@coliver said in Reaching manhood - StarWind is included in Gartner Magic Quadrant!:

How much money did you guys pay to get in there?

And why? Being listed on Gartner is an active disincentive to any rational person.

@Obsolesce said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?:

@Reid-Cooper said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?:

This seems like a really odd pairing. Why would Microsoft want to alienate hardware vendors by getting into the high end switching game?

Probably for their Azure stuff.

Then they should just purchase the equipment, not the company. .

Troy Hunt uses it for the "I Have been PWned"
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@PhlipElder said in Annoyed with spam and spoofed emails? SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is your magic spell!:

@scottalanmiller said in Annoyed with spam and spoofed emails? SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is your magic spell!:

@PhlipElder said in Annoyed with spam and spoofed emails? SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is your magic spell!:

@coliver said in Annoyed with spam and spoofed emails? SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is your magic spell!:

@PhlipElder said in Annoyed with spam and spoofed emails? SPF, DKIM, and DMARC is your magic spell!:

And, sadly, Microsoft has decided to keep DKIM in O365 leaving on-premises Exchange 2019 deployments out in the cold. Third party only. 😞

Don't deploy exchange. Problem solved.

Tried that with Kerio. Ugh ... that was not a happy experience.

Nothing against Kerio, but hardly the alternative most would suggest to sample the non-Exchange world.

Zimbra, Kopano, Axigen, MailDaemon, etc. Lots of options that people routinely have great experiences with (like being easier than Exchange.)

I've not tried Kerio, but have used many. The experiences have been all over the place, but pretty universally easier to deploy than Exchange. Which is acceptable itself, not complaining about it. But by comparison, it required more training and prep and was still harder to do.

Example... as a certified Exchange Admin, Zimbra was still easier to do. And Axigen easier than that. Axigen, if I remember correctly, is the easiest deployment I've done for email.

Timing off the top:
1: Install Windows Server 2019 with latest CU slipstreamed in: 15 minutes
2: Initiate Exchange install and run: 30-60 minutes depending on guest performance
3: Run PowerShell scripts to set up for production: 5-10 minutes
4: Exchange SSL setup: 5 minutes
5: Done

Exactly. That's a bit more than the alternatives. Zimbra, for example, is more like 15 minutes total on top of the OS. OS installs are about the same.

SSL only takes a few minutes, must be roughly the same.

It's not worlds better, and I never claimed it was. Just ..... easier and faster. You left out a critical piece of Exchange... understanding and acquiring licenses.