Crashing right after login is usually a profile or GP issue. Have you tried nuking his local profile, or checking your RSOP on the machine?

@scottalanmiller said in Weekend Plans:

There is a party at my house Saturday evening that we hope to make.

Things only @scottalanmiller says, entry #9,384,756.

@dafyre said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@Kelly said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@dafyre said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@JaredBusch said in O365 External Contact Issue:

@Kelly said in O365 External Contact Issue:

Why aren't you just using one or the other system for students since they're both free?

Because he likes to overcomplicate things apparently.

Only some times.

No, this is a decision made before I ever got here... and as others have mentioned, I have no idea why it is like this, but I know of several schools who do so... It's mind boggling.

I pushed the school I worked at off of GApps pretty fast so I would only have to support one platform.

I wish I had that kind of clout here. At my last job, our students would have gone into open rebellion had we disabled Google. I actually wanted to push everybody to Google, but there was some political crap going on that I wasn't privy to.

Even pushing the students to GApps and staff on O365 is better than the bastardization you're fighting with.

I just nuked an email from a major network vendor that was effectively spam, and took me a second to figure out why I had dismissed it instantly. I realized that the subject line had no capitalization (en-gb translation: capitalisation). Such a simple thing lost the sales person even the opportunity for eyes on the message. I haven't rejected the vendor entirely, that is a relatively minor thing, but I did learn something about myself today.

I've actually been looking at the commercial version of XO for my primary backup system now that I'm almost 100% XenServer. It looks like decent value for the money.

Are all of them on the same site? Do they use the same DNS server for resolution?

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Texkonc said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Pretending to work on my final 3 days.

New job or are you just going to try your hand at the "homeless" approach?

He's going to become a freegan.

Wow, I knew that people with those views existed, but the amount of ignorance of economics is appalling. Add in the refusal to accept laws that they don't agree with...

Prices on SSDs have come down enough that they compare pretty favorably to 15k drives.

I just realized that I've had the theme song for Strawberry Shortcake rattling around in my head for the last few hours... The unmentioned benefits of having young children...

@wrx7m said in RAID recommendation for Hyper-V host:

I didn't realize enterprise SSDs had come down enough to compete with 15k drives. Interesting.

https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-2rc-0034-000b7 = $0.53 per GB. It is still more, but the value can be justified, imo.

@JaredBusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

'Th' sound to vanish from English language by 2066 because of multiculturalism, say linguists

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/09/28/th-sound-to-vanish-from-english-language-by-2066-because-of-mult/

‘TH’ stopping – the dental consonants ‘th’ will be replaced by ‘d’ meaning ‘this’ or ‘that’ will become ‘dis’ and ‘dat’

‘TH’ fronting – Words which begin with a ‘th’ sound will be lost so ‘thin’ will become ‘fin’ and ‘think’ will change to ‘fink’

Sound softening – hardly anyone says ‘syoot’ for ‘suit’ anymore and the trend will continue with the sharp corners knocked off words

Yod dropping - words like ‘cute’ or ‘beauty’ will become ‘coot’ and ‘booty.’

Consonant smushing – ‘W’ and ‘r’ are already similar for many southern English speakers but the letters could completely collapse into one sound. Words with ‘ch’ and ‘j’ could also become indistinguishable.

Glottal stop – the slight linguistic trip which turns ‘butter’ into ‘bu’er’ in dialects like Cockney and Geordie will become more prevalent across the country.

Emojis – happy face, sad face, or wink will become part of language and facial expressions.

That isn't a future event for a large part of the British Isles, particularly the "th".

@Kelly said in Office 365 Enterprise E1 - What Can I Use For Simple Collaboration?:

The way these types of workflows work in Sharepoint Online are through sites there. You would create a calendar associated with your group, e.g. Project A Calendar in Project Management site. Planner is also linked to a given site (team or otherwise).

And then you can add Sharepoint calendars to Outlook easily. Just go to the calendar in the web browser, and click on Add to Outlook or somesuch (not using this functionality at this job so I can't look it up).

So with Alphabet's announcement of the death of Nexus, Microsoft doing something similar with WP, and Apple refusing to innovate I'm kind of at a loss for my next smartphone platform. I don't really like how intrusive Google is, but I was prepared to deal with it in exchange for a Nexus device. Now there isn't going to be any more of them, and the Pixel is what it is. I currently have an iPhone 6 running the newest iOS version, and I'm happy with the improvements they've made in this iteration, but they're only just catching up to features WP had years ago, and Android implemented more recently, but still awhile ago. And I don't want to pay an Apple premium for their devices.

Are there any bright spots on the horizon?

What is the point of duplicating the discussion here? I understand that there were some objections to the moderation approach, but since the OP is not part of the discussion, is this anything more than an academic exercise?

@scottalanmiller said in Smartphone doldrums:

@Kelly said in Smartphone doldrums:

@scottalanmiller said in Smartphone doldrums:

Is innovation that big of a deal? I mean, from my perspective, the iPhone may not be innovating at a crazy pace, but everyone else only appears to innovate faster by playing catch up.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. iOS is missing features that are common on other platforms, and only has a few features that others are missing that are mostly gimmicks of one sort or another. They are finally catching up in the area of notifications after years of having the worst system on the market.

Having used both... what Android features are innovative and missing? Not intentionally missing as a design choice which is arguably every bit as innovative.

Frankly, nothing other than inductive charging springs to mind. My point is not what they're missing, but the lack of adding more than catch up features for several iterations of iOS. In addition the iPhone hasn't changed markedly (aside from the size they said they'd never do) since Jobs died. There is no way for me to justify spending so much money on a smartphone (won't buy a high end Samsung either) on a phone with that pedigree.

@DustinB3403 said in CP - Dell vs HP server quotes:

@Kelly said in CP - Dell vs HP server quotes:

What is the point of duplicating the discussion here? I understand that there were some objections to the moderation approach, but since the OP is not part of the discussion, is this anything more than an academic exercise?

Academic purposes are the exact reason. To explain why a proposed solution needs to be adjusted, and ways that it can be improved in all directions.

Less hardware, less complexity, more stability, lower capitol expenditure and improved results.

(Also I've invited the OP to the topic immediately after posting, he's welcome to join or not)

Ok, that makes sense.

My frustration with Apple is not Apple vs Android, although there is some comparison. It is that a company who controls their own hardware and software for so long and has so much money and potential to push UI and features has chosen to rest on the tried and true. It is a purely personal frustration, but it is one factor that makes me less interested in an iPhone over another, more feasibly priced device.

This might be a dumb question, but where do you have XOA running in this architecture? Is it running as a VM on one of the two nodes? If so, I am very interested in this. If not, I'm still very interested...

@mlnews It needs the rest of the comic for context.