Topics created by garak0410

The free trials really are not bad alternatives at all.

Here's a walkthrough of the game, even showing the easter eggs of the "Yar" and Indiana Jones:

Youtube Video

@david.wiese said:

@garak0410 feel free to send to surface pro to me. I will get use out of it since mine hasn't been approved yet.

Well, mine is work issued so we would either return or pass down...and just arrived. I am sure I'll use it a lot. Funny, all the talk about the fan and how it wont really fire up unless you are doing desktop graphic intensive stuff...fan is quite audible and all I am doing is getting the firmware update that was pushed out yesterday.

I've not done anything but pair the pen (yet it won't write...might be in firmware) and download updates. The size is nice and screen is vibrant. Will give it a good try after updates.

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@garak0410 so it is working now?

Yes...still have to use the FQDN when using remote desktop VIA VPN but it is working.

Sounds like your DNS suffix search order's screwy or not defined.

@Minion-Queen said:

It's interesting to hear others opinions as I used one for a bit and didn't like it. However to be fair I am comparing it to an Ipad mini and the ipad just beat it in all areas that I need a tablet for hands down. Though to be fair I use these devices differently than you guys do.

I used to love to jump on the "tease Apple users" but working as a solo IT shop manager, I know there is a device for every person. I prefer the Microsoft Ecosystem but I appreciate what the iPad offers my users. I am not against Android but we only have iOS or Windows Phones/Windows tablets here.

Well that's a good point.

@NetworkNerd said:

If I understand correctly, that code snippet is only for a validation that will be run against the Phone1 field. Are you just trying to throw up a validation error on a web page or within an application if a proper phone number is not entered in the PHONE1 field?

He wants to extract out the first 10 digits of the PHONE1 field and present them to the application / page as the phone number so that the native regional formatting of 10 digit TN handles it correctly.

If you've turned off the 2003 server already, you should remove WINS from DHCP now. You could be causing yourself more issues by having it, than you will by removing it, again assuming the 2003 server is already off.

@garak0410 said:

@Dashrender said:

I hate to say it.. but if time is an issue, and there is nothing else on this server (which it sounds like since you can reboot it 20 times a day) why not just build another VM and scrap this one? If you want to save it for later and try to trouble shoot it when you have nothing better to do.. Ok do that. 🙂

Whew...would hate to have to do this...it is already sharing duties with the soon to be demoted old domain controller...I can't imagine what would cause this problem since I keep this machine very clean.

The upside is that you can have effectively unlimited domain controllers all "sharing duties." Adding another one isn't a problem.

@Seth-Cooper said:

Yep, keep the device for personal use.

I am curious though, how do you get into a gig to review tech and keep the hardware? Sounds pretty cool, do you work with a site we can read the reviews?

Thanks!

I started writing reviews for a company on a volunteer basis in the late 90's and sometime in the late 2000's, they approached me to be a part of their review and keep program. I never thought my writing skills were all that good but it made an impression them.

It's interesting I happened to see this thread today. We too have a Lanier copier similar to @Dashrender mentions above, and we were not able to do scanning to SMB because of Server 2012 R2's SMB version as well. We went with the Windows FTP server approach to get around it. Scan to FTP seems to work very well for pretty much every printer / copier we have that supports it.

This ended up being a name resolution problem. FQN in the storage repository did the trick. Back on track now...

@scottalanmiller said:

What's holding up the decomm at this point? Are there still services relying on the old box?

Just crazy busy with SOLO IT guy stuff...

Are you telling Unitrends to only look at the VMware host? You should only be adding one thing to back up. Not doing anything with the servers that run in top of it.

Or pointing at the HyperV host, rather.

I love simple fixes,

@scottalanmiller said:

Fingers crossed then. Could have been almost anything.

That's what I told management...fingers crossed...the only thing I didn't turn back on was Unitrends Free (which I've not had time to use yet but will soon as you may see in another thread)...

@scottalanmiller said:

VB is just an awful language.

We had a huge production system written in VBScript server side and VB6 client side for nearly a decade. That was just painful.

I can agree...the plethora of VBA (which I know, isn't VB but is still VB ) projects we have drives me insane...

My home office: Dual monitor setup with old HP rig (Q6660, 8GB, SSD) running W8.1. Crucial SSD died last Saturday after 6+ months of running. Running off a spare HP PC that was my data backup machine.

list item 2 Dell 2850's for testing, last running W2008R2.

list item Hp Touchsmart TX2x convertible touchscreen laptop AMD Fusion dual core 6GB and W8.1

list item Android TF101 with keyboard dock and Samsung Galaxy S3.

list item IMB convertible laptop x41? I used it to demo W8

Since last week I have been testing if one can be productive by living in the cloud only without any desktop apps. I will be reporting the shortcomings I have found.

Favorite desktop apps: Office 2013, Google Music Manger (my music is cloudy baby!), Notebook++, WinSCP. I have a love hate relationship with OneNote and Evernote.

Cloudy apps I love: RepairShopr, Wave, Office 365, ZenDesk, WHMCS, InfiniteWP.

Going to build or buy a new rig and want to get a touch screen monitor.