Prepping for interview 2 of 4 this week.

Introduced my daughter to Oscar. It is probably the only comedy that Silvester Stallone made on purpose. It is the epitome of situational comedy, but hilarious if you've never watched it. The grammar jokes with Tim Curry are the best.

@dave_c said in Proper AD PDC Time confirguration in Hyper-V?:

@taurex
Thank you, I will try and report back.
I tried with Hyper-V time sync enabled (per Veeam instructions linked in OP) and disabled (as everyone else recommends); none worked. Actually, Veeam's recommendation kind of makes sense.

I never considered that the host should be synchronized with the same external source. That is because the host is AD joined and the general recommendation is to have all AD joined computers/server to sync with PDC emulator.

The problem with this is that you can end up in a loop where time can drift uncontrollably. Since the PDCe is syncing to the host and the host is syncing to the PDCe you have nothing authoritative handling time externally and keeping it consistent. That is why most recommend disabling host synchronization for your DCs.

Star Wars Edge of the Empire session tonight. We're nearing the end of a multi year campaign.

Unless you're wanting to use Powershell for a learning experience you might look at something like this: http://www.cjwdev.com/Software/ServiceCredMan/Info.html. If you still want to use the Powershell route this might be a good way to check the success of your script.

@scottalanmiller said in Can You Export List of Email Accounts from Office 365:

That's what I want... basically a list (preferably comma separated) of every email account (not alias) that we have in Office 365. Anyone know if that is possible, and if so, how do we find it? Probably some PowerShell command will do that.

It contains a lot of additional information, but you can export your list of users in a CSV by clicking the Export button on the Users page.

@jmoore said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

I could use something like this occasionally. Is this a good option for someone starting out new with this kind of software or would you all start with something else now?

Helpdesk software is a bit of a dumpster fire. You have products that range from free to ridiculously expensive. The features that it has and you require are typically what drive that. If your budget for purchase/on going is less than your available labor budget then looking at the free options like this or Spiceworks is a good place to start. I can't recommend Spiceworks any more due to the fact that it appears that they're not serious developing the application. I could be wrong about that last, but their public communication is pretty lackluster in that regard.

@dafyre said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@travisdh1 said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@tonyshowoff said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

He gets busy and pops in when he gets time.

A person like that lacks the dedication required to really belong to this cult forum.

#cultofscottalanmiller It's a bit long for a good catchphrase.

Why not #cultofSAM ?

I lub me some surface to air missiles.

Thanks @dbeato. Itis helpful to see it.

Destiny 2 and Civ VI are still my go tos when I have time and opportunity.

@dbeato said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

I have been using it for the last 4 years and it is my personal RMM. No calls at all for me. Sure you get them once or twice at the beginning but that’s it.

Have you tried their helpdesk/service desk software?

@wrx7m said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

I would be interested in finding out your/their top picks.

Helpdesk as a category is such a mess. Zero budget for recurring costs makes it extra fun. I'll have to see if they want me to invest the time to test options.

Cool, makes sense. Thanks.

@scottalanmiller said in Have you looked at Itarian's (formerly Comodo) suite of tools?:

I have, but unaware that they got renamed, looked at the just the other day.

Any thoughts on it?

Starting the discovery process for helpdesk alternatives for a client, and I ran across this: https://us.itarian.com/. They have a ton of free tools, but that makes me leery. I love me some free software, but I'm curious how they keep the lights on. Have any of you looked at their stuff?

@siringo said in Add devices to Apple School Manager:

@Kelly said in Add devices to Apple School Manager:

Have you tried adding it to DEP using the configurator?

https://simplemdm.com/2017/09/28/ios-11-dep-apple-configurator-2-5/

I was hoping I wouldn't have to handle these things again. Thanks @Kelly I may have to.

There are two ways of doing things in the Apple world, the Apple way, and the other ways. And neither of them work easily, logically, or frequently.

Have you tried adding it to DEP using the configurator?

https://simplemdm.com/2017/09/28/ios-11-dep-apple-configurator-2-5/

Civ VI new expac launches today.

@NashBrydges said in Backing up Office 365:

If you happen to have a Synology onsite, they also offer Active Backup For Office 365. I'm using this at a small client's site with ~40 mailboxes. Works pretty well.

I don't have one onsite. I may throw that into the mix though.

@Danp said in Backing up Office 365:

How many users? I think the Veeam solution is free up to 10.

Adoption is mixed. Definitely more than 10.