Topics created by garak0410

@Dashrender said:

Scott is right, even though I've experienced this issue, and I (the IT Person) need to have solutions to help find things, this doesn't mean we need to complicate the entire environment because of the minority.

Deities know - I hate kowtowing to the minority. Have a plan for them when possible, but don't make massive sweeping changing because of them if possible.

In the current world, you can give "normal" users application access and just instruct the minority to search through file shares / Sharepoint.

How are you trying to connect?

@IRJ said:

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ
Can you delete messages from the watch? This is something the Band can't do.. 😞

Nope. The watch is pretty much passive. It holds the last 5 notifications. No actual data. For example if someobody sends me a FB message, I can read the whole message from my watch, but once I get 5 additional notifications, it is removed from the watch.

The MS Band 2 is the same way.

@garak0410 I bought it, then immediately installed Exchange 2003 so I could sync everything with it OTA.

@garak0410 said:

I did find a few on Google from some school districts. And this is a single user and close friend to our lead engineer. He will be engineering buildings for us an while, along with our in office engineers.

Might be OK just this once but making a "policy" just makes sense now.

We were going to just share files via DropBox or the like but the push suddenly came to get him VPN access like NOW. 😞

Odd I though you meant a software/IT consultant. You should have HR handle that and have them sign the same AUP as any normal employee. However we don't give these type people network access, they aren't employees. We have an FTP server external engineers share AutoCad, Tekla, and other BIM models over all the time.

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm a fan and looking forward to the completion of the Prometheus trilogy.

I recently re-watched Prometheus...still scratching my head at a lot of things but I don't hate it...and I hope the next 2 films answer a lot of questions...

I do like how Shaw's "baby" was sort of a prototype facehugger that in turn gave birth to an "alien" like creature. Not sure if we will see that again in the next one but who knows. Looking forward to that...and this true "Alien 3" that Neil Blomkamp is putting together.

@Dashrender said:

The key in this regard is to not expose port 80. Though I'm sure hackers can still exploit flaws in the listener for SSL, when they exist.

You can bind SSL to port 80 if you want. the browsers won't care.

It's almost NO CONTEST now after watching this video:

Youtube Video

Great!

@Breffni-Potter said:

You've still not identified how it is legal or even possible for a complete random to compel me to pay them to search them.

They might not be able to compel you to pay them. but as Dustin said, you might be required to bring in an outsider to do an audit, so then YOU are paying them (the outside auditor) to do said audit. But if you have nothing to audit, there is nothing to pay. Or in this case, if you limited yourself to two years of back email, they would only be spending time going through the last two years, not the last 20+

Oh, also, I heard there was an issue with the OneDrive for Business sync client... Trying to find link to article\post...

MJF tweeted about it earlier... https://twitter.com/maryjofoley

@creayt

@creayt said:

@garak0410 said:

I am not anti-Apple and have no bone to pick with them. I am just heavily invested in a Microsoft world both at work and home and just prefer their ecosystem...BUT.........

Not that Apples announcements were earth shattering but as always, they make it look new and cool. I've been a patient Microsoft fan since the day I finally let go of my Amiga in 1992 as my full time PC. I even embraced Pocket PC through Windows Mobile 6.5, Zune and I actually own a Kin.

But is it me or does everything they seem to do feel half-baked or abandoned? Serious...what is Microsoft doing in all they do? Why is Outlook (Windows 10 app) so buggy? What is the status of Kinect (some of us actually like it as a gaming device)? Why is Skype still not integrated and still showing LIVE ID's? Where are the tools to convert iOS and Android apps to Windows? Why has HoloLens been pushed way back? Where is our touch version of Windows Movie Maker? Where is a Microsoft equal to iLife? Why is waiting another 1-3 months for a flagship so painful? Where is the COHESION????? Why does everything and every idea seem so half-baked????

I totally love my XBOX One as a media center...I like Windows 10 despite it having a lot of half-baked features...I actually do use a third party app for my media, PLEX, since Microsoft Dropped Windows Media Center and it works quite well.

I think I have a legitimate vent here...LOL

I'ma say they are terribly misguided and could take their OS to new heights w/ a few simple steps, but compared to OS X they offer one distinct, deal-making advantage: Performance. Everything is much much more responsive in Windows than OS X. It's why I can't work on OS X and have been disappointed w/ every mac I've ever owned.

Hopefully they'll ditch the metroey looks and get an actual designer to redo windowing and icons, but still... Windows is just fast. That's why I use it, and that's why, with one eye closed, I love Microsoft. I don't want to imagine a world where I'd have to get work done w/ OS X or Ubuntu. Shiver. I just don't want to even imagine that.

P.S. Zunes were awesome!!!!! The Kin software looked sweet but I never played w/ one.

P.S.S. Image uploads still don't work in Chrome, 3 weeks later.

Kin Studio was ahead of its time:

I can agree from experience that working with a Mac for a few months, I was not impressed. At least it wasn't this religious experience that Apple fans make it out to be. I do a lot of video editing and I knew iMovie wasn't a top notch editor but with it being on par with what I use often on Windows (Adobe Premiere Elements), I sure expected better performance...in fact, it crashed a lot!

I loved my Zune and finally sold it when I saw no future...and I've battled 2-3 years of SLOW, SLOW progress in what is now Groove Music (devolving to XBOX Music and then slowly improving into Groove Music).

@thecreativeone91 said:

Price is a kind expensive for what is is. You can get much better spec phones cheaper.

You can't put a price on "cool" ....
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oh, wait...

@garak0410 said:

Or perhaps some huge movie promotion that will go viral!

If anyone is responsible...it can only be:

http://michaelbay.com/

@scottalanmiller said:

@garak0410 said:

My company isn't sold on subscription models, especially when Office 365 was going to run is 20K a year or so, so we just continue to get individual Office installs and just pay for Exchange Online only.

That's a confusing way to state that. Office 365 is the name of the subscription licensing scheme and Hosted Exchange is the most popular component of that.

It's that MS Office via Office 365 licensing was going to be $20K a year and that you are using Office 365 for Exchange only.

Right...sorry...if we were to have added Office to that, then, yes, 20K a year on average.

https://github.com/christian-korneck/get_win8key#files

I still have P4 Optiplexes running here.... so there ya go.

@s.hackleman said:

Hang in there, when we bought our house, it took a few tries. We fell in love with one, and went to make an offer. The seller had just accepted another offer from another couple while we were standing in the house looking at it and talking about what we wanted to spend. We went back to looking, made another couple offers, and it all worked out. Don't give up if the first few are rejected, and don't just pay sticker price unless you can't live without it.

It is actually kind of fun...keeping my wife's emotional attachment off the house...THAT'S the challenge. And I say that with love because I do love her! LOL

They are in good company with the NYSW and WSJ 🙂

Have you seen the new price increase on LMI? We've been told it is more than doubling with the next re-up. Ours was going to jump from $1500 to $3700!! All while going from rock solid to unable to stay connected.