@Dashrender said:

I contacted our mopier vendor (Konica). They showed me how I can put in usernames and passwords and assign ports and require SSL/TLS for SMTP - so my device should be able to send to O365 too.

Awesome.

I just wish I could remember why I didn't like them - I clearly do remember thinking to myself, OMG really - you're selling that? There's no security in that model at all.

The biggest thing I would look at - can Citrix look at your stuff if they want to? If you're in a HIPAA setup, you want to make sure you control the encryption keys so they can't look, even if they wanted to.

LOL.. My wife got two in the same day. Once she told them her husband was an IT person they hung up on her.

We tried refurb cartridges several years ago and it was terrible. Probably 25% failure rate, and several toner explosions. I hate printer troubleshooting anyway, so it isn't worth the pain to me.

And they have global tie up with major providers like Microsoft, Adobe etc

Firefox for almost everything.
Chrome for websites that crash sometimes in Firefox.
IE for some internal things (CCTV etc) that won't work in anything else.

I still find Chrome a bit ugly compared to Firefox, but I think it's getting better. Or maybe my eyes are 🙂

I'm a big fan of RDS vis-a-vis XenApp.

@Dashrender said:

Uh.. OK... You can apply the GP to the level about the 'list'. If you're OK with them all being told to install at the same time. That would cut down on the number of GPOs you have to manage.

I staggered the GPOs between midnight and 5am. That was part of the reason I created different deployment groups.

@IRJ said:

That was it. Thanks bill

Hey your'e welcome, glad I could help.

You can ask but that is a long way to go for a free lunch

@PSX_Defector said:

A little early for scotch. It's still well before noon, and that would be a sin.

Beer is beer, it's good and good for you. It has all your necessary vitamin A's and B's, where when you drink scotch all you get is vitamin A and S. Sometime P.

1pm here

@Bill-Kindle said:

@garak0410 said:

They also recommend the Sylink.xml...played around with that before leaving yesterday...no success yet.

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH106288

Sylink. that's it. There's a method where you can update that file and have it point to the new host. I couldn't remember what it was called.

This is pretty much complete. Just need to transfer my license over and then this is done. 🙂 Thanks for all of the tips.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Katie said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Every day Chromebooks get closer and closer to being really useful.

I'm visualizing a differential equation where Chromebooks is expressed as a lim f(x), where x approaches ∞.
Will perpetually approach, but never quite reach it entirely.

Math nerds 🙂

Actually, not even - I had 4 semesters of calculus in college, but I don't consider myself a math nerd as such.

It is super quiet. You can barely hear it over the normal office background noise. I mean you can of course hear it if you stop and listen, but it is not intruding on the office noise level at all.

And yes the unit is cool enough. It moves a lot of air. That is why I put the plates in the front to force the air over the servers and not empty space., just to be safe though. I have to change the filters bi-monthly.

@Dashrender said:

Why would the offline snapshot be different than an online?

Snapshots don't make open files be closed. Databases keep their files open and snapshots of any system like this are inconsistent, potentially, and unsafe. Only a database aware snapshot is useful for databases. And basically none are.

This is a higher level issue that is far worse when you use SAN level snapshots. They lack visibility not only to open files but to the quiescence state of the entire file system too.

@scottalanmiller said:

This is good timing as we are about to spin up our first Southeast Asia workstation. Will be interesting to see it on the network.

Having Pertino rolled out at a client, I will be interested to see if they are even making use of it.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

CacheCade is a cache, it decides what stays there in the same way that the RAID cache has always decided that and in the same way that the OS decides what to cache.

Awww.. Thanks for that! CacheCade is Dell, what does HP have?

Up to 4GB on-controller Flash-Backed Write Cache (FBWC) - unless I'm doing some extremely large data moves, it feels like I'm writing to flash, even under typical VM workloads.

And... Why are you stuck with a BB?

I agree with PSX. Very often you don't want full backups, just of the bits that matter.

So weird. Hope you get some help on figuring this out.