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@jaredbusch said in Bulk delete in OWA:

@gjacobse said in Bulk delete in OWA:

Came upon a different issue using OWA.. User has emails back to 2011, which they are okay to delete.

SHIFT - Select First and Last of 2011 does not select all of those emails. you have to basically list a page at a time to select them, and if you 'miss click' you have to start over again.

Deleting via Outlook was a pretty simple task - OWA - not so much. And what about Archiving? while email from 2011 is not likely to be needed, there are some that do need mail back to the beginning of time. - AH ,yes. I need to look more into the back end, and archiving. Right now, the user would like to be able to send/receive email... she hit the 50GB limit.

OWA sucks big ass donkey balls for anything beyond basic use.

But lessso than Outlook. So it's a tradeoff

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

FFS did I say something that was confusing.

Yes, you said that it was the expectation that a Type 1 would never be used in a desktop mode. This is confusing because this is an incredibly common use case for Type 1s - Hyper-V and KVM specifically see this all the time and are built specifically to accommodate it.

So much so, in fact, that both are used by automated tooling that use them in this way without even telling the user.

There are entire OSes built around KVM being always used in this way.

Snoop is down with the IPOD, which is what Pure is all about. And you've always been able to get Snoop on an iPod.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

KVM is also nice because you can continue using that machine as a regular desktop as well, if you need to do so. (Can't do that with VMware, Hyper-V or XenServer).

No one expects to use their Type 1 hypervisor as a desktop.

I have VMs on my local desktop with Hyper-V. Not production but they are good for a lab.

Is it your expectation to use XenServer as a desktop?

That's impossible, it doesn't offer that feature. Hence your confusion. You are thinking of something totally different.

@DustinB3403 said in Out of Band Management - does it mean no keyboard at all:

@dafyre said in Out of Band Management - does it mean no keyboard at all:

I have remote access to 30 servers. I also have physical access to those same 30 servers when crap really hits the fan. The oldest of those servers is ~6 - 8 years, and the newest is just a year or two old.

All of them have USB ports, and they are enabled. (our KVMs are USB only).

That has been how all of the systems I've worked on as well, they have USB for those "Oh $#i+" moments.

OOB does the same thing, and many enterprise boxes don't even have KVM options but serial ports, instead.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

I'm using racism in the only valid way, meaning race. You can't just make up a new definition. That's totally a different thing.

Racism as a sole word would be to hate a specific ethnicity. But it has evolved to include hating any group or culture.

No, it hasn't. You are simply confused.

That's why we switched to running it on Ubuntu with Snaps. Runs great.

@tonyshowoff said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Or in other words "Nobody actually speaks this way, I think they should" and since that time most people still say "less" just as they did then.

Actually, most people you'd want to talk to speak this way. All language rules, in all languages, are made up by someone and then become accepted convention. But in English, correctly using less vs fewer is common and is one of the more obvious dividers between those that know how to speak and those that do not.

And it is not arbitrary.

Fewer people means a small number in head count.

Less people means a small volume, like in weight or displacement.

They aren't interchangeable unless you don't want the ability to communicate clear meaning.

@Dashrender said in call work flow:

@scottalanmiller said in call work flow:

@DustinB3403 said in call work flow:

@Dashrender said in call work flow:

@scottalanmiller said in call work flow:

@Dashrender said in call work flow:

@DustinB3403 said in call work flow:

If I recall correctly, you said your operator will run around the building physically looking for someone, is that correct?

Not typically, but yeah, if they can't find someone by calling around first, then they will get up and try to locate someone.

And the caller is just.... abandoned for a while?

I suppose that's one way to look at it.. but that's pretty rare, and would only be in an emergent, yet not needing 911, type of case.

But even in an emergent situation, leaving that caller on the phone, could cause more harm.

Getting the details of the call are the critical part, as those can be passed directly to a doctor who can investigate from there.

Playing the waiting game is just delaying that information from being received.

I can see this making sense, have them wait for a doctor. I'm just wondering how they handle making sure that the next emergency has a good workflow if the phones shut down from one. Maybe someone else jumps in the hot seat?

the operator isn't the one holding the call if they need to talk to a doctor. The call is transferred to a medical staffer first.. that person then holds the call for the doc.

So they are talking to the staffer while someone else runs around trying to get the right doctor?

Golden Girls

@Dashrender said in Best Software to backup to NAS automatically with versions/purging support?:

@JaredBusch said in Best Software to backup to NAS automatically with versions/purging support?:

Meanwhile, in reality....

Exactly - Scott - it's fine to say don't store it there, but you didn't offer any solution as to where they should store it? and how they should back that up.

Seriously? We are all IT pros here. On a server, obviously.

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@Dashrender said in Ripping the bandaid off of the Sunk Cost Fallacy Issue:

@scottalanmiller said in Ripping the bandaid off of the Sunk Cost Fallacy Issue:

This is where "under the hood" transparency can be a bad thing.

I wasn't in the meeting, nor did I ever see the billing statement, so I'm not sure how much transparency there was in this billing situation.

I believe that the client mostly refused to pay for it because it should cost 10x as much to install a printer as it does to buy it.
Now of course we all know that installation can sometimes be more expensive than the purchase itself, but I think must of us also agree that's not generally the case for a printer.

Lots of things cost 10x to install what they cost to buy. A printer is easily $50 and installation if there is any complexity is easily $500. How did they determine how much installation should cost?

Vegetarian bratwurst being made. Yum.

@Dashrender said in SpiceWorld London Canceled:

Yeah at 6 months, I'm sure many had rooms and flight setup..

The vendors might demand a lower rate on SW Austin to help cover losses.

I didn't even think about that. Not many would have invested yet, but someone might have. London is NOT a "travel to" event like Austin. It's nearly 90% come on the tube from somewhere else in London. It doesn't even draw many from around the UK.

@hillel369 said in Invoice Software - Office 365 Or Purchase Software Suite?:

@Minion-Queen Thanks, how do I go about getting a vendor tag?

You have been added to the group.

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

How you can't come to grasp with that bit of information and just stop already, and accept that you're wrong is mind boggling.

You've never come up with something I was even remotely wrong about. The video showed it taking a long time, that didn't tell me it was fast, so why show it being slow?

And I just kept asking what you were trying to show, and you never answered. You actually got so lost that you thought I didn't know how UAC worked and confused that with wondering why you bothered to show a blank screen.