Fix the storage issue then move to VMs on the systems that you have, most likely.

@g.jacobse said:

I agree - that type of message just tells me that I don't want to partner with you. But it is a form of cold calling...

It sure is, something that we block completely. There is good and bad cold calling, though. If you cold call me and ask to speak to me, I'm not going to be pissed, I'll just hang up. But if you cold call and demand to set something up rather than politely asking if we can.... we are done and you are actively blocked and will never get our business.

There is legitimate sales and downright unprofessional "never do business with them" sales. A company doing these tactics definitely does not believe in their own product and is trying to get sales through an intimidation style rather than through presenting a good product.

@scottalanmiller said:

One could argue, I suppose, that in a non-AD environment that that might be true. Can still be done, but isn't quite so obviously easy and transparent. But that would just be people being lazy.

Except this was a discussion about workstations in an AD (SBS2008) environment

@scottalanmiller said:

And why does one need DNS references to workstations in those cases anyway?

No idea.

If it's a UEFI-enabled BIOS and it was in UEFI mode, it wouldn't see an older version of DBAN. That was probably your issue.

This is actually a problem in PowerShell too because it has the same 256 limit!! Which I just don't understand why this hasn't been permanently fixed--problem has only been around for a decade or so!

Anyway, to accomplish in PowerShell the best bet is to use Robocopy to just list the directories, then it's child's play to get the lengths > 256 and display. It's the Robocopy that's a pain, luckily:

http://thesurlyadmin.com/2014/08/04/getting-directory-information-fast/

Not exactly on topic, but it has the code for building an array with the data in it. 🙂

I heard about this. Pretty interesting...

it is all that I can handle!!

Well here it is,... I haven't opened it yet.. trying to speculate just how long it would take to open it...

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Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?

Not that i have found. We add the "public" account to each users phone and just sync the calendar. I believe if you had something like Sharepoint you could sync it correctly.

So you created another mailbox, granted everyone rights to it that needed it, then you sync two accounts on their device, the users own mailbox and the "public" box?

If this is right, do you have problems with people sending email from the wrong account on the device?

Correct. I turn off syncing of mail to the public account. Which seems to prevent them from sending mail as that account.

Great idea, I know that works on i-devices, I'm not sure about android.

We have 3 Android devices so far. The user actually has to go through some significant effort to send mail as that other account if it isn't synced. I've also turned off external delivery for that mailbox so it will only send mail internally. I really don't recommend this unless it is a last resort, it is finicky and sometimes the phones just stop updating the calendar for some reason, the only fix is to remove that account and re-add it at least so far.

From your lips to god's ears! I'm dealing with this issue right now with several iPhones - for whatever reason random iPhones will refuse to sync a random appointment here or there, but others before or after seem to work just fine.

Yep... the only fix I've found thus far is to remove the entire account and re-sync it. We have ~3500 calendar reservations that get synced so it is a pain for users to do.

@coliver said:

We have a great Konica press-quality printer, it has amazing quality but we have to have the maintenance guy come in every 2-3 weeks to do re-alignment/repairs. During our busy season he is in every 2-3 days...

From talking to other colleagues this happens across all vendors - I'd say we have Konica out every 4-6 weeks to work on something, though this rarely means downtime. It's much better than the near weekly visits from Toshiba (and the Toshiba was offline 1 day in ten while we had it).

Our general office MFPs are all Sharps through the same company. Two of them we own outright with a maintenance agreement, the third is still under lease. We see that maintenance guy once every six months or longer.

Our desktop MFPs, Laniers, have a normal volume around 10K/month. They see service about every 4-6 months.

OneDrive for Business works, even normal OneDrive would work for this.

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@g.jacobse said:

I will look at LastPass - but even at $12.oo a year,.. I'm not sure I want to pay for something... I like OpenSource and free if possible. But respect the authors and they do very much deserve support for the work they do.

It is free to use. You only have to pay for the Premium membership if you want to use the app on your mobile device. But at that point it is the same as KeyPass, just slightly better in that as a commercial application, things are generally more polished.

I would vote for Eaton as well.

NTG uses xByte. They've been great. @g.jacobse already uses them so that works out well for him 🙂

Any luck getting them to whitelist you?

@g.jacobse said:

SharePoint Work flows? It's unlikely since we haven't delved that far yet...

InfoPath is really a tool primarily for getting data into SharePoint. So if getting data into SharePoint's database so that you can manipulate, store and workflow it then InfoPath is really good. If your goal is something else, then it just generates XML. If you are building your own XML parsing system then that is great. If not, probably not the tool for you.

Once your network is set up, AD integration would be what you do next so that any and all account details are tied to it. But if you don't have AD, it doesn't matter.

@g.jacobse said:

While I've not spoke to anyone about it, it seems impractical to have both PSUs plugged into the same UPS, so why not split them and then identify them by color.

Definitely impractical. Not 100% wasted as it does protect against PSU failure, still. But it does not leverage the degree of protection that you should have.

Mine is "Hello, you've reached the voicemail of the IT Department, please leave a message and we'll get back to you".

Honestly, if they're so stupid that they need instructions on how to leave a message (like telling them to leave a number), then I really don't want to talk to them. Then again, my voicemail system records the number they're calling from anyway, so it's generally not required.

Not that I ever phone anyone back anyway. I'm an e-mail only kind of guy.