@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wondering why adding a few square feet of plastic and some wheels to an air conditioner raises the price 300 dollars.

Over-engineering?

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oracle charging money for Java SE going forward.
https://www.java.com/en/download/release_notice.jsp

That might not be the final nail in the coffin, but it sure leaves a big gaping bullet wound.

Maybe more of an incentive to get rid of Java. That may be Oracle's end game.

Why are you paying every 4 years? Why not turn this into an operations expense and renew either monthly or annually? Not sure on education levels but Pro Plus levels and up gets Office 2016 as apart of the licensing.

Typically you're going to need at least Exchange 2013, but is recommended to have Exchange 2016.

I don't know your exact situation, but hopefully this will point you in the right direction.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/office-365-hybrid-cloud-solutions-overview-59616fab-acdb-40e9-b414-cf0c965c80b7

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Listening to Du Hast - Ramstein. Everyone needs a little Ramstein to star their day off

That's kind of like waking up to a brass-knuckle punch in the face.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Woke up and thought today was Friday till about 10 minutes before I left for work. I hate that.

Nothing ruins your Friday like realizing that it is Thursday Not Friday

FTFY

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Been on a lot of calls this morning.

Been on my feet all day.

I'm Sorry to hear about that.

Ehh, about typical. When you're the only IT person in the entire facility, it comes with the job, along with ~200 computers and keeping production going.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Been on a lot of calls this morning.

Been on my feet all day.

@jt1001001 Are you sure you're getting to your dashboard on the web and not trying to use the same address that the computer is?

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

How It Ends on Netflix.

That sounded interesting.

It was ok but I wouldn't spend a dime to go see this at the theater.

Frankly I'm getting tired of the steady diet of apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic movies/tv shows.

They come and go in cycles like everything from Hollywood. Most suck.

Revolution was an interesting concept. But the science behind it was so horribly unbelievable.
Nanites suppressing EMF? How do the maintain their own power? How do they communicate with the satellites and each other? Just WTF.

Then the whole magic pendant that suppresses them locally. When it turns off to check in generator that has not run in years can suddenly run on? WTF?

Plus, doesn't our own bodies run on electricity firings? Why didn't they kill us?

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nerdydad I've never used it but my one develoer guy's trying it. I'll post this heear reqal quick in case anyone's seen it before. Can get connection to work from his desktop, but using Microsoft' gateway it bombs out with an SSL error every time, but we have encryption turned off! Going to patch the SQL server to lastes and greatest level tonight to see if that fixes it but looking for other opinions.

Do you have a proxy between this server and the Internet?

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

any PowerBI experts out there?

I have one, but its not me.

@scottalanmiller said in I’d rather be....:

Scotland. @Dominica took this train two weeks ago.

Looks like a hogwartz train.

@wrx7m said in Microsoft Hello for Business: What is your opinion?:

Does it work with Azure AD free?

Not sure. If you purchase O365 licensing, then you get a very skimped down version of Azure AD. So, yes?

So the boss and I are kicking around the idea of implementing Microsoft Hello for Business and potentially getting rid of passwords altogether. We have the required software and infrastructure, or it could be easily implemented as it requires at least 2008R2 Domain and 2016 Schema. We utilize O365, so hybrid implementation would be our strategy. Most of the PCs on the network are Windows 10 (hopefully past 1709). So, implementation doesn't seem too far off. Something that I could get done by the end of the year.

But, I want to know what your opinion of the technology in the workplace. Is it solid? What weaknesses or problems does it have? More complexity for not much more benefit?

@scottalanmiller Can you add some tags for "Microsoft Hello", "Microsoft Hello for Business", and "MHfB"?

Turkey Burgers and fries. Just polished off some chocolate ice cream.

@jimmy9008 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Watching the British Inbetweeners, drinking Cobra, looking forward to asking GFs dad tomorrow over dinner and beers for permission to propose to his daughter. Fun fun.

Good luck

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got the dates for "Tech Fest"
Looks like this fall i may end up in Dallas for a few days!

@scottalanmiller I think we need a MangoMeetup coincidentally around the same time. Think that could happen?

What are the dates?

October 3-5

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got the dates for "Tech Fest"
Looks like this fall i may end up in Dallas for a few days!

@scottalanmiller I think we need a MangoMeetup coincidentally around the same time. Think that could happen?