Best posts made by DenisKelley

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joyfano NTG is a Vipre partner!

Yes i just saw about it. in SW

I got mine from them too. I use the "cloud" version and have had good success with this product so far.

Yeah I saw that before. The cert part is not terribly complex. The videos and the Friday sessions (along with playing) was how I learned the product.

@thecreativeone91

I'm curious and that seems a bit over the top. Can you paraphrase/quote what you wrote and where you did so we can see context? I'm no longer a mod, but do like to see what might be wrong and am not ashamed to rant to the OG team.

It's funny I just saw this thread. I've been running single jobs for awhile now and just redid my backup today to do it in one job. Primarily to see how the deduplication will reduce the total backup size, and hopefully the time it takes for me to drop that to tape later. And by the way, Veeam One is pretty awesome.

Many of the ones above, but add Ghost Busters, Ip Man, Ip Man 2, Highlander, and pretty much any cheesy disaster film.

I've also seen that with 2 screens at work and you remote into with one. Some of my users use Fences to combat that. http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/

@Carnival-Boy said:

@DenisKelley said:

As you probably are aware, you just setup a different Group Policy for those PCs you wish to test.

No I'm not, can you explain? What I have done is setup different groups within WSUS - one for Accounts dept, one for Sales dept and one for everyone else. That way I can approve for Accounts dept first, and then assuming that goes well, I can approve for Sales dept and then everyone else. So I'm staggering the installations, so that if there is a problem, I only have to deal with a handful of PCs rather than every PC.

One thing I'm not sure about with this process is how I should approve updates for other departments once I've approved for Accounts dept. How do I view which updates have been approved only for Accounts, so that I can then select them and approve for other users?

You can probably tell I'm a newbie when it comes to WSUS.

It is somewhat similar to what you are doing, but in Active Directory, I have different computer OUs. I have one for Servers, one for PCs, and one for WSUS test. Since they are in different OUs, I can apply a unique WSUS group policy to them. The best guide I've used is the WSUS Step-by-Step guide. I realize the new O/S have a newer WSUS version, but the concepts should be similar. Browse the setup here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=913. Rob over on SW also has a how-to he wrote with a bunch of good advice. http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1390-wsus-gpo-settings-for-the-real-world

@Dashrender said:

@DenisKelley said:

I'd think it would just fail, but just thought to note that. Can you copy the files up closer to the root of his profile folder and call it something like test and have him launch from there. Honestly, not sure that it will make any difference, but figured since you are pretty close, why not eliminate that as a variable.

He already tried that by moving the files to the desktop, changing the path.

So either the path length is the cause or something about the file table is broken.

Yeah, forgot that. I had a problem when copying project files from a network drive where the path was really at the border. So to move them to another server, I had to create a mapping to that location to shorten the file path and then it was able to do so.

@technobabble said:

@DenisKelley said:

Many of the ones above, but add Ghost Busters, Ip Man, Ip Man 2, Highlander, and pretty much any cheesy disaster film.

Have you seen Mn of Tai Chi yet?

I did and it was fairly good. While I know Tai Chi is a disguised martial arts form, I have only known it as that slow exercise old people do., so it was a bit weird watching.

Yeah, it does suck. When vendors that still had Office 2010 jacking up their prices it got bad. I'm just doing the VL without SA right now.

I'll be there as well. Monday - Thursday

@scottalanmiller
Wow

@ajstringham said:

@DenisKelley said:

I'll be there as well. Monday - Thursday

Looking forward to seeing you again Denis!

Should be fun. Hopefully one of the vendors will give out a gun for swag this year instead of a knife.

@Minion-Queen said:
To do a flat rate to cover for actual cost of work you have to over charge a client to cover for those things you just can't predict.

-Amen. Customers never really understood that.

@JaredBusch said:

@DenisKelley said:

Should be fun. Hopefully one of the vendors will give out a gun for swag this year instead of a knife.

Not their fault that when they planned swag months before that the TSA had announced they would be relaxing the rules, just to take it back weeks later.

LOL, yeeeeeah riiiiight, since knives are a common swag item at IT conferences.

@ajstringham
LOL, why would anyone want to try to do that?

@thecreativeone91 said:

I personally would seperate out your domain controller and your File/Print Server. I would keep an AD server just being a DC only. and use another vm for File/Printer if budget allows.

Yeah, when I started budgeting, I split all those roles out. A little extra money, but worth it. I can quickly reboot my Print or SharePoint server without kicking people off of files.

Good Luck!

@ajstringham said:

Considering AD has almost zero system load, is there really any reason to separate out AD from the file and print services? If anything, use the license of Windows server you would have used for File/Print on a secondary DC.

Yeah, little load, but rebooting is a likely candidate for separating the roles. A second DC is a good idea, but we don't know how large this company is.