@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Event:

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@Dashrender said in Microsoft Event:

@momurda said in Microsoft Event:

I saw this
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/microsoft-announces-surface-studio-all-in-one-touchscreen-pc/
Looks sweet, that screen is just wow

And so is that worse that iMac price

Before the prices were released, I was already thinking of "selling stuff'" to get the Surface Studio...Ah no...unless my boss gets me one...

So they talked about this on Windows Weekly last night. Apparently the Studio is geared toward (and the event in general was too) to creatives - people who work on these Wacom type devices. Apparently the typical display these people work on costs $1500+ So that means only a $1500 PC (for the bottom end) - OK when considered in that context I suppose this is OK. But I wonder if these guys will really buy an All-in-one? Assuming these guys need computing power, won't they be replacing the PC every 3 years or so? But the monitors probably last more like 6 or even 10. So now you're throwing out the baby with the bath water. But then I have to ask, have we reached a point, even for these guys, that we no longer need faster and faster compute power for these tasks? Generally we don't use end user stations to do things like rendering - we send that off to a rendering farm

The iMac was very popular for this market. So this could easily fit in that niche.

Agreed...I think Microsoft is focusing on niches and businesses with Nadella. I for one am a fan of him, even if I do feel isolated as a consumer...

@Dashrender said in Most Workstations Don't Ping But Are Connected - Some Network Apps Are Locking Up:

@coliver said in Most Workstations Don't Ping But Are Connected - Some Network Apps Are Locking Up:

@garak0410 said in Most Workstations Don't Ping But Are Connected - Some Network Apps Are Locking Up:

Users already reporting lockups in that one program which extensively writes to a network share. These problems have only occurred since removing Symantec Endpoint from our servers when we migrated to WebRoot. I did not load WebRoot (as of yet) on servers.

Symantec! Oh that's not good it has been known for destroying workstations when it is removed.

Yep... sadly you might be in for a reinstalling/reimaging good time.

Try a network stack reset to see if that fixes your issue.

I sure hope not...especially on these servers...I will try the network stack reset...thankfully, these problems are more annoying than show stopping but it is driving me crazy...

Users already reporting lockups in that one program which extensively writes to a network share. These problems have only occurred since removing Symantec Endpoint from our servers when we migrated to WebRoot. I did not load WebRoot (as of yet) on servers.

@JaredBusch said in Most Workstations Don't Ping But Are Connected - Some Network Apps Are Locking Up:

By default Webroot does not block pings.
Honestly, I have never checked for a setting to disable that.

I'm thinking...thinking....that web I removed the old anti-virus from the servers that "Windows Firewall" took over some stuff but not sure where to look.

Also, I used to be able to use REMOTE COMPUTER MANAGEMENT to check logs on other workstations on the domain and that has stopped working too...

I will continue this in the morning...we aren't down but may still experience lockups in that app until I find out what is going on.

I also rebooted our main firewall (which doesn't contain any DNS/DHCP controls), rebooted switches, heck, rebooted my PC several times...still have many PC's I can't ping and they can't ping me back and the aforementioned can't use COMPUTER MANAGEMENT remotely.

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Event:

@momurda said in Microsoft Event:

I saw this
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/microsoft-announces-surface-studio-all-in-one-touchscreen-pc/
Looks sweet, that screen is just wow

And so is that worse that iMac price

Before the prices were released, I was already thinking of "selling stuff'" to get the Surface Studio...Ah no...unless my boss gets me one...

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Event:

@JaredBusch said in Microsoft Event:

I could not watch it live. I am inferring there was Hololens news?

Beyond the fact that Windows 10 Redstone two will have have some Hololens programming stuff - what real thing for consumers did they talk about with Hololens?

I've seen some journalist wondering if MS is close to bailing on consumers with the exceptions of Xbox and Windows desktop OS. For those that consider Office a consumer product, i'll just say I disagree - I consider it a business tool that just found it's way into the home.

I've wondered the same thing...this is either a renewed pledge that they are for consumers or a Hail Mary pass...

I think it may be related to my WebRoot deployment but I have many workstations that will not ping from our DNS server and from the workstation back to DNS server. I've scavanged stale DNS records, I've checked DHCP and DNS and they look fine, I've searched past posts on here and SpiceWorks and can' find a solution. I really think it may be due to WebRoot and perhaps one setting there might fix all of this.

We also have an application that writes tons of files to the network and I've been getting sporatic reports of it locking up when writing files to the network. Oftentimes, they close the locked program, try again and it works but it may come again later in the day. I believe it is related to this issue.

So anything I could check? Thanks...

@Kelly said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

The way these types of workflows work in Sharepoint Online are through sites there. You would create a calendar associated with your group, e.g. Project A Calendar in Project Management site. Planner is also linked to a given site (team or otherwise).

This. ^^^^...I did create a Drafting Group with all drafters in it and it created a SharePoint Page, OneNote Page and a shared group calendar.

@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

I'm now wondering - even if you did have Outlook 2016, would that way you created the calendar provide a calendar in Outlook 2016?

I'm unfamiliar with group calendars as you've created it currently in O365.

Outlook 2016 does show O365 groups.

All in all ,they decided to let each user manually share with the project manager and he will view their calendars one by one...I'll talk them into O365 Groups one day...

@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?

Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)

There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.

You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.

I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.

@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.

I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...

I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.

As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.

Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.

Sure you'll have this savings, but how much did you pay for Office last time? and do you really need local Office? Will Office Online and SharePoint/ODfB work for you?

We are Macro and VBA fiends here...and I've not had the time to even do my studies to learn more development skills, even with Office 365 options.

@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

@garak0410 said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?

Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)

There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.

You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.

I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.

@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.

I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...

I wonder if there is another way to create the calendar that you can then map directly into Outlook 2013.

As for moving them away - that's easy, uninstall it. Of course I'm guessing management won't allow that. But then they didn't put all the pieces together if they want O365 and local office because they didn't buy local office with their subscription.

Yeah...it was going to be $20,000+ a year with Office versus about $6,000 for E1.

@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

Do you have a split domain? i.e. some users on a local Exchange and others on O365 native?

Everyone is on the cloud based E1 Plan.

@Tim_G said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

You can set up "Office 365 Group"s in there can't you?

I think E1 users can use the "Planner" app when they log in. Not able to verify this atm though.

Well, as mentioned, it would take a major, major effort to get them off the Outlook Client...it would...

@Dashrender said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

How are you accessing calendars today? Are your users using Outlook? or are they using Outlook the web?

Here's the lower left corner of my Outlook on the web (horrible name!)

There's the calendar icon just like in the desktop option, then once there you can request access to anyone's calendar you want. Like in the past you can create shared calendars as well.

You could also create calendars in SharePoint and use those (though getting those into Outlook might be more challenging.

I went to our Office 365 Portal and created a DRAFTING group and added everyone...so it does now have one group shared calendar. But if they happen to be on Office 2013 (the majority), it takes them to OWA and it isn't idea for our business model.

@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

"Other people's calendars" show up in OWA and work great. We use that every day.

I'll never get anyone to use OWA over standard Outlook...ever...(well, at least for a good while)...they resist change...

We have the and use Office 365 Enterprise E1 which includes Exchange, Yammer, SharePoint, Skype, Delve, Sway, Powerapps, etc. We basically only use Exchange and Skype.

A project manager came to me and asked why he can't see other peoples calendars in Outlook (desktop app). He wants them to start using the calendar for project due dates and updates. I immediately thought we could take advantage of these other Office 365 Enterprise E1 tools rather than use the somewhat archaic Outlook Desktop program.

Is Outlook and shared calendars still the best or can we use these other tools with relative ease?

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Admit Failure On Mobile Phones:

@garak0410 there was one at the AetherStore booth at MangoCon.

Wow...sweet...progress! I do remember budgeting for one (at rumored prices) for Christmas 2015 and it never came. Perhaps tomorrow's announcement may shed some more light on it.

@art_of_shred said in Microsoft Admit Failure On Mobile Phones:

@garak0410 Yeah, MS could have done something special in the smartphone market, and we were waiting for it to happen, but everything they put out just didn't cut it. It was certainly sad to watch, as we were hoping for much more.

I for one really got tired of the "wait and see" or "coming soon"...or "here it is...now let's take it scrub it." Look at the first Hololens promo...

Youtube Video

I had Apple fans going "whoa" and couldn't wait to pre-order...and we've waited...and waited...and waited...and now it looks like it is going the way of Google Glass, at least on the consumer end of it...

@brianlittlejohn said in iPhone and Microsoft Exchange - CANNOT GET MAIL. CONNECTION TO SERVER FAILED:

Was the account setup as new on the iphone 7, or was it moved over from a icloud/itunes backup?

Very good question...It was from iTunes backup but I do remember having to reenter credentials again (password mainly)

@Dashrender said in iPhone and Microsoft Exchange - CANNOT GET MAIL. CONNECTION TO SERVER FAILED:

A doc/user reported to me this morning that when looking at emails with PDF attachments, he couldn't download them.. instead it just showed several question marks.

Not helpful for your problem... but I wonder if they broke their email client with the new IOS

That could be part of the issue...when searching, this error has been going on since the early days of the iPhone.

I could be classified (in the past) as a Microsoft "fanboy"...despite the awkwardness of what was Windows 8, I decided to go ALL IN with Microsoft then...Surface RT, Windows Phone, Zune...all of it. Flash forward to today...I'm thinking as a consumer, Microsoft may not have much to offer me. I think tomorrow's announcement and the resulting aftermath of it will tell the tale: are consumers still into Microsoft.

I still maintain a Dell XPS Tower PC as my home PC/File/Media Server with Plex and a hefty 4 Drive NAS running on Windows Storage Server. My daily driver PC is a Surface Book Core i7/512GB and I have an XBOX One as my living room entertainment center.

Outside that, I'm a little diverse...Google Pixel Phone, Google Services for calendar/contacts/reminders, Amazon Echo, Amazon Unlimited Cloud Drive, Office 365 with 1TB OneDrive...

Back to Windows Phone...I LOVED the OS but couldn't stick with it...I'm on Verizon at work and only a low grade Windows Phone is available. I do have a 950XL review copy that I do like (testing Insider Builds and wi-fi only) but it is just a sad reminder of what was and what it could have been.

I have a single user with a new iPhone 7+ that I upgraded from an iPhone 6+. She is receiving her EXCHANGE email from the stock email app just done but she always gets the message: CANNOT GET MAIL. CONNECTION TO SERVER FAILED

I've searched and none of the suggestions out there seem to fix her issue. I've set to NO LIMIT, I've removed/re-added account, nothing works.

NOTE - She doesn't manage her inbox. She has over 42,000 emails in her email box alone not to mention thousands showing unread. Not sure if that could be part of the problem but she did not have this issue on her iPhone 6.

I currently have her set on 1 Week email. When I moved her to no limit to troubleshoot the problem, she text me after hours wondering why she had 5800 unread messages. I explained it nicely to her about her large inbox.

Any other suggestions? Like I mentioned, she is getting her email but it is an annoyance...

Thanks...