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@stacksofplates said in At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Exchange:

@Dashrender said in At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Exchange:

@StorageNinja said in At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Exchange:

@DustinB3403 said in At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Exchange:

At a prior position they went full tilt "O365/SSO everything" and while it all worked with a LOT of effort the monthly cost was insane per user, something like $42/U/Month for just our 1 location of 160 people.
Globally they had over 9000, that's a huge burden.

Except it's not.

It's opex not capex, so it's not dragging down RIOC ratio's for wall street. (big in Mfg and some industries). It's just dumped into the fully burdened cost of an employee. If your average employee is paid 50K they probably cost another 20K in benefits, training, taxes, office space, utilities and other overhead a year. Paying $42 a user per month at that scale gets you out of: "owning" versions of Office Suite is great until you end up with 4 different versions of office in the office. Then it becomes a nightmare Managing Exchange and Sharepoint etc at scale is a full-time job. paying someone else to manage it wins vs. hiring people to do that. Again it's $42 per user per month. We were spending more than that per employee on drinks and snacks before COVID hit. stocking 14 flavors of le croix, and the thousands of pounds of M&M's and "the good nuts" adds up. For a company with 9000 users, something that people are spending hours a day in, that's just cheap.

All that easily makes sense - at that scale.
I know I don't live in anywhere near that scale, and I don't believe Dustin does either.
2/3's of our employees get paid $20K/y.
It can, and likely does still make sense to do it, spend the $42/u/m, but as is contantly talked about on these forums... most small businesses play at business, they don't really run one.

At $20k a year the business is paying somewhere near $2500 a month to employ that person. $42 is nothing out of that.

Yeah I get that... but that's frequently not how finance has looked at it.. instead they look at - holy shit - it's $4200 a month for this?
but things they are a changin' so who knows what the future holds.

I do really hope the change looks at it more as an employee cost and less about the $4K/m number.

@IRJ it's like tagging Trump on Twitter, I didn't want to increase his followe count

That is awesome! Good job integrating that with some newer technology.

I... just... what...

@tim_g

In the pictures, battery was turned off.

Now, battery is out of the car.

@Harry-Lui said in Questions regarding to removing orphaned dc, adding dc, getting DHCP working:

So, I backed up the DHCP on DC1, save it on the virtual drive, then add that virtual drive on DC2, authorized DC2 to be the DHCP server and then restored the DCHP. DCHP is working again! 🙂

Will work on DC0 and DC1 tomorrow.

Huh - that worked, eh? Do you have a single IP space over these two locations? or you mean DHCP is working at site 2 now?

@Harry-Lui said in Need advise, restoring domain controller and email server.:

All our VM guest servers are backed thru Barracuda, which takes snap shot then backup the server. Great for an application server. It does NOT work for DC because once you restore the DC, the GUID changes, and AD on that DC will be broken.

All VM backup solutions work by making snapshots to freeze the disk state that is going to be backed up.

Why your restore changed some GUID is an unrelated issue.

I have backed up and restored a DC, many, many times over the years and never had this kind of problem.

Hell, I have done a backup and restore of a SBS server with zero issues other than the inbound email from the point in time of the snapshot being lost.

@momurda said in What do you think of these ping response time from these switches?:

@JaredBusch said in What do you think of these ping response time from these switches?:

Regarding that last screenshot.

Connect to the serial port and verify boot completed and all that. then start your pings.

It is entirely possible it was still booting.

Yes that might be true; the ping times incrementally get larger until they go back to 1, at least in the screenshot, but not the posted wall of text.
In the first wall of text ping times start high and go down slowly.
In the last screenshot they start low and get higher til they all go back to 1.
To me this is either something booting up, or a bottleneck somewhere.
I might check the wireless stuff as a starting point.

All pings/logs are from different switches. Please read the notes.