I dunno, a still find a lot of the pre-internet stuff quite shocking, even though I was there at the time. One of my best mates as a kid didn't have a phone in their house. So if I wanted to see him, I'd have to walk a mile to his house and knock on his door. Only to find he was out, and I'd have to walk home and try again later. Even though this was a part of my childhood, it still seems weird when I think back on it.

Or in my first job, if I had a problem with Windows, I'd have to phone Microsoft, wait on hold for twenty minutes, then describe the problem to them and they'd give me the answer (or not!).

Even sitting at a desk and feeding in 150 floppy disks in order to install Microsoft Office now seems totally weird.

On the other hand, I'm still supporting dBase III applications, which is equally weird.

@Gabi said:

Not sure about the 6 users on a single credit card though 😉

I like that because I can begin to break things up by AppleID, but I am concerned about the credit card requirement. The down side of this process is that it requires a credit card at all. I currently do not have any credit cards tied to any of the iTunes accounts. They are all funded as needed with prepaid cards purchased as needed. I have this set up on purpose. I want no vector of attack that can substantially affect my credit card like that.

Right now there are 6 active iOS devices in the family. But because I do not want to buy apps multiple times, all app have been purchased under 1 of 2 Apple IDs. The first is a US based ID and the other is for the Japanese iTunes store.

In the future, I would love to not be required to share out the password to everyone. This will be much better. Each user can have their own password for their own iTunes account.

@alexntg said:

Merkins

Hahaha! Now I know 😄

@alexntg said:

Mmm, steak fries! Feel free to sync those over to my house.

How many files are being synced?

She has 3k or so files. no where close to the 20k limit. Another user does have more than 20k. I taught him how to create zip archives.

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Can't just revert back a DC.

In that case, it'd be a simple matter of tossing the old DC and spinning up a new one. More of an annoyance than anything else.

Yes. Mostly stateless. Would be scary if you put all DCs on azure though. Or any live/live system like this where an environmental change might lock out the entire environment.

I have my entire environment on AWS, spread across two geographic regions with a site-to-site VPN. Upping it a level would be putting one part on AWS and the other on Azure, with a site-to-site VPN between the two.

Yes. Having one node in Rackspace would have protected against this.

@NetworkNerd said:

@alexntg said:

On to opinion - Is your current setup meeting RPO and RTO?

Yes, it is.

In that case, anything else would be fluff. It would be important to weigh the added complexity with potential gains.

@J1MM3RT said:

I'll stick with mine.
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Just spat our my drink !

Love it

If you can you might consider just doing a direct migration from the MSP Exchange to Office 365 if that is your end goal by using a service like MigrationWiz that will be the intermediary and allow you to transfer server to cloud in one step.

http://www.bittitan.com/migrationwiz

Just a another thought

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@Carnival-Boy said:

I hoped this would be an interesting thread on Google Apps, but it turns out to be another Spiceworks slag-fest 😞

For me, there's an open source feel about Google Apps, with all the third-party scripts available as well as a pretty powerful API that let's you write your own applications. I've spent some time on this trying to get our ERP application to update jobs on Google Maps Coordinate, with limited success. There's a good site here https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground/ where you can see what API features are available with all of Google's products. I find it all a bit of a mess and the documentation is pretty limited. There's an assumption that you have a high degree of competency already when developing Google apps, which I don't have as I'm not a web developer and have no prior experience of OAuth. I think I'm in far too deep trying to develop Google Maps Coordinate, but if you're a professional developer I imagine Google app development is a lot of fun.

Does O365 have similar?

Office 365 uses ADFS, which has an SDK available for it, if you want applications with true SSO. Otherwise, the clients are your typical Outlook, Lync, Excel, etc, so most of the addons would be targeted towards them. SharePoint Designer's available for SharePoint. Since Office 365 includes PowerShell, it can be used as a tie-in for third-party administrative solutions.

@scottalanmiller said:

NTG started using network UPS in 2000. APC SmartUPS supported that even way back then.

I've asked for an OK for funds to purchase a model that can support up to 1800 watts, something like a desktop model that can attach to the network, and allow for Solaris systems to detect they are on battery and shutdown without my interaction. Tripplite is getting back with me, hopefully it's not overly expensive.

@Joyfano said:

Sad but this is really happening in our Government. I hope they will realize one day. 😞

Very sad.

@Mike-Ralston said:

What would you recommend for an employee that's doing Level 1 and Level 2 tech work?

Really depends, if everything is old style apps an Atom would actually work fine. If all web apps, you need slightly more power as JavaScript in the browser is not the fastest, most responsive thing. RDP uses extremely few resources on the client end. Some VPNs need a little more oomph.

Yes. KeePass is super handy. And blind copy to clipboard too. I love that.

Now that standing desks are common, I've noticed stand up meetings not being so short anymore.

Sure we do. NTG has 2 datacenter locations, with DCs in each. IT-ADMIN only has 1 datacenter location, so putting a DC at the remote site would be a good idea. If he/she had another datacenter location, it would be less of a concern.

he not she, hhhh
thanks for your suggestion, i know that the best idea is to have an additional DC in the remote location, i will try another machine and promote it in the branch office, i will not give up, because i doubt the previous ADC has something wrong in its system, if it doesn't work i will try RODC

I'll definitely post an update once we had a chance to do some reports so I can comment what their table and record structure is like. We'll be doing them with Microsoft SSRS, but concept would be the same as Jasper.

Once they add a way to view unread messages that will be close enough for me to use OWA.