I have three servers, though two would be fine. I don't have what I understand as a "reliable failover system" or anything close to it, but if one server is down I am in a position to provide a degraded or limited service using the other server(s) which is generally enough to keep users happy and the business ticking over. It's in no way automated or anything like high availability, but it gives me options and in a crisis I like to have as many options as I can. The cost isn't anywhere near double, since you're not doubling up on disks or memory or CPU by spreading the load across two boxes.

@technobabble said:

@thanksaj onboard

Ok, get some screenshots when you can. That'll help us.

Sorry, I'm only using SCCM 2012 R2 but not SCSM

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

Ok, your adapter is still basically USB to HDMI, so a USB graphics adapter.

No, the USB is for power. It is a VGA to HDMI adapter. There is nothing else to do with VGA except send the video signal.

Sounds like an Xorg issue then.

Ok then, waiting for HDMI cable.

Wow.. must be nice to work somewhere someone want's to spend money!

You could do this with wmic as well, but net use is easier.

Very cool, thanks.

Interesting idea, at least.

Definitely sounds like a not fun area.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

You see, there are people like my best friend Carl, who calls EVERYONE sir or madam. But if you ever spoke to him, even though he'd say it, it's so casual and cool, you wouldn't be put off at all. He's the only one I've ever seen who can pull that stunt.

Yes, HOW it is done does make a difference. And when people from outside of English speaking countries do it, you know that it is just a formality that they are emulating, not one done in a specific way.

Yup. Tone, pitch, timbre of the voice, all of it factor in.

@scottalanmiller said:

I see that you know the Parent Trap.

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I liked the Lindsay Lohan version, but the original was truly the classic.

@Dashrender
Not a real problem - just unexpected I suppose. I just expected to be able to disconnect from a mailbox like you can on Exchange (local). It's not a bad issue per say.. Right now I am in most if not all the shared boxes as a safe guard while I'm still configuring and setting things up.

@dengelhardt that's a good point that people often miss - there are cases where using VLANs unnecessarily can cause traffic to have to "loop" through a router to return to the same device. In the case of VoIP phones acting as small switches at the desk it's the switch inside the phone doing it.

I had to deal with a network just a few weeks ago that had five routers and three switches, one of which was still on FastEthernet (10/100.)
They managed to make nearly all traffic have to pass through the slow switch for nearly everything. And some things looped through routers that were attached on both ends to the same VLAN!! It was insane.

One thing I got ahead of myself on was my mail.(domain) A Record.

I deleted it at the same time i changed the MX. While the MX record is the important one, the A Record pointed the mail.domain so they could get to the old email from outlook.

Pointed it back so they can (should be able to) get the last message in the old pop setup... includes a link to the new portal.

Things have gone okay thus far.

@scottalanmiller well I just tried to set this up and failed, but I did not read any instructions, just clicked through menus. I will break our the manual this afternoon and try agaiN.

Wow, that's good to know. Now something that you would guess would happen at all. Thanks for sharing.

@thanksaj said:

@Dashrender said:

Is one of those a VM? the hypervisor could be filtering stuff

The VM is where I'm trying to access my main physical workstation from. I doubt ESXi is filtering anything.

I don't have any filtering setup that I know of at least.