@garak0410 said:

@MattSpeller said:

@garak0410 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

What GPU does that have?

It is a custom GPU along the lines of a Nvidia GeForce 860M. So it isn't a gamers dream, but that said, I CAN game and game well on the go. I've not loaded GeForce Experience on it since this is a custom GPU and before the last firmware update, there were many unstable issues with both the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4.

I've played ALIEN: Isolation with details maxed but but a much lower resolution. Video Rendering speeds with Adobe Premiere have been quite impressive.

Does it have dedicated vram or does it sneak around like a thief in the night, hungry for some delicious ram

It has 1GB of dedicated, GDDR5 video RAM.

That is the only reason we got them. Sales wanted Surface Pro 4's, but lacked the video to support certain services. Got Surface Books and they faired a little better. Keep in mind, $350 of the cost is going into the keyboard whereas I think the Surface Pro 4 keyboards are a bit cheaper so the price difference is something to consider. If you don't need the VRAM, the Surface book isn't a much better device in my trials. The kickstand on the Surface Pro 4 (without the keyboard attached) essentially turns the Surface Book into using the keyboard as a flexible stand. I prefer the kick stand but using either device on your lap, I prefer the Book.

@scottalanmiller said:

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@BBigford said:

@scottalanmiller said:

But that doesn't explain how the copiers POINT to the Exchange 2007 instance. How do they send the email to it in the first place? IP address?

Uses the hostname instead of IP... Some of the settings I've saw in the config:

Server FQDN: exchange-server.domain.com (older server with relay configured)
Server Port: 25
From Address: [email protected] (has a resource mailbox in Exchange, with a password to authenticate)

I can't think of any other settings off the top of my head...

Right... so what are the questions about how to do this with a Linux relay? You already have a dedicated relay. It's just swapping out the name of the OS and the cost and stability involved. Nothing "changes." You are already doing everything as if you had a Linux relay.

There's no more confusion. You answered it way up the thread already. 🙂

I just didn't know how the Linux relay tied to hosted Exchange, but you already said you can define that in the relay by entering credentials for the hosted instance.

They tie through the magic of email 🙂

No, you wouldn't really use the credentials, that's pretty silly. You just... relay. Email is WAY simpler than I think you are picturing. None of that is necessary.

ok, so you point the Linux relay at the IP issued to the O365 instance, with a transport rule setup on the O365 instance to accept the traffic from the relay?

No... still way too complex. You do nothing. I literally listed all of the steps.

Email doesn't need any of those things. It doesn't get pointed anywhere.

How would the Linux relay know how to pass on the traffic from the copier to the hosted Exchange instance then...?

How does email ever get to where it is going? It just sends the email. It looks up the server's MX record. It's how every email everywhere gets delivered.

Oh ok, so the relay relies on MX records found in DNS?

Of course, that's how all email is sent that is not internal to the server itself, which wouldn't actually be email. So to simplify... yes, that is how all email is sent.

Sorry that took so long. Thanks for explaining.

I was overthinking it. It's been a long week. I was overthinking it.

...and after people tearing me down all day about SQL and Apple Mail, I'm pretty brain dead. 😐

@dafyre said:

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

@dafyre said:

Why are there two NFS servers to start with? (Just curious)

They're only 20-24 drives each. About 50TB per server. All of the engineer's home folders are on them so one isn't enough.

At some point down the road we are going to implement a clustered storage but we just don't have the time right now because of time constraints for this project.

Gluster could be done in an hour. I have how tos posted for both NFS Home Automounting and Gluster 🙂

Ha yes anywhere else it would take no time at all. We have so much red tape to jump through it's ridiculous.

Start setting up and testing a Gluster Cluster (see what I did there?)... and maybe by the time you get it set up and tested, you'll be done playing jump rope with the red tape.

The other issue is the NFS servers we have right now are applicances (was done before I got here I've only been here less than a month). We can install certain things, but too much and we might lose "support."

We have to have these inspectors come in and approve stuff if any changes are made to this network. It's ridiculous.

In this case, it was a matter of the settings during the restore.

Under GENERAL you had to select your source and destination as normal. Destination was changed so that it was the new History file. Under FILES you updated the DB and LOG files to reflect the new DB, otherwise you would over write the originals.

This is where they borked it. They didn't mention FILES only going to OPTIONS, and there is where they mentioned updating the file names. The main discovery was that you need to uncheck LEAVE Source database in the restoring state.

When I emailed them about removing the 'borked' databases I had created the called me back. I mentioned it to the fellow and we had a short discussion on the matter where he took notes and agreed that the directions were incorrect. When I got to the part about unchecking LEAVE Source database in the restoring state he mentioned that he uncheck Take tail-log backup before restore

Hope this helps.

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@RoopanKumar said:

@scottalanmiller that will be side by side learning while facing any AD related issue or any task related i have to work on.

asking now apart from this what should i learn or what can i improve

Explore other virtualization platforms such as XenServer, KVM, etc...

i use what is now PCM. Used to be global, then comp usa, then tiger direct, now PCM...

I use https://www.wetransfer.com/ myself. I don't need to transfer huge files and when I do, I use a Dropbox link. I got a TB with them, so uploading and sharing is no biggie for me. I must say, though... transfer.sh is pretty cool.

@Jason said:

@Dashrender said:

@brianlittlejohn said:

@LAH3385 Once you get the upgrade it converts your Win7 key to a Win 10. So you have to upgrade at that point since you are no longer licensed for win7

Well - that's sorta true.

Assuming you're upgrading a Windows 7 Pro legally licensed machine, you can legally use downgrade rights to install Windows 7 again.

That's not downgrade rights.. You own both. You have an upgrade which "sits" on top of the full version. You have never needed downgrade rights to go back to a previous version from an upgrade.

That's an interesting way to look at it. Without reading the Windows 10 license I'm not sure if that's accurate or not.. but definitely makes sense. In either case, you do have the right to use Win7 Pro still, once you upgrade to Windows 10 Pro.

@PSX_Defector said:

@Brains said:

It's just bad timing and we are in the healthcare market and subject to Texas's Workers Compensation craziness, so its been a rough year or two for us.

Then you best not be using PPTP. Compliance audits will come down on you hard.

If anyone will be at Lone Star PHP in Texas this weekend, let me know. Ill be there and will buy you a beer.

I thought you were talking about Big Texas Beer Fest, which was last weekend.

I was planning on trying to use L2TP and darn for missing the Beer Fest. That's my kind of place! Well Whiskey Fest would be MORE my kinda place haha.

I also wanted to ask you about this as well:
3 Year Warranty & InControl 2 for Balance One/Balance One Core

I really doubt the cloud management would be useful for us since we only have 2 local devices (one active at a time). We will get free firmware updates AFAIK, so I don't really know why that is mentioned. Is there any reason we should get this package? 25% price increase for 2 additional years of warranty doesn't seem worth it to me.

@aaronstuder said:

We are using flowroute, and they provide CNAM Lookup at the same price as OpenCNAM - Any reason to use OpenCNA over the one my provider provides?

No reason to use one over the other.

@BRRABill said:

Macrium also retains security, BTW, so there is no difference to taking ownership as in the VHD.

I take it back. You CAN browse the backup/image in Macrium without having to take ownership. Sweet.

@Mike-Davis Both of our DC's are physical at the moment.

Our primary DC reaches out to a public time source, and everything else is supposed to sync with that DC.

No, it doesn't support this. RAID 1, you are correct, but Parity RAID 5 or 6 it does not. The OS needs to be up and running to be able to manage the parity RAID so you can't use it for the system install, only for extra data volumes.

@Joel said:

@scottalanmiller said:

You are correct, I'm afraid. Doesn't look like they offer anything else either.

Thanks Scott- hope you're well.

I am, and hope that you are as well 🙂

@Carnival-Boy said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Marketing and research are by far the primary means of getting information out, but sales plays an important role as well.

Not for me. I'm struggling to think of any product I've bought as a result of sales people. Marketing & research cover everything for me. In fact, sales people are such a turn-off for me, that I'm more likely to buy a product if they don't have any sales and I just talk to an engineer.

Well I generally agree, I am the same way here. I don't think that in the SMB it matters quite as much. We are far less likely to have a product seek us out to have a conversation, it's too costly to do. In the enterprise space, this is how it works though. Small, new vendor takes a big player out for food and gives them a presentation so that they get their name known.

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller I have tried by changing some regedit values but no use in it.
Whether any hardware issue ??

That's possible.

From what I found, if you have licenses, you can activate them then hack your registry to get the older clients to work. I haven't been able to reproduce that in my lab.

The size comes to the fact that I have metal brackets on the back of the monitors that fit the Wyse P20. If I can find something that fits that, I can just swap them out and it makes for a quicker set up and tear down of the room.

I came across this thread, and it the Remix Mini might work. http://mangolassi.it/topic/7992/remix-mini-as-a-thin-client/3

I tested connecting to the 2012 R2 server from a tablet and that works.

@Jason said:

@PSX_Defector said:

A 500 error usually means that your application pool isn't setup properly.

Got an extended error output?

Nope. Found out the guys webconfig was all messed up. I fixed it. There a lot of stuff off in how this guy was doing things.

That would do it. The config file is what controls the pool. If it's misconfigured, it's gonna throw 500 errors.

When in doubt, always turn on the whole error message:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/294807