but what i'm saying is does the free veeam offer incremental backups, can i schedule them? or will i have to regularly interact with it to keep things current?

back on topic, and bringing this back from the dead. Let's say i was able to go ahead and just snag ESX Essentials, 3 years of upgrades and support for 3 machines with 2 processors each is only $666 (bad omen?). If i went with essentials, what could i use to do a snap of the original VMs, and then just incremental to my DR server from then on out? does veeam free allow this?

I do it all the time. this forum seems to derail threads pretty quickly. the dude two above me is a pro at it.

HP Pro Book 4545s is the culprit. Battery would not charge, ordered new battery. with new battery, I get the plugged in, not charging message. I've updated bios, deleted the ACHI devices under device manager, made sure all drivers were up to date...still no go.

here's the weird part, when the battery is plugged in (new or old) the fan never kicks off, and the cpu consumption goes to 100. anybody experienced this before?

I quit jobless when I decided to go into business for myself. Spent 3 or so months with no to very little incoming doll hairs.

he get this fixed up j?

hrm, maybe i need to look into that scott..

Since you're stuck with 08, i'd use XenServer. it's all open source now, and purdy nice. I dont have much experience with it but 2 of my home servers are running it. purdy neat. way more robust than the free version of esxi.

yep...outlook here too.

@Carnival-Boy see I'm in the opposite boat. I need a nerd. I would much rather run the business, snag clients, Bill, collect, etc. but unless someone wants to work for free, gotta hold off.

@scottalanmiller this is not, nor has it ever (for me) been the case. I've had two clients who ended up being super slow to pay. Both were restaurant groups and after the first project went slowly, I halted work until payment was received. They payed on time from then on out.

And I think most collection agencies cost 15-20% around here.

and have an 8 month old whatever. I'd be bored if I had a normal job

OMG, it's super hard. I was at the end of the diving board, digging through resume's meeting with folks, and lost a key client to a big box MSP round here, had to climb back down the ladder, eat a piece of humble pie, and figure out how to grow...

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Making the leap from one man MSP to a functional multi-person company is not an organic one. Only in the rarest cases can you just go from working alone to having a team. The cost of bringing on that first employee has to come from somewhere and unless you can bring on new clients that pay for the new staff at the exact same time as the new staff you will have major financial overhead to carry.

I know someone in that boat.

Don't you be talkin bout me

only $250-300 for me to buffalo from NOLA.

i like bombay saphire for my cheap gin. i love gin drinks though. mmmmhmmm

when you say add metadata to files, what are you talkign about?

So when moving from a current folder file structure to share point, how should one behave?

Document management would be job one.