@ajstringham My undergrad didn't have an internship until the capstone/senior year. It is telling that a year after I graduated the academic in charge of my program was fired and it was closed...

RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) had a really interesting internship program, called a co-op, which was required for all tech students starting their sophomore year. It was a 10 week long internship that the majority of students were offered a full time job after their completed their degree and during summers. For a company to participate in the co-op though they had to agree not the headhunt the student until they had graduated (at least from what an undergrad-adviser told me). As a post-grad student this option wasn't available to me.

I will say that I didn't have a challenging or rewarding academic experience until I started my Master's degree. Everything up until that point felt like busy work and just going through the paces. What did I learn in undergrad? How to teach other people what the professor wanted to hear. That was the entire take away of my college experience. I spent more time in front of students going over what the professor was trying to teach then I did actually sitting in a classroom.

If I were wiser three years ago I would have skipped the Master's program and spent that money on certifications. Now I'm stuck with ~$60k (plus interest) worth of debt that I need to pay off over the next five years instead of investing it into myself and my career. (and my community, although that is another rant entirely)

On top of that when I go to apply for jobs if they see I have some post-grad education I immediately become "over-qualified"... regardless of whether I have experience in that position or not. (My current title doesn't help either)

If I were to talk to 18 year old me I would tell him to skip the college and get an internship.

@ajstringham said:

Heard back from my contact at SW today. They are going to figure out what the next steps are.

Are those good steps or bad steps?

Whenever I use robocopy I tend to do create and move a batch of test files prior to the actual move. This helps me tweak the command to do what I actually want it to do.

As @Carnival-Boy said Robocopy is a powerful tool that should be used with caution.

@NetworkNerd said:

After attending Rick Vanover's session on Server 2012 deduplication at Spiceworld, I am excited to give it a try on my Veeam backup repository. But I need to make sure I have this straight in my head before running down that path.
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Furthermore, if you do have a deduplicated volume, what happens when you copy files on it to a volume somewhere else that is not deduplicated? The Veeam backup files on these volumes get copied to an external hard drive that goes offsite each day.

From what he has saying in the session if you copy off the deduped drive you are going to take a resource hit as it is being re-saturated (That isn't the right term but that is what I picture in my mind when the data goes through this process).

The recommendation at the breakout session, and from some dedupe vendors was to use that feature on the final resting place for these backed-up or archived files.

Although depending on the amount of data you have and the deduplication ratio the resource hit may not be that much.

@scottalanmiller Wow... that processor family is as old as I am.

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Wishful thinking... I think they are still selling Pentium Ds as well.

That's a bit different though. The Pentium D is a specific model and they sell old ones for embedded systems and specialty hardware. It's still an ancient processor and has not changed in over a decade.

The Celeron is a line that has existed since shortly after the introduction of the Pentium Pro. It is a line, not a model. Very different. The Celeron is a current processor, under current development and new models come out all of the time.

That's good to know. I though the Pentium D was a line that was being marketed to the extremely low end. That it was being marketed as a replacement chip which is still being manufactured after a decade is mind boggling.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

I didn't realize the Celeron was still around.. I thought maybe they finally gave up on it.

How did you miss that? It never went away. It is in nearly everything these days.

Wishful thinking... I think they are still selling Pentium Ds as well.

@Dashrender I was thinking something very similar to direct access would be the way to go for mobile devices. The new version isn't that hard to setup but the Windows 7/8/8.1 Enterprise license requirement seems a bit silly to me.

@Dominica I was thinking more for future reference.

@Dominica said:

@ajstringham AJ!!! REMOVE YOUR SPOILERS!!

Is there a spoiler tag in nodebb?

If Microsoft continues to merge their platforms we could see a device with multiple "desktops" for lack of a better term. One would be a personal "desktop" the other would be business. This could allow policies and enforcement to be placed on one side of the phone and not the other. If a person leaves and it is a personal device a disabling the AD account could remove that "desktop" from the phone.

@Dashrender Sports manufacturing which is a market unto itself apparently.

@Dashrender said:

@g.jacobse said:

However the software we use isn't supported in a VM environment...

What do you have that doesn't support virtualization?

There are a few vendors that I have encountered that don't support their software in a VM. Thankfully they are all remote support and to the software it doesn't really care. I think it is more along the lines of, "This isn't a tested configuration."

@Hubtech said:

Large enough - We technically have two 'business' units. Over all we have about 300 employees. As for AD playing well with others, if Small Business Server could handle the 300 users AND was still production, I'd go that route. SBS worked very well for me in the past, and I had very little issues with it.

Don't go with SBS, it really isn't necessary and if I remember correctly is being phased out.

Also I got here a bit late. Always wear pants even to a phone/skype interview. I have had a few phone interviews where I wore full business formal. Dressing for the occasion adds a sort of formality that people can hear in your voice. It can also make you sound more confident, at least from my experience. Although I've never sat at the other end of the table/phone...

@ajstringham Good luck hope you killed it.

@Dashrender I agree with that. I think it is one of our "perks" when hiring new CS or sales people. It is kind of expected at least in our industry that we provide these users with a device.

1.5 GHz Celeron isn't really a beefy processor. This would be limited to just basic office tasks... I wonder what the full use case for this would be?

@Dashrender said:

From what you other ML'ers see in the real world - which is more common, end user provides the phone, or the company? If the end user provides it, are they basically allowed to do whatever they want with it while connected to corporate resources, or is it locked down, no app installs, etc?

We provide our users with phones. The understanding being that it is a company device and should only be used for work purposes... however there are no polices (much to my chagrin) or enforcement to ensure this happens. In reality these devices are used for personal tasks as often (or more often) as they are for business tasks.

@scottalanmiller I think the biggest thing that AD integration would do is mobile device management. If we could setup and deploy mobile group policies to these devises from the same pane as normal group policies that could be a killer feature.

I know there are a number of MDM solutions out there that offer this style of management but having it integrated with your current system would be that much simpler.