@scottalanmiller said in I can't even:
IOP's. That's a new way to write that.
I think both have their place. The key philosophy being the moment that your job becomes easy, it's time to start looking. Some companies have pretty cool job rotation programs that keep you fresh, so linear progression seems like it might make sense. Additionally, if my overall goal was more of a management role at a company that I liked, I would put in some years for that.
On the other hand - I was at my last job for 6 years. A job I liked. I moved on a whim because I had this nagging feeling that I hit a ceiling. When I started my next job, it confirmed that feeling x 1000. Year 1 of new job was professionally more beneficial than 4 at my last job.
Regarding happiness, a job isn't like a wife. Happiness and loyalty only get you so far. It's one of the most important things, but not the only important thing.
Sorry, was on vacation.
@RamblingBiped said in SPF Records for Google Apps Mail:
@TAHIN So I should be able to get away with the same entry as what you have then? What does the addition of "a mx" add?
Adding the 'a mx' parameters indicates that only servers that match a public A record or public MX record of your domain are allowed to send. Generally, just saying MX is enough - you're telling the recipient to fail the mail unless the sending IP matches the IP address of one of your domain's MX records, effectively eliminating spoofing. We added 'A' to give us the flexibility to source email from an application or DMZ server. The include: parameter overrides these defaults, allowing Google to proxy.
80% of the reason we (and most companies) implement SPF is to protect their own organization from incoming spearphishing via domain spoofing. The fact that it isn't 100% adopted by all organizations shouldn't be a deterrent to use it.
Our database guy and our web guy built an application that converted our whole system to ICD10 since our EHR didn't do it natively. This app saved our finance folks about 1000 hours of work. Our CIO, who was always good at converting ideas to cash (very good quality for a non-profit) started selling it to other clinics who used the same system. eCW eventually caught wind and wanted to buy it. He gave them a price about as ridiculous as what they would have charged us for it... they refused haha. It was a good shoe on the other foot sort of story.
This isn't a general best practice to be used in every case. You're only susceptible to DDos attacks for domains that you're publicly authoritative for. You can use this site to determine if you have open resolvers for your domain: http://openresolver.com/.
It is true that AD requires recursive queries to work. Here's MS's note on securing DNS: Disable recursion on DNS servers that do not respond to DNS clients directly and that are not configured with forwarders. A DNS server requires recursion only if it responds to recursive queries from DNS clients or if it is configured with a forwarder. DNS servers use iterative queries to communicate with each other.
If you do have (and require) your internal DNS to be a public resolver, a solution I've seen is to:
I've very recently come into a situation where my company is able to receive a lot of free equipment (over the amount to be untaxed -10k in most states?), and I need some advice. Can someone who is experienced with large hardware acquisitions and tax laws PM me?
Thanks!! 
Happy monday!
What does "he knows nothing" mean? From my perspective, knowing nothing is what I did when I was 6. After that I always knew something about computers. On a scale from 1 to 10... 1 being "The cup holder in my computer is broken!" and 10 being entry-level job ready... how do you rank his current knowledge?
Teaching him about hypervisors would be pointless without a knowledge of system architecture. Teaching him about the OSI model would be pointless if he doesn't know what TCP/IP is. You need to gauge where he's at and go from there. Maybe have him pick up a (not too dry) A+ book. Maybe watch some videos about how TCP, IP, UDP work. Ethernet, switches, routers?
Thanks, happy to be here! And for the record, this is the most un-Googlable site on Earth, lol, unless of course you want yogurt.
Does anyone have much experience with Nasuni over several WAN links? I saw over in SW that SAM used to do some consulting for them years ago, maybe you still keep in touch?
We're in the market for a centralized cloud copy provider. We use Autodesk Vault for CAD, so this would be for the 'small stuff', GIS, Office docs, etc... We're leaning between Nasuni and Panzura. Panzura used to be the cheaper option, but with Nasuni's simple Storage as a Service payment model we can very accurately calculate our costs for both implementation and ongoing. They gave us a huge break on our VM appliances so we're really only paying per TB. ($3,750/TB/Year)
Without having any experience with Panzura, it seems wholly complicated and more messy than Nasuni and holds more convoluted costs. We've been trialing Nasuni now for several months. Can anyone speak to what Nasuni does very well and not so well when compared to Panzura?
Thanks!
Haha that's a cool idea.
Here's my state. And no it's not during a blackout, we're just one giant dark zone 
It seems like they've changed a bunch recently. I think they found a niche, I haven't found anyone that does storage as a service quite like they do. We're 25+ sites with under 15 TB of active data, so we're right on the edge of enterprise SLA requirements and SMB budgets.
I would say it's not possible. If they insist, I'd keep the email of them signing off on your concerns. Then when restoring a failed VM takes the SAN over the brink and causes your restore to also fail, you'll have something to show them.
There was a reddit article a while back about a completely legit HIPAA auditor demanding domain logons and passwords for every user in the company to prove that IT kept track of the stuff. So they went through this guy's company directory, found his boss, and talked to him. The auditor in question was 'confused' and rescinded the demand.
I'm starting to wonder if security audits are conducted like house appraisals..... "I have no idea what the rules are so I'll just do what the guy next to me did".
Our google record : v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com ~all
Soft fail aids troubleshooting when legitimate mail isn't being delivered. We're monitoring for the soft fail tag so we'll know right away if we're getting hit.
You can tailor the application to grab what you want, if all settings is too verbose. Here's one we use for basic app servers with only 10 sections.
After some great advice from you folks, we are going to be very disciplined about the fact that you don't just throw something like this into production. A lot of planning hours will go into it. (HP c7000 enclosure with a couple servers and flexconnect gear). Thanks all!
Teams and Slack both set out to solve an incredibly big problem with email: conversation-based collaboration. I really want to love it because if you run analysis on the type of email that flows between users of an organization, 70% of it is 'read once and delete' or one-liners. It's like supercharged IM. It took a while to wrap my head around the whole idea, but now I can see the overall potential, and it's staggering. But the OP comment regarding external user limitations is why we're not pursuing it. Having project collaboration for our internal users on Teams and having to import emails from external users would add too much overhead and confusion, and be a training nightmare.
Other reasons we're not using it:
We're actually fully licensed for it, wouldn't cost anything, but the use case isn't quite there until it can include everyone. We'll probably re-visit it in 12-18 months.
@scottalanmiller said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:
@Breffni-Potter said in Skip Eating Meals for Better Productivity:
I'm on a huge foodie change at the moment.
The biggest change I've made is, getting up earlier, having a substantial breakfast and I already feel way better have 3 weeks of that, more awake/energetic during the day, more productive.
I'm the opposite. Breakfast makes me tired all day. And hungry too, so much more hungry when I eat breakfast.
Breakfast kickstarts metabolism, no matter what it is, so the hunger is natural. Sugary breakfast makes me instantly tired and hungry, but fiber, protein, and carbs will carry me through lunch. Breakfast should be a good 400 calories to really count.
On mobile I'm an avid Clasher (clash of clans).
On the PC I've been killing time on Rocket League. Super simple premise that has an extremely high skill ceiling. It's matchmaking accuracy and sub-10 second queue times keep me coming back.
It's interesting that they're so verbal about it being a Macbook competitor, but I understand it because the Mac market is that giant piggy bank that PC vendors want to bust open. I see it more as being a Helix, or a HP Spectre x360, competitor. Powerful, full of ports, detachable. The discrete graphics in the base is very cool. If you have that base the battery life will shoot down to the 4 hour range.
I think MS is really hitting a niche market here. I've conducted heavy trials with 4 other hybrid machines and each one had its flaws; you have to pick your two most important features and sacrifice the rest. This one, even at its price-point, could take the cake.