Posts made by lance

We have an open office, but it is filled with only IT people. I love it, it is nice to be able to have a conversation without leaving your desk.

I have a server with about 8 TB of useable space after a RAID 10 config and I am thinking of using it as a "media" server where people put their video and photos. I am thinking of using SAMBA since we will not have to lock any of the files down and have no need for NTFS ACL. 75% of our desktop users are using Windows, does anyone see any downside of using SAMBA file sharing for this?

Long but worth the read! Thanks!

Those look awesome!

@Nic said:

I've been using the Getting Things Done system religiously for a decade. I highly recommend it!

Had to look it up and it seems like a good system.

The GTD method rests on the idea of moving planned tasks and projects out of the mind by recording them externally and then breaking them into actionable work items. This allows one to focus attention on taking action on tasks, instead of on recalling them.

I'm looking to get more organized. I only make half hearted attempts to use my outlook calendar, and use evernote for some stuff. So I was wondering what does everyone here do or use?

@Dashrender said:

Which then has me ask, do they install into non standard installation directory like Chocolatey, or do they follow the more traditional route?

That's a good question.

@Dashrender said:

Cool a MS version of Chocolatey, right?

They are actually using the Chocolatey repositories.

@Dashrender said:

Good question, now that my user is squared away maybe I can eat lunch.... sky's kinda the limit.. maybe sushi!

Sushi is always a good bet.

@lance said:

Here you go. http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx

I'm excited for it. I've been trying working on my powershell skills.

Here you go. http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2014/04/03/windows-management-framework-v5-preview.aspx

@scottalanmiller said:

Today seems to be busy too. I think that things are picking up.

I noticed the same things. I try to follow a lot of people and today I've gotten more notifications than usual.

@Bill-Kindle said:

Okay, so I stumbled upon this little gem as I am contemplating redoing my existing blogger page or creating a brand new blog over the spring / summer using WordPress:

http://www.instantwp.com/

I downloaded the installer, and thought, "Hey, I wonder if I can install this on DropBox and run it from anywhere I want to toy with WordPress from without having to install it again on every workstation?"

So I installed it to a folder on my DropBox account, and behold, it works and works well. Even updated to the latest WordPress build! And I got to thinking, "Hey, I could turn this into another How-To similar to my KeePass & DropBox tutorial I created last year for a poor man's synced password database."

I'm doing some more testing and capturing a few good quality screenshots. Will link it when I'm done.

Interesting idea.

@Bill-Kindle said:

Okay, so I stumbled upon this little gem as I am contemplating redoing my existing blogger page or creating a brand new blog over the spring / summer using WordPress:

http://www.instantwp.com/

I downloaded the installer, and thought, "Hey, I wonder if I can install this on DropBox and run it from anywhere I want to toy with WordPress from without having to install it again on every workstation?"

So I installed it to a folder on my DropBox account, and behold, it works and works well. Even updated to the latest WordPress build! And I got to thinking, "Hey, I could turn this into another How-To similar to my KeePass & DropBox tutorial I created last year for a poor man's synced password database."

I'm doing some more testing and capturing a few good quality screenshots. Will link it when I'm done.

@Bill-Kindle said:

Okay, so I stumbled upon this little gem as I am contemplating redoing my existing blogger page or creating a brand new blog over the spring / summer using WordPress:

http://www.instantwp.com/

I downloaded the installer, and thought, "Hey, I wonder if I can install this on DropBox and run it from anywhere I want to toy with WordPress from without having to install it again on every workstation?"

So I installed it to a folder on my DropBox account, and behold, it works and works well. Even updated to the latest WordPress build! And I got to thinking, "Hey, I could turn this into another How-To similar to my KeePass & DropBox tutorial I created last year for a poor man's synced password database."

I'm doing some more testing and capturing a few good quality screenshots. Will link it when I'm done.

Pizza today for lunch!

Coffee for me.

@alexntg said:

@lance said:

We have a total of about 220 current exchange users.

With en environment of that size, a cutover migration would work best. If you have Outlook Anywhere deployed, the cutover migration tool that MS provides works well. You can, however, do an O365 trial for users to get a feel for it and see if it'll be a good fit. That includes up to 25 users.

Sounds good, I will have to keep looking into this. You mentioned you have to keep a onsite Exchange server around, is there a point where we would be able to get rid of it or will we always have to have one.

@scottalanmiller said:

I replied on SW as well. I recommend heavily against going hybrid for this reason. Hybrid is not designed for a transition state. It is designed for a permanent state. Binding you internal AD to Azure is non-trivial and is a decision that you will be stuck with for a long time.

Going this route will also send costs through the roof. This isn't an "easing" or a conservative process. There is so much more work and danger in doing this that jumping directly into Office 365 could be described as "easing" towards hybrid.

If the goal is to be safe and make things easier, this does the opposite.

I had a funny feeling that this wouldn't be recommended . Thanks for you help everyone!

We have a total of about 220 current exchange users.

@alexntg said:

@Minion-Queen said:

I know that we have done hybrid setups so that the migration can happen slowly. I will ping one of my team as I have never done a hybrid migration. @alexntg can you provide some guidance here?

Certainly! If you need to have some users onsite and some hosted, you can use a hosted deployment. How many users are you looking at in total?

The idea is to start with about 15 people on the hosted exchange with office365 and then through time slowly move people over from our current exchange to the hosted.

Where I work we like to slowly ease into things, I was wondering if it is possible to keep our exchange 2010 environment up and running while having around 10 users on Office 365 hosted exchange?