Saw that the Witcher series was on sale on GOG over the weekend. Since I've never played the games, but keep reading rave reviews about them, I picked up the enhanced / GOTY edition of the 3 main games. I'm just getting into the first game, but so far, I like it.

@JasGot said in Email Signature management:

I use CodeTwo for many things.

I just headed over there to get On-Prem to Office365 migration licenses and saw they have a centrally managed sigs tool for O365.

Have a look, I hope it helps guide you......

https://www.codetwo.com/email-signatures/

This is what our parent company decided on for our O365 tenant. It makes it quite easy to have a consistent signature for everyone on the tenant, as long as you designate them as a sender in the CodeTwo management app.

A couple of minor "issues" with it that I have found so far:

• To manage signatures, you need to install a ClickOnce app - there doesn't appear to be a web-based signature management portal
• Once a user is designated as a sender, CodeTwo will automatically assign them a license the first time they send a message. If you later remove that user from your O365 tenant, or remove their Exchange license, the CodeTwo license remains assigned. You need to periodically use the "Reset license count" button in the CodeTwo admin settings panel to free up licenses and have CodeTwo automatically start assigning them to users again. There is no way to remove just a single license assignment.
• If all of your CodeTwo licenses are already assigned to users, any additional users will not have a signature added to their messages, with no notification to the user. For example, you have 50 CodeTwo licenses, but have designated 52 users as senders in the management app. The first 50 users who send messages will be assigned a CodeTwo license, and the remaining 2 will simply not have signatures added. I don't know if a notification is sent to the account / subscription administrator, as our parent company's MSP handles that part.

Despite the above, I would hate to go back to manual email signature management. CodeTwo makes it nice and easy to keep things consistent, saving everyone time.

@scottalanmiller I remember being enthralled by the original when I got a Dreamcast. I never did play Shenmue II, so maybe now is a good time to grab all 3 of them on Steam.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On bold with Spectrum VOIP. Called in, been on hold for 11 minutes so far, no humans at all. WTF. Must be some serious issues there. Having to call them for a customer that's gone months without working phones, and they can't port out because Spectrum keeps refusing the port request.

I was dreading this same situation happening to us recently. We switched from Spectrum Business Voice to Mitel MiCloud Connect and needed to port some, but not all, of our numbers. I submitted the request to Mitel and they submitted to Spectrum when we were ready to go live. The port was scheduled for a Tuesday morning, and I got a bunch of emails shortly after the scheduled time that it was completed successfully. I was really surprised at how quickly and smoothly it went, especially with not having to call them.

Spectrium Business Voice is part of Spectrum, not related to Spectrum VOIP. Spectrum VOIP is a little local Plano, Texas VoIP vendor, no relationship to Spectrum.

My mistake - when I read Spectrum, I immediately thought of the Charter owned pile of trash that we are stuck dealing with. Based on what you've said above, this SpectrumVoIP sounds like it is just as terrible to deal with...

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

On bold with Spectrum VOIP. Called in, been on hold for 11 minutes so far, no humans at all. WTF. Must be some serious issues there. Having to call them for a customer that's gone months without working phones, and they can't port out because Spectrum keeps refusing the port request.

I was dreading this same situation happening to us recently. We switched from Spectrum Business Voice to Mitel MiCloud Connect and needed to port some, but not all, of our numbers. I submitted the request to Mitel and they submitted to Spectrum when we were ready to go live. The port was scheduled for a Tuesday morning, and I got a bunch of emails shortly after the scheduled time that it was completed successfully. I was really surprised at how quickly and smoothly it went, especially with not having to call them.

Putting the finishing touches on a new router configuration for the shiny new fiber internet connection that Spectrum finished installing and activating today. Remote workers shouldn't have anything to complain about anymore, since this connection provides 5 times the upload bandwidth that we are used to.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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There has to be a great story behind this.

LOL - I imagine the following YouTube video is the source for that:
Back Up Terry!

Great way to start out a Friday: OMSA says one disk is predicted to fail. Backups are good, so marked it offline, swapped it with the spare, now waiting for rebuild to complete.

I will also chime in and say that Udemy is great. I have been very impressed with how thorough the content for the courses I have purchased has been. Definitely worth the money if you ask me.

I also got a notification from haveibeenpwned that quite a few of our user's email addresses were affected. What a perfect way to start out a Monday!