Posts made by Sparkum

@wirestyle22
necessary no, strongly preferred, yes

@JaredBusch

100% and I even stated below I think we chose the wrong plan for our company.
So while we paid $4k/year we were also licensing 20-30 users with Office 2013 but again, hidden costs.

Ya, I think if we had gone 43012 = $1440 there would have been a greater chance of us keeping it.
But in the realm of eventually putting lets say 200 people on it, I feel it was an idea that would have died in our organization

@wirestyle22
Ya 100%

But to be completely blunt with you, the higher ups see the invoice plain and simple.

They don't see what we do day in and day out.

@wirestyle22

Server already existed so its a blind cost (sort of speaking) we just added another virtual, and honestly we haven't touched it since it went into production.
Other than adding a user here or there, but we would be doing the same process with O365 as we would in house for that

So I would say as of today we are definitely ahead.

@Dashrender

Honestly it just 100% came down to price,

We only had a small portion of users on O365 (20-30 if I remember) and IMO we probably chose the wrong plan for how we operate.

But the simpe math of $12.50 * 30 = $375/month (Not sure if that was the exact pricing just googled in quickly) * 12 =$4500/year

Just didnt seem worth it to us.

If we had done the $5 plan maybe, but for what we are doing in house works just fine.

@brianlittlejohn
Ya for sure there is still a gui, you can just do less in the gui in 2013 vs 2010

@Dashrender

Haha ya good point.

We actually went the opposite route at work and pulled out of O365 after about a year.

@Dashrender

Personally find 2013 a pain vs 2010 so I can only assume (having looked into it less than 3 minutes) that its less GUI and more powershell, which honestly I'm not the hugest fan of.

@Dashrender
2016 eh...hmm dont know if I'm ready to take that jump =/
But ya, gonna jump on the 2013 board atleast, I'll think about 2016

Thanks

@iroal
Ya I ended up upgrading which just honestly screwed everything up.
Had to manually go in and remove the database, so that I could uninstall, so that I could start installing 2013....gah

@Dashrender
Haha not really no, best answer I can honestly give you.... I had the ISO downloaded already.

Guess this is the kick in the butt I needed to download a new ISO

@Dashrender
Definitely not up to date, I'll start updating right now thanks.

Hey guys.

I feel like I'm missing something really stupid.

Just installed Exchange 2010 on a Server 2012r2 box (more for messing around than anything)

I've installed before, so I feel like I just missed a stupid step but cant seem to find my mistake.

After fresh install I essentially cant expand to see any of my options, anyone know which direction to point me in minus re-doing it from step 1

Thanks

Sad...

I tried it out the other day, I thought it was lame to look at a photo (on the phone app) it had to download the photo.

@dafyre
How are you doing plex?

VPN to your storage?
Or just small online storage?

@Dashrender

I've hosted my personal mail there for... oh I dunno over 10 months now

Alot of 8 and 9pm drops here.

@Dashrender
Nothing really

rDNS is still failing but the relay is working perfectly.

Simply whitelisted it on the mail server to be safe (but wasnt needed) and mail is flowing perfectly.

I think my random setting changes fixed it and I was simply focusing on the reverse DNS failure

Hey.

Sorry for the delay, Tis the Season eh.

So ya, rDNS didnt matter on the relay, its working perfectly right now.

Thanks all for the tips and tricks,

Now onto my next homelab adventure!