Posts made by Mike Davis

You've looked at any custom Excel Add-ins? When you say not stable, you mean that certain apps bog down? High CPU usage?

Might want to create two channels. One for IT stuff and one for music. There are probably lots of people that would subscribe to one or the other, but not both.

Are you a MSP or in corporate IT? I became a reseller, so now I'm using TechData.

I'm not sure where you got that picture, but it looks like a data guy did that one. Phone guys typically strip the cables way back and typically bring the pairs in from the top and down when the punch them down. On the other hand, maybe that's just a regional thing.

@dyasny said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

I'm talking about how a combination of taxes and private companies can create healthy competition, while keeping healthcare at a good level and easily accessible.

That's the key to finding the balance.

@scottalanmiller said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

In the US my tax rate was 52%, that's higher than Finland, and the healthcare coverage was abysmal.

I thought Texas had no personal income tax and the highest federal rate is 37%. How do you figure 52%?

@JaredBusch said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

I may be too American, but I refuse to believe that privatized healthcare can ever actually be valid.

Talk to someone who has experienced the VA for healthcare. You will then get an idea of what government healthcare looks like. It isn't always pretty.

I like the Dutch system of health care vouchers. It gives everyone coverage, but is competitive because private companies compete for the voucher money.

@scottalanmiller said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

Cars SHOULD be priced off of the road.

You've lived in some pretty sparsely populated parts of the country. What would public transport cost in Piffard, NY? I think cars would like a cheap and reasonable alternative to busses running down all the country back roads every hour.

We need to stop calling these things free and call them tax payer funded.

The poor mans way is to hold a patch cable up to a LED on one end and aim the other end at a piece of paper or something and see if you can see the light.

Fiber typically doesn't have issues. All the times I've been called in to check something like that out, it's because someone plugged something in to the other port of a dual personality port or something like that that made them think the fiber was down. Not saying a backhoe couldn't take one out, it just there are lots of other issues that can take a link down.

I spend a year in Finland, which means I lived through the depressing winter and the invigorating summer. They are well aware of seasonal depression, so they plan activities in the evenings with lots of lights during the winter. There are lots of great things about Finland, but I don't think these studies are realistic.

Free college sounds great to Americans. How does 100% sales tax on cars? Free health care sound great, but exponential increasing taxes doesn't.

The bottom line is that you can do whatever you want, but it comes at a cost.

Be happy where you are. Be grateful for what you have. I live in a part of NY that has brutal winters, but no mosquitoes in the winter so I can be happy about that.

@scottalanmiller said in RMM Ideas for MSP:

@Mike-Davis said in RMM Ideas for MSP:

Are there any other MSPs in here?

Tons. Probably close to half of the community.

wow. That really surprises me. I've been on here since the beginning and I never got that sense.

Are there any other MSPs in here? I'm using SolarWinds NCentral. Most of the "free" ones make their money by charging for the add ons. There are a lot of things to consider when choosing a RMM, like requirements of your client base and integrations with your PSA. When you're small, you can get by without integrations, but it's tough to scale.

get-mailbox | export-csv
doesn't do it?

To answer the original question, you don't have to make it a domain controller.
https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/09/05/windows-server-2019-essentials-update/

Windows Server 2019 Essentials has the same licensing and technical characteristics as its predecessor, Windows Server 2016 Essentials. If configured as a Domain Controller, Windows Server 2019 Essentials must be the only Domain Controller, must run all Flexible Single Master Operations (FSMO) roles, and cannot have two-way trusts with other Active Directory domains.

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@IRJ said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

No one here knows - we don't run that software.

No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?

No - most here run standard Windows Server or some flavor or Linux. Essentials is only for SUPER tiny environments (I think it's limited to 25 connections)... a version that at least with 2012 didn't require User CALs, making it significantly cheaper for super tiny shops that required Windows, but once you hit over 25, you got a HUGE upgrade cost i.e. full server license and 25+ CALs.

Yep. It is generally not reliable either. At least earlier version weren't. Throw all MS services on one piece of underpowered hardware and then throw all your apps over it. What could go wrong?

I guess i was lucky - when they started calling it Essentials - there weren't that many services left - File/Print/AD/DNS/DHCP and what WSUS? that's all pretty typical single box stuff in my mind. WSUS could be shit for sure, but the rest can work together no issues.

Back when it was SBS server and had Exchange and possibly a corporate firewall and SQL server - OMG - yeah, kill me now!.

That's just the out of the box stuff that can be simple solved off windows very easily

Dont forget that these businesses like to throw quickbooks and other poorly made sofware on their Essentials server including these other services which are already too much to have on one box IMO. It's 2019, virtualize

It would be interesting to know if Essentials allows for the install of 3rd party software like that?
Probably does..

QuickBooks is the reason I have so many Essentials servers out there. If the environment is large enough where you can't just make one computer "the server" and share QuickBooks from there, Server Essentials goes in along with QuickBooks Database manager and its 25 year old architecture and you call it a day.

@CCWTech said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

@Dashrender said in Server 2019 Essentials - Domain controller requirement:

No one here knows - we don't run that software.

No one here runs Server 2019 Essentials?

I tried to download the eval when it first came out and then they pulled it. Rolled a 2016 Essentials server last month when 2019 wasn't available.

@CCWTech Even with only 4 users, wouldn't that mean create 4 user accounts on the server and then manage 4 user accounts on 4 machines. I supposed you could use the net user command in screen connect, but setting up a domain is so easy. Does the connector for Essentials work when they are not domain joined, or does it domain join them when you run it?

Interesting question. Why would you not want to run it as a domain?