One "minor" weak point I have with it would be the equivalent of a knowledge base which is more of an osTicket problem than Itarian problem, but I'm positive it can be addressed by changing their add-ons they use. So if I were to use a tool such as MediaWiki or Zoho Wiki for comparison, then ITarian falls behind feature wise for making document management a breeze and also being able to produce doc's via pdf/word/text.

Also having something in mind like IT Glue which can "compile" your client documentation into a file/folder and making it downloadable or shareable is something it can't do but in theory yes you could use the "knowledge base" but that's more or less forking it for something it shouldn't be doing. I see issues of password management running up to.

In the case of my use of it, I'm still seeing more opportunities for me to use 3rd party apps in association with it. Sometimes that's fine but sometimes I lose the "single pane of glass". But honestly, the SPoG is too "marketing" for my taste with not much to show.

Great question actually. I don't use hyper-v much.

Technically it's "free" but they will ask you for a license fee for the advanced stuff. They make their money off the licenses, not the hosting per se.

That's not good been looking to use them for a while.

Yes it is a modified version of osTicket and I've been using it since they made it. Works fine for most things. I like the network scanning feature.

Considering everything is free up until the A/V it's worth it.

Came up on my radar for a MDM. Haven't heard of them before. Anyone got experience with them?

@dbeato OrangeHRM is "easy" but can be inflexible. Got a little experience with it. It's my ace up my sleeve if all else fails.

Does anyone have suggestions? I'm already aware of Zoho People, ICEHRM, Zenefits and GoCo. Preferably low to now cost.

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This one of those situations I think having an AI would help.

See for me I don't understand when and where to apply QoS. As one minute your told it's useless the other it's useful. Like what's missing is the context behind the usage. I agree with Jared in that if your enabling it, by that alone it doesn't mean something magical is happening, something specific is.

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Like for me I'd have to "see" why it isn't the option and the fallout for making a bad decision. I'm a bit of a visual and reader type learner.

@jaredbusch "Lots of people don't know WTF they are doing" Im sometimes one of those people. But I think the problem is due to a lack of proper explanation, training materials and scenarios. Not talking about you specifically but saying in general.

I guess a better thing to do would be to show us a network topology so we can see what's going on. Hell I need to do the same thing! My head hurts when we talk QoS.

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Scott I should be installing their upgrades probably this weekend! Can't wait to check on UNMS for them :person_bowing_medium-light_skin_tone:

Does Fedora do ZFS? I keep hearing all the pro's and con's of ZFS and I'm not that huge of a user of FreeNAS but people stand by it.

In theory I think Linux probably would do a better job at this than Windows, but again this depends on the driver set.

I'd like to make a mention that if they are that small, do they really even need a local file server? I see more and more compelling reasons for SOHO's and SMB's to just "stick with" Google Suite or Zoho. They get easier IT management and Google ties into almost any service. Most LAN based services should depending on the sensitivity of it, consider being moved to the cloud and let go of the LAN methodology. I do appreciate how @scottalanmiller have encouraged us to take a look at what we are doing and considering moving to a LANLess design.

One thing I'm interested in is trying to show and prove that most small businesses are buying into certain services on name or reputation alone (I'm looking at you Intuit) and often while those services work, they aren't ideal anymore. I am very into decoupling services that traditionally sat in a LAN.