@thecreativeone91 said:

@g.jacobse said:

can you justify having a 15foot network cable, router/VPN as well?

Why would you need any of that. Make sure your computer's firewall is on. And use known sites with HTTPS and you'd be fine.

I agree. It's not a realistic concern for most activities. I really don't care if people can see me browsing 9gag or whatever that is not SSL and HTTPS is a VPN already, so if a VPN is going to protect you, you already have one.

VeraCrypt is also a fork of TrueCrypt. By definition, that TC was forkable means it was open source. The owners of the code did not intend for it to be open source, but they made it public source and failed to provide ownership of the original code so it effectively entered the public domain. PD + Source Available makes it open source de facto regardless of intent. Because there is no owner, there is no one to attempt a copyright case. It is not that it is not copyrighted, it is that it is uselessly copyrighted. So the source is available and you can use it as you wish, all the factors to make it open source.

That it is anything but open is purely semantics at this point and even the semantics are questionable as to whether or not they would call it open or not. And the fact that it has been forked multiple times supports that it is fully open now.

@PSX_Defector said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Around here they are near Virginia Tech and offer very low paying jobs so some of the poor support is expected.

They famously pay way, way under market in San Antonio. Pretty much anyone good working there can move on almost instantly making for high churn and the top 50% of the company attritioning out year over year.

Guess I should be glad they didn't call me back when I was shitcanned from the big red V. They were opening up a datacenter in Grapevine and were looking for Windows support goons.

Although it's kind of nice getting poached by another provider in the industry. 🙂

They have a reputation for paying half of standard industry rates wherever they are. I don't think you'd have been interested at all.

Yeah, I saw that. That's awesome! I'm hoping that's a sign they're getting bigger clients. I talked to @CraigElliott recently and they had something like 10TB or so of network traffic in one month on the Pertino networks...pretty awesome!

@thecreativeone91 said:

We have a couple of standalone servers that aren't part of the virtual infrastructure That's iDrac's where never connected. They have a black cover over that NIC, but the NIC is still there. I can also access the iDRAC settings from the front panel, does this mean the techs forgot to plug it in or is the black cover there because we didn't pay for the iDrac on these? I don't remember if they come that way new or not. I'm thinking it may be trying to idiot proof them from people thinking it's normal nics.

If the machine did not ship with the iDrac Enterprise (a separate card), then typically that means it is iDRAC Express shared on the NIC1. The server cases are standard and have the spot for the Enterprise card, they just put the cover on it to close the hole. There is nothing behind the cover.

@Danp said:

Ran across the following the other day on this page:

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I assume this will eventually be available in the "free" version. Anyone know for sure? @KatieUnitrends

Unitrends Virtual Backup(UVB), Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) and UnitrendsFree are three different products. The offer you mention above is for paid users of UVB only. Also, as has been stated a few times in this thread, UnitrendsFree is only licensed to protect VMware & Hyper-V clients. Please let me know what questions you may have.

@creayt said:

Ok, so no way to do it other than w/ a shitty on-laptop-motherboard fake RAID. Sad/check.

Correct.

@creayt said:

specious said:

The entire point of the Mac Platform is to allow you to be more creative because hardware issues are minimized because of standardization and the removal of low end hardware. There is no cheap underperforming barely have enough specs to survive systems that I have to work around.

This is specious at best. Though the MacBook Pro has legit hardware it's the software, OS X, that glitters almost every single action you can take on the laptop w/ latency and sporadic slow. The HiDPI approach is nice, and makes half of everything very beautiful, but OS X and or the graphics drivers just cannot keep up with an expert computer user, unless they tend to interact w/ a computer slowly enough that the rampant latency doesn't frustrate them. I personally just cannot write code on a mac, I find myself almost screaming as I watch the OS flounder and try to keep up with my keystrokes and interactions, and have almost thrown a MacBook Pro out a window before because of it, not exaggerating.

Macs have crashed on me and had "hardware related issues" so, so, so much more than Windows machines that it makes me snicker when people make claims like this.

Agreed. They used to be target at creative professionals now the are consumer. I do have a work macbook air but I simply use it because it's lightweight and it was bought for someone who didn't like it. Even with as big as our accounts are apple is just about the only one who will not let us return anything.

@Lakshmana said:

How to migrate the VM of Xenserver in WAN? This can be as simple as copying the files from one place to the other. VM migrations from XS to XS is very simple. You can do Storage VMotion too. How much time the VM will be taken for the migration process? How big is the VM and how fast is the pipe? This is just a matter of calculating how long it takes a file to travel over the WAN. How to migrate the VM in WAN? Isn't this the first question reworded?

If you simply ask yourself how this would be done, you should be able to reason out why it will not work. If you have two humans and you need to transfer some items that they own from one to the other and you are supplies only with the addresses of the two people but are not told which items to transfer or even what items they have, what do you do?

You could reword your question, then, like this...

I need to copy some files from one place to another but I don't know what the files are and are not allowed to specify them. How do I perform magic?

This is pretty much where you are. You want to move things from one place to another but you don't want to say what those things are. How are you envisioning that this would work?

@Breffni-Potter said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

However aside from the setting not being applied there's no actual harm to GP conflicts.

Speaking broadly, with a badly setup GP you can get delayed logins and other strange issues.

Not from conflicting settings you won't get delayed logins. Conflicting settings will just allow one to override the other.

Delayed logins come from permissions issues, trying to do to much, bad settings or corrupt Sysvol and too much WMI filtering.

We use a lot of Cisco here, I don't care for their routers but I like their switches. The routers are going by bye because we are dropping standard internet connections and getting Ethernet (fiber) from every location in to a colo datacenter and then putting some virtual Palo Alto Router/Firewalls there.

I don't know much about MS Dynamics CRM but I know from having used Dynamics GP (keep in mind while they share part of the name they are not the same products nor related at all aside from name) a lot there isn't much information as far as training on it either written or video. You really have to learn from yourself, other people and conferences.

@scottalanmiller said:

I have it on and I think that it helps a bit.

Let's see if that will help any.

Thank you.

Does it help adding another adaptor from vbox settings and use it as bridged?

@Dashrender said:

Let's assume you didn't have access to VL versions of Office because you never bought it.. you are just now buying Office for the first time through O365 - do you now get access to a VL image and key for use on RDS?

You buy one seat to use the key. Microsoft almost never gives you the keys for the "Other rights" or downgrade rights of an application or OS.

@GregoryHall said:

This write up is what I point people to when they have these questions (*the one my MS rep from SW said is gospel)
http://www.microsoft.com/OEM/en/licensing/sblicensing/Pages/downgrade_rights.aspx#fbid=D7zcRxMWVLN

Yeah but that says nothing about this specific case in regards to VOSE rights.

@Dashrender said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Just talked to MS guys. We don't even need the VDA since they are for testing we can just use the MSDN Keys and not worry about licensing.

Assuming you already have a KMS server, you shouldn't need to do anything. The Windows 2008 R2 Server (maybe original 2008 as well) KMS key will authorize Windows 7.

Yeah the MDSN and MSVLSC are seperate. The Volume licensing is for production and the MSDN is for testing purposes only. Granted I don't think it matters too much what key is installed. We have both accounts.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@JaredBusch said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

That doesn't work when you have a lot of inbound rules as well as multiple Toll Free lines as well.

Sure it does. You just need an emergency IVR message stating there is a problem with the telephone provider and calls are being rerouted to a backup system. Then dump the calls to a few desginated emergency operators.

We have lines with a roll over agreement between to providers so we don't have to do that.

You're situation is a bit larger than most, so those agreements are definitely a good idea.

Our provider does allow us to designate a failover forward to phone number, so in the case where the SIP traffic can't register, it would auto failover.