications or operating systems, only hypervisors (HyperV and VMware ESXi.)

Unfortunately, this is not accurate. Veeam does focus only on virtual servers only. While they focus on VM-level backups, they do not ignore enterprise applications. They have tools to item-level restore:

• Exchange Server
• SQL Server
• Active Directory

In fact, a tool like their Veeam Explorer for Exchange doesn't even require Exchange to be mounted. You can use this tool to recover items as long as you have access to the MDB files for Exchange 2010 and higher. They have a separate tool for Exchange 2007 which I use right now temporarily.

During a complete meltdown, you can actually spin up the failed server using the backup file until you can recover and move it to it's final destination.

Veeam natively handles both backup and replication. The two are not necessarily dependent on each other and can play into your D&R plans. You can have instant failover and failback. Licensing of these features are always on the source machines, not the target hosts. So if you just have one box, you can drop in a cheap one and replicate to it without requiring additional software.

With Enterprise (both in Essentials and their high-end version which does WAN optimization) you get SureBackup Lab. This is super freaking awesome. Basically, you can craft a test isolated test lab and automate your backup testing in the lab. I have this setup for all my backup jobs. Basically what happens after each backup is that it will spin up the VM from the backup file (after spinning any dependency VMs like a DC first) verify that it can boot, NICs can be pinged, and any application-specific services and roles like Exchange, AD, and SQL can actually be verified. I have this setup and all my backups are verified EVERY DAY. One last thing is you can also use the SureBackup Lab for testing. I often, drop in some VMs when I want to do some testing of changes I want to do with productions VMs. The lab comes with a Proxy appliance that you can punch a hole in to get access to the isolated lab. I'm doing this now with our ERP software where I'm making some updates. I've given Accounting access so they can play their testing with real data, but in a safe environment.

Want complete insight into your virtualization environment? Disk IOPS, datastore latency, CPU utilization over time, etc. Well, they will give it to you for free VeeamOne. Paid version comes with a few more features. This is pretty awesome.

Got non-servers you'd like to backup too. Well, they have a free tool for that also now that will allow you to manage that within your backup console.

Sorry to post a wall of info, but these comments worried me and I felt the need to provide a better insight into Veeam. I've played with Unitrends and they have a nice product, I just don't feel like it comes close to this product and its flexibility. So it just backups VMs. Yeah, but the tools they give just rock.

So I guess, what? We get one year of free credit monitoring?

@JaredBusch said:

@DenisKelley said:

and pretty much any cheesy disaster film.

So much this.. My Netflix history is a testament to this.

Of course there are only so many of those, so I branch out into B movies quite a lot.

It's funny, but I just love them. NY freezes in 20 minutes...awesome. Let's fly to a freaking asteroid, drill, and drop a nuke....yeah, Murica! Big on science here, but I can just enjoy these films for their over the top themes. I still laugh so much with Sharknado. Hey, let's just fly this helicopter next to the tornado and drop these homemade explosives. That'll do the trick.

Thin clients are in no way dead. VDI has its place, but it doesn't eliminate RDS. A good box should be able to run many many VMs. The only thing that might affect your decision would be the SQL ones. Licensing and if the app that runs on that system likes to play well with others.

Be careful about running Office with RDS. There are additional, crazy licensing limitations that you'll need to address if you do it.

Lastly, don't forget backup.

Very nice. I'd suggest taking off the crown during the interview. That's just me. Good luck.

It is not so much that RDS licensing is complicated. I see more folks struggle with licensing Microsoft Office on RDS than anything else.

From an old Microsoft post and I'm paraphrasing here:

Joe Business User: Hey, I have 300 users that need to use MS Office on RDS, but really only 10 will be connecting. So how many licenses do I need to purchase?

Microsoft: 300.

Joe Business User: [Comment deleted by Moderator]

Next add some of the Enterprise benefits of O365 and it gets even more confusing.

.................My two pennies.

@scottalanmiller

Photo of a Otter attacking a alligator, then eating it. Wow!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/05/otter-attacks-alligator_n_4906842.html

Oh, and if you are using Veeam Essentials Enterprise (needed for GRT of application items), you also get one of my favorite features. That feature is their isolated lab. One of the things as admins we need to know is whether or not our backups are good. Well, Veeam gives you an awesome way to do that. For each backup I have, after completion, Veeam launches that backup as a full restore in that isolated lab to make sure it boots, can be logged in, can talk to AD, and for special stuff like SQL, Exchange, and SharePoint, will run application specific scripts to test the backup.

I thought this was debunked by Snopes https://goo.gl/lZ1RIr

Must have needed some new boots. Badda Bing!

@IRJ said:

I am new to WSUS. I built a WSUS Server and created all my Target groups and I want to approve some updates that 80%+ of our PCs already have.

I configured 3 Settings in Group Policy on the client computers. The one that I am concerned about is "Configure Automatic Updates".

Here are my questions:

1. If approve an update, it will only install on the time, I specified in the GPO, correct?** Yes, but there is another setting in GP that will make it try to do that if it failed to do so during that time. Just need to find it.**

2. Nofiy for the install in the GPO doesnt mean its going to notify me, if I approve it via WSUS, correct? If I dont approve it via WSUS is it still going to bug the user and say updates need to be installed? **Yes, since the PC/Server is "looking" at WSUS and not MS, it will believe WSUS that an update is available when you approve it. And the setting above means that it will download the update from WSUS and then notify you that there are updates that need to be installed. It won't install automatically. **

There is something different at SW. As to the moderation stuff, I dropped being a mod primarily because I was tired of hearing so many people bitch about it. Like others, I just enjoy helping others. I do miss some of the powers though when I see a post in the wrong forum. It is going to be interesting this coming Spiceworld. Might be my last, but we'll have to see.

The other setting(s) are:

1. No auto-restart with logged on users
2. Reschedule Automatic Updates scheduled installations. This is used for machines which you set it to update automatically. Not the way you have it configured in your example, just noting it.

Did you see the comment near the end:
"Earlier this year Wal-Mart (WMT) recalled some donkey meat after it was found to be contaminated with fox meat. "

Can't have fox in ma donkey meat.