@Minion-Queen We have yet to have to use Xbyte service, but that is good to know!

@dafyre If it was 100% up to me, Xbyte and done, but higher ups want more options/choice/excuses to put off spending$$ (more "paperwork", more for them to mull through you probably know the drill)

We alo get requests for specific vendors from our customers, which I have no control over. They want an HPE server, we have to quote an HPE server

Also looking to get some more experience on other hardware out there. For Example, Dell I've used iDRAC, would like to get familiar with HPE iLO as well.

Looking for reputable refurbished server vendors. Love @Xbyte for Dell refurbished (bought 2 from them so far no issues!), now looking for others for namely HP (HPE now) and possibly "white box" or SuperMicro. Seem's ServerMonkey is OK, anyone else we should look at?.

Reminds me of an old joke...
What do Captain Kirk and toilet paper have in comon??
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They both go around Uranus, searching for Klingons

@dafyre I know on one of my Dell machines I did a new driver that seemed to fix the vmq performance issue; on the other I did just completely shut it off.

I thought QLogic released new drivers that "fix" the VMQ issues?

Mee too, bit late

Nortel used to have a product called a Survivable Remote Gateway (SRG-50) was like a BCM that allowed for local survivability in case the CS-1000 at a main site went down. I've been out of the loop on the Nortel stuff for years now don't know if something equivalent in the Avaya world is still available? I'll ping my guys here and see what they say.
I"ve done similar with an Adtran 908e. FXS port connected to fax, FXO connected to copper line and SIP connected from AdTran to PBX (Lync 2010 back in the day) over T1 MPLS. Routing in AdTran to send inbound calls on the FXO to the fax machine. If user on site called 911, we had routing set up in Lync to send the call back down the SIP trunk to the AdTran which would send the call out its FXO port to the local PSAP. Worked OK but if the office MPLS was down the SIP trunk was down and 911 no worky (well it would, would default out the default route which was a PRI at the time at the head office)

Was busy yesterday, free today if you still need

I am in a meeting but I found a physical XP system with 2010 client stil on it (don't ask). Let me know if you need testing still and I can be available sometime today.

Do you need Lync 2010 CLIENT or SERVER? I still have 2010 client running on an XP VM that I can spin up, and our infrastructure is all currently Lync 2013 on prem

Netscape? No, needs Mosaic.
Checked and unfortunately our hot spare is already in use in one of our other offices.

@scottalanmiller Logging in using SSH with public/private keypairs instead of username/password to increase security might be a good topic or subtopic. Enjoying what has been posted so far!

Wow, I've been though that area nice little town.

3am...2 sick kids so I'm awake reading and catching up.

@scottalanmiller Did a 30 day demo of Exablox about 6 months ago. Was NOT impressed. Very slow throughput, management was I would call it sub-par at best. Was looking to use as a file share (NAS) and backup target, either primary backup storage or secondary. Now, admittedly, they did release their newer boxes about 2 months after our demo so may be worth a second look.

Watching 2 guys climb our tower to take down our old 5.8GHz Wireless T1 simualtor and put up our new Ubiquity 24 wireless bridge solution

@scottalanmiller had you not clarified I would've thought Greece the Rochester suburb!

Yep looks like us WNY/CNY'ers are well represented here. I work with @QUICKY2G who's in Rochester area

I got a Tivo Romanio with lifetime service when they were on sale Black Friday, and a TivoMINI for the 1 remote TV we have. Cable card rental is $5/month (compared to almost $30/month for the 2 boxes). So far wife friendly. Only complaint I have is by default it tries to record porgrams on SD channels not HD, but I think I got that sorted out. If we jump services I just get new cable card, or of we go OTA will work for recording local stations.