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Sickening posted:How could you type so many words and still manage to make it a generic msp sales pitch? It’s not just a sales pitch. It’s real. IT for a 100 users, 1000 users or 100000 users is both the same and different. MSPs, Enterprise or Government. It’s still a bunch of computers. Go look at the case studies. Hell, didn’t a tech from spirt airlines tell us everything was in Azure a few months ago? Anyhow, I’ve made my argument. That’s where I’m directing my career and yours it is up to you. Gucci Loafers fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Sep 14, 2019 |
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Tab8715 posted:It’s not just a sales pitch. It’s real. IT for a 100 users, 1000 users or 100000 users is both the same and different. MSPs, Enterprise or Government. It’s still a bunch of computers. How incredibly insightful. You have won me over!
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Sep 14, 2019 02:51
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But we’re making the impossible possible and it might save money at some point!
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Sep 14, 2019 04:41
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Tell me all about your preferences for solving problems the cheap way instead of the right way
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Sep 14, 2019 05:39
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It's gonna be fun when a recession hits and all the as-a-service providers hike the prices to keep the shareholders happy, and there's no way to get out
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Sep 14, 2019 07:31
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orange sky posted:It's gonna be fun when a recession hits and all the as-a-service providers hike the prices to keep the shareholders happy, and there's no way to get out What makes you think that’s any different when you renew software licenses for On-Premise software?
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Sep 14, 2019 18:09
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Tab8715 posted:What makes you think that’s any different when you renew software licenses for On-Premise software? Windows and office licenses were friendly to recession, even if that wasn't Microsoft intention. They (were) licensed enough to weather a boom\bust cycle. Next recession is gonna be a extreme bloodbath. What if we setup a email server for less important employees?
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Sep 14, 2019 19:04
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Tab8715 posted:What makes you think that’s any different when you renew software licenses for On-Premise software? The cloud shuts off. On prem stays online but is unlicensed. Huge difference.
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Sep 14, 2019 19:20
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Sickening posted:The cloud shuts off. On prem stays online but is unlicensed. Huge difference. It's not every day that I reveal that I have no data redundancy plan, but when I do...
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Sep 15, 2019 17:22
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I for one also gently caress around with severe licensing violations during lean times Nothing screams "fiscal responsibility" like needlessly incurring a massive financial liability
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Sep 15, 2019 17:26
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If your business can't afford $8 licenses for E1 increasing 100% to $16 per month, you should have been circulating your resume already A "business" that can't handle this should be using free Gmail accounts, using free Google productivity apps, etc. Not spending five figures on email DAGs and even more on the IT staff to manage them You're invoking the hypothetical existence of business that can afford people like you not not subscription services. At best, I'll accuse you of looking for a very niche situation to justify your thoughts about austerity and licensing. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Sep 15, 2019 |
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Sep 15, 2019 17:28
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Potato Salad posted:I for one also gently caress around with severe licensing violations during lean times I think the company no longer being able to do business is a bigger liability.
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Sep 15, 2019 17:32
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Potato Salad posted:If your business can't afford $8 licenses for E1 increasing 100% to $16 per month, you should have been circulating your resume already Holy over simplification batman
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Sickening posted:I think the company no longer being able to do business is a bigger liability. They already need to be looking at free options. Or this "business" is a figment of your motivated imagination orange sky posted:Holy over simplification batman yeah it's a Sunday morning and I'm already over it; I'm not going to draft up some hypothetical operations budget for a hypothetical corner pretzel baker or questionably-legal cold call marketing center in the name of rigor on the internet I don't work for people with awful 1980s MBAs, you should try to avoid it too imho 
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Sep 15, 2019 17:34
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And most customers that purchase SaaS get licensing in years not in monthly payments. And I don’t see how this is sufficient argument against cloud computing. Even back the ‘0& recession I’m sure plenty of colos didn’t unplug their customers servers. Personally, I’d give them a credit but charge interest on top. Recessions don’t last forever.
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Sep 15, 2019 17:50
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Potato Salad posted:They already need to be looking at free options.  Thanks for making my Sunday Morning enjoyable.
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Sep 15, 2019 17:52
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orange sky posted:Holy over simplification batman Incredibly so. The naivety is laughable.
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Sep 15, 2019 17:56
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GreenNight posted:Just need that RS232 to Azure adapter and we'd be good to go! New subject line imo
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Sep 16, 2019 16:46
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The Fool posted:You have a pause in your task sequence somewhere. That is causing the shortcut to be created. The act of rebooting or running the shortcut resumes the task sequence. Isn't that shortcut the mechanism by which the task sequence resumes after any planned reboot? I'm talking about a shortcut in Startup, not the "Resume Task Sequence" shortcut that gets put on the desktop if you have a pause step in the sequence. In any case, the culprit appears to have been another item I was placing in the startup folder, a script which checked certain Explorer preferences and then restarted Explorer if any changes were made. Since it didn't restart Explorer on subsequent reboots, the task sequence was able to continue after that one reboot. That also explains why nothing about this was showing up in the MDT logs.
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Sep 16, 2019 18:05
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Literally on my o365 deployment kickoff call and Microsoft decides to push exchange support to Oct 2020.
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Sep 17, 2019 19:26
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incoherent posted:Literally on my o365 deployment kickoff call and Microsoft decides to push exchange support to Oct 2020. Waiting for this to happen with Windows Server 2008 R2 as well.
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Sep 17, 2019 19:31
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We taking bets on Windows 7 getting security updates as well?
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Sep 17, 2019 19:46
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I hope so. They did all that work to implement SHA 2 only updates for what, 4 months?
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Sep 17, 2019 19:47
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Moey posted:We taking bets on Windows 7 getting security updates as well? https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-offer-paid-windows-7-extended-security-updates/
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Sirotan posted:https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-offer-paid-windows-7-extended-security-updates/ Yeah, make the big companies pay, then release those updates for free to the masses.
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Sep 17, 2019 21:10
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We might have to chip in on that, we'll have easily 1000 Win7 machines on the network in January.
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Sep 19, 2019 02:31
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Anyone upgrade an existing 2008 cert authority to sha256 before? Just wondering if it's worth finding the offline backup and upgrading or if I should just spin up a 2019 cert in parallel and just move certificates off the old one as 2008 is EOL soon anyways. We probably have less then 20 certs on the old one. Any tips or gotchas would be appreciated.
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Sep 21, 2019 18:04
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I've tried the Azure AD-only approach with a couple of companies and there isn't really a correct answer. One of them had an internal IT team that understood that they were moving towards a more MDM approach, one user per device, an experience built around self-service etc. and it went fine. The other company said they understood all of that but then wanted people to be able to log into different PCs depending where they sat that day and have printer defaults deployed and uniformly enforced for people, and Intune isn't a GPO replacement. There's also pretty much always going to be something that wants to authenticate against a domain, and running domain controllers in Azure lets you do a lot more than using Azure AD DS - hopefully when Domain Services can go multi-region then that will go some way to leveling things up. I think we're overdue a managed RADIUS service that hangs off Azure AD as well.
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Sep 21, 2019 18:53
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mllaneza posted:We might have to chip in on that, we'll have easily 1000 Win7 machines on the network in January. Should be able to get it for free if you just subscribe to M365 E5. And, If you're really clever and the numbers line up you could cancel the E5 (or go down to E3, or just plain o365) once you've migraded the W7 machines. o365 at least entitles you to a free copy of Win10 pro.
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O365 doesn't entitle you to windows anything. M365 or Windows E3/E5
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More MDT issues: My deployment share includes drivers for a few recent models of iMac. To deploy to those machines, WinPE needs to include a storage driver for the SSD. The trouble is that when WinPE does include that driver, the Gen 1 Hyper-v VM I've been testing with tries to use it and bluescreens immediately. I tried including the driver Hyper-v normally uses in the WinPE image, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Anyone seen something like this? Is there a way to force WinPE to use certain drivers on a given machine, or am I stuck with using a separate winPE image for VMs?
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The answer is yes, you can filter drivers by almost any criteria you can think of, it just takes a bit to set up. In addition, the PE properties have a place for drivers to use in PE mode only. I can post more details when I get to work in a couple hours.
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The Fool posted:The answer is yes, you can filter drivers by almost any criteria you can think of, it just takes a bit to set up. Thanks. To be clear, the question isn't about how to limit which drivers get included in the WinPE image. I've got a separate folder for WinPE drivers, organized by make and model. I've only included drivers identified as necessary for WinPE by the manufacturers in those folders, and the selection profile pointing to those folders is set to inject only network and storage drivers into WinPE. The trouble I'm having is that if I include the storage drivers, WinPE bluescreens on my test VM. If I exclude them, I can deploy to the VM just fine, but then I can't deploy to Macs (different bluescreen from WinPE). A Dell laptop I'm also testing with works just fine either way.
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All of our client office 365 tenants have MFA enabled now, but that has made my life difficult when it comes to powershell. If I want to connect to any service, I have to log in again. So, say I want to connect to Teams, MSOL, and Exchange. That means I enter the password 3x and respond to MFA prompt 3x. From what I've seen the answer is no, but has anyone found a good way to work around this? It wouldn't be so bad but since we're an MSP and many people need access to these accounts it works the following way: Log into office 365 -> text message is sent to an external service -> service emails an O365 team -> code appears in designated MFA code channel. It works great except for when it doesn't (which is often)
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Can you use conditional access to set your office as a trusted ip?
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Sep 24, 2019 16:44
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snackcakes posted:Log into office 365 -> text message is sent to an external service -> service emails an O365 team -> code appears in designated MFA code channel. why not just use TOTP?
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Toast Museum posted:Thanks. To be clear, the question isn't about how to limit which drivers get included in the WinPE image. I've got a separate folder for WinPE drivers, organized by make and model. I've only included drivers identified as necessary for WinPE by the manufacturers in those folders, and the selection profile pointing to those folders is set to inject only network and storage drivers into WinPE. The trouble I'm having is that if I include the storage drivers, WinPE bluescreens on my test VM. If I exclude them, I can deploy to the VM just fine, but then I can't deploy to Macs (different bluescreen from WinPE). A Dell laptop I'm also testing with works just fine either way. If it's bluescreening during the PE stage and not after imaging/first restarts, you could try using a real computer or virtualbox instead of Hyper-V for your testing. Or you may just need to maintain two different PE images. You already know how to limit the drivers used by the PE image, the other method to filter drivers only applies to drivers being injected to the wim during the imaging process.
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The Fool posted:Can you use conditional access to set your office as a trusted ip? I don't think this will work because of the licensing requirement? Can't tell my clients to pay extra money because it makes life easier for me Jeoh posted:why not just use TOTP? I'm not sure how I'd make that work, care to elaborate? (I'm not being sassy, just stupid)
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Are you using a shared admin account or your own account is delegated admin access to your client? If the latter, you only need the additional license on your own account. If the former, stop using shared accounts they're bad. If neither, do the latter.
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The Fool posted:Are you using a shared admin account or your own account is delegated admin access to your client? ...the former. I don't think I can convince my company to make individual admin accounts for every technical member of my company for each of our many clients We are delegated admin as well with our own accounts but there's only so much you can do with that
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