Keep in mind this is not the modern way. Any professional AV company suggesting a solution like Scotts should be fired immediately. It's so freaking oblivious he has no professional AV experience but keeps pretending like his is the expert on the matter. Dude get over it. This forum is official worse than Spiceworks. So many idiotic suggestions that are lower than consumer level.

@IRJ said in SNHU:

Very reasonably priced at $800 which includes the class and the certification.

WTH the exam last 24hrs straight?

@Dashrender said in Odd Shaped Power Bricks and UPS:

I'm assuming @gjacobse is talking about the black cord only.

I don't know OSHA law/rules, but there should be no need to check for over current in the black part, it's a 1 to 1 connection. Assuming you plug the 1 to 1 and it's plugged directly into a UPS port, not a power strip like this picture.

1:1 does not necessarily imply no over current protection is needed.

@KOOLER said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

I repeat: you do BAD things. You give advices to people based on your special conditions (if they do exist, I don't really care about that) and people may get hurt. Everything else is lyrics.

I specifically stated we had emails from the rep saying it was okay. Now your questioning MY ethics and morals? A vendor is now PERSONALLY attacking people on forums.. yeah. great company.

@KOOLER said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@Jason said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

You do realize you are talking to someone at a fortune 100 right? I am way way bigger than your company. We have a big and great legal team. I don't know what the hell is with your attitude on here. Great way for a vendor to act. Guess we know to never do business with you.

Working as an employee for Fortune 100 company does't make you smarter / richer / happier than somebody who runs his "Mom&Dan" plumber shop on his own and built it from the ground up.

That's not even what we were talking about you brought up lawyers.. You enjoy being jerks over there at starwinds? I will never do business with such a company that has people acting like this.

You do realize you are talking to someone at a fortune 100 right? I am way way bigger than your company. We have a big and great legal team. I don't know what the hell is with your attitude on here. Great way for a vendor to act. Guess we know to never do business with you.

@ardeyn said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@Jason The thing is (I might be wrong though)
Pretty much any rep of any company works with a disclaimer, that sounds along the lines of "Any opinions expressed in this communication are not necessarily those of the company". This way you are still violating the EULA. This may not be immediately noticeable while you work with the aforementioned reps, however if you were to reach out to support and they will see what kind of license you are using, there may be trouble.
That being said, I am not sure it's the case, it just sounds like a possible course of action.

The emails do not include such a disclaimer. So that would not apply. We have a great legal team anyway. They've seen it.

@ardeyn said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

In before the EMC reps in question get told off for violating their own EULA and they inform you, you can't use it in production anymore, however you can get a 5% discount from the full paid license and a jar of cookies:)

They can't retro actively change it. They could prevent us from upgrading sure.

@KOOLER said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@Jason said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@Jason said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

You can also use EMC ScaleIO for free with your own hardware if you use the community for support https://www.emc.com/products-solutions/trial-software-download/scaleio.htm (or you can buy the software or pre-configured dell servers with it).

For commercial use, too? How did I not know that they had opened this up?

Yes, the EULA has no restrictions on that. Their marketing terms of course try to convey you should " When you are ready to purchase a ScaleIO software license for full production use and maintenance, contact a Sales Associate" but the EULA has nothing requiring it.

This isn't true. Don't get yourself intro trouble with misuse! You can't use it for production and you have to let EMC know you evaluate with a prod use in mind. That's EVERYTHING but free... IMHO.

https://www.emc.com/content/terms/eula-scaleio.htm

E. “Internal Business Purposes” means an internal (non-commercial) Use for the purpose(s) of testing and demonstrating the features of the Software, and not for Customer product development, product testing, or other Customer research and development or commercial purposes.

You are reading that incorrectly. That's just definitions, not the terms. Our EMC rep already confirmed it to us.

@scottalanmiller said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

@Jason said in Hardware refresh and Selling the Solution:

You can also use EMC ScaleIO for free with your own hardware if you use the community for support https://www.emc.com/products-solutions/trial-software-download/scaleio.htm (or you can buy the software or pre-configured dell servers with it).

For commercial use, too? How did I not know that they had opened this up?

Yes, the EULA has no restrictions on that. Their marketing terms of course try to convey you should " When you are ready to purchase a ScaleIO software license for full production use and maintenance, contact a Sales Associate" but the EULA has nothing requiring it.

You can also use EMC ScaleIO for free with your own hardware if you use the community for support https://www.emc.com/products-solutions/trial-software-download/scaleio.htm (or you can buy the software or pre-configured dell servers with it).

We have a gigabit sysmetrical connection. Sadly even if I run a speed test in the middle of the night it's only going to show 100-200mbps.

@Brains said in Hannspree & Hanns-G Monitors - No US Warranty Available - All Methods of Contacting Support Invalid:

@Jason said in Hannspree & Hanns-G Monitors - No US Warranty Available - All Methods of Contacting Support Invalid:

@Brains said in Hannspree & Hanns-G Monitors - No US Warranty Available - All Methods of Contacting Support Invalid:

@Jason said in Hannspree & Hanns-G Monitors - No US Warranty Available - All Methods of Contacting Support Invalid:

What do you expect for a crappy no-name brand?

Them to fulfill their promised obligations. But I wouldn't have called HannsG/Hannspree a no-name brand, they are definitely low end but their brand has been around for quite a while and they make decent monitors.

They are a chinese no name brand. and they are not decent monitors.

They are a Chinese named brand and they are decent monitors for the price. Feel free to add a discussion here, or we can go back and forth contradicting each other and getting no where.

I was adding my thoughts. You posted in a public forum, if you don't like comments don't post.

@Brains said in Hannspree & Hanns-G Monitors - No US Warranty Available - All Methods of Contacting Support Invalid:

@Jason said in Hannspree & Hanns-G Monitors - No US Warranty Available - All Methods of Contacting Support Invalid:

What do you expect for a crappy no-name brand?

Them to fulfill their promised obligations. But I wouldn't have called HannsG/Hannspree a no-name brand, they are definitely low end but their brand has been around for quite a while and they make decent monitors.

They are a chinese no name brand. and they are not decent monitors. HannStar is who is behind them all, and they have several other random brands they use.

All of these here will be in the same boat

https://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Signature-Edition-PCs/categoryID.69916600

@Dashrender said in Latest from Lenovo - locked in to Windows:

yeah it's crappy that Lenovo enabled the FakeRAID by default, but is it true that it can't be disabled?

No not of as yet. It's Microsoft's requirement here not Lenovo's This is because the Lenovo Yoga 900 is part of the Microsoft Signature Series. It's mostly sold at Best buy I believe.

@coliver said in Who is the Real IT Manager?:

@Jason said in Who is the Real IT Manager?:

@scottalanmiller said in Who is the Real IT Manager?:

@Jason said in Who is the Real IT Manager?:

Most people are taught to micromanage now days.. There are plenty of business colleges, online articles and business training teaching that micromanagement is underrated and is actually a good thing for the business

I've never seen that. All of the business training that I've seen and had, from books to university, was that micromanagement means you've totally failed as a manager and have left your manager role and are actually the worker and should either simply be moved into the worker role or removed as a manager. Micromanagement literally was taught as "failed management" by definition.

well a lot of people go to online college now. strayer, phoenix all teach things like this.

So no real universities?

Do many people actually go to real campuses anymore?

The latest version of Java 8 is here https://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

If you want Java 7 you will have to pay for support.

Must Have:

Abliitiy to have lots of IT staff,

Connect on LAN without agent install
Connect via one time download without admin rights and ability to gain admin rights as a service etc with that (using your account)
Unattended access with agent (preferablity that can be invoked/installed via connect on LAN/One time without any need to do anything on the desktop itself)

Is there anything else that actually meets all of this? ScreenConnect does not.