Posts made by Kelly

That's what the NSA fears most. Being Snowed In.
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I'll show myself out.

I'll be there courtesy of Obliterase.

@garak0410 said:

There are rumors that the phone preview will be tomorrow...I'll still wait and see if it strips some of the functionality I need...plus, I wonder if my ICON needs Denim first, which is slated for this month too...

I think Gabe Aul killed those rumors today: http://www.windowscentral.com/about-those-rumors-february-4-release-windows-10-preview-phones.

@Dashrender I guess my use of rumored has to do more with my ability to get it

@scottalanmiller They've been selling quite a range of OEM gear for quite a while. I first became familiar with the Microsoft Store when they released the original Surface Pro.

You want an inexpensive 13" HP Stream, they have it. You want one of those sharp, minimal bezel Dell XPS laptops, they have it. Their selection is pretty decent from low to high.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/home

I'm really hoping that this rumored flagship Lumia is going to be carrier neutral. The Lumia brand has been hurt in the US by carrier exclusives.

The signature editions are the ones you buy from the Microsoft store. Either the regional retail locations or the online one.

Active Directory should always have DNS integrated. AD/DNS is finicky enough without introducing another layer of complexity and potential point of failure.

Changing over a holiday is one of the worst times to do it. The number of helpdesk spawned from something like that is way higher than it would need to be. It would be above and beyond the load just from forcing change on them all at once. First of you have the calls from the people who are compulsive email checkers when their email goes down on 1/1/15 at 12 am. Then you have all the people coming on 1/2/15 who can't be bothered to remember because they're still half hung over and will have to have it reset for them on 1/3/15. If you're adding in a new complexity requirement like you mentioned in the other thread, you're looking at an exponential growth in issues that could be mostly avoided by forcing the change mid week not any where close to a holiday.

That is usually part of the chipset drivers. Perhaps see if you can track down the manufacturer of the motherboard and see if they still have them since the OEM is no longer around.

Congrats @IRJ!

On a completely unrelated note, have y'all considered having the text in a quote show the most recently quoted post instead of the first one?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Kelly said:

Potentially having only set of credentials to manage.

Do you want to manage the credentials of mobile devices? Right now I don't have to manage that. That would be an additional workload. Mobile devices are assigned to people, not authenticated against central stores today. I'm not saying that that is a bad idea, but is there really a perceived value to that when a device is assigned to a person individually?

Some of this is because MDM and, to an extent, BYOD are in their infancy. Directory and authentication systems are still reactive rather than innovated for the most part. We have so many segregations within typical data and task flow that it isn't realistic or feasible to use authentication against a central store. My original answer was a look to the future. There may be a way and a day where this is useable, and needful. Where we have an experience similar to Corning's glass video. At that point I think a central authentication system would be not just nice, but required.

@scottalanmiller said:

What extra value would AD provide over that if we aren't leveraging AD authentication?

Potentially having only set of credentials to manage.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Kelly said:
What impression I have gotten is that people want the "other" things that are not AD related but don't actually want any of the AD features themselves (directory and authentication.)

I think that you are the first person to really state that authentication is desired. How do you picture that being useful? Do you want multiple users sharing mobile devices? Do you want people logging into phones like desktops?

Not personally no. That would not fly at my current company. I guess what I'm getting at (poorly it seems) is being able to control phone similarly to how I am able to control laptops. Be able to specify programs and network access based upon AD credentials. A typical login is not feasible on a device that small, but having a real, functional fingerprint scanner could replace that potentially.

@scottalanmiller said:

However, what people typically mean is something completely different. They don't want authentication or at least not only authentication but they actually want NTFS ACLs, an OS and/or filesystem feature. That's completely different.

Looks like I'm revealing a hole in my own education here. So even though the account that is used to evaluate access is an AD account you would not consider that something that is within the realm of AD?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Kelly said:

@thecreativeone91 Ok, contextualize with me. We're discussing integrating Active Directory with Mobile Devices, not discussing the separation of powers between the OS and the directory. Or at least I thought we were...

Well the discussions are one and the same. Why are we discussing the first? That's the question. Defining exactly what it does do and what it can do are pretty important when talking about how we want it to integrate since most of the desired integration, I believe, is around doing things that are not things done by AD.

Basically if people want their mobile devices to act like non-mobile devices, great. But we should discuss that as OS features. Calling OS level features "AD integration" causes confusion and leads us down completely different paths as it means something completely different.

You are correct that we need to define what we are discussing. In my mind when I talk about Active Directory services it is inclusive of all the functions that are properly the purview of the OS, but are extended because of integration with an AD domain. That is the context of my comments above. I am guessing, but I think with some sureness, that this is what most people mean when they want Active Directory integration. They want their mobile devices to be authenticated against the directory with policies and access applied by that authentication.

@thecreativeone91 Ok, contextualize with me. We're discussing integrating Active Directory with Mobile Devices, not discussing the separation of powers between the OS and the directory. Or at least I thought we were...

PRTG for network nodes. I'm checking out the Spiceworks Network Monitoring Beta to see if it might be able to replace PRTG or handle my servers.

@scottalanmiller That is some pretty fine hair splitting. Technically accurate, but without AD the OS cannot properly perform its tasks. For the purpose of this specific discussion, I don't think that getting that fine grained is particularly useful.