If you ever need high quality cables that just work right every time:

http://www.bluejeanscable.co.uk/ (american .com site seems to be down, IDK why)

If you need bulk or cheap cable that usually works alright:

http://www.linhawstore.com/

@NHCSAdmin said:

Yeah the alerting and updates is really amazing on here! Looking forward to really exploring and learning from here! @scottalanmiller thanks for the recommendation to join here!

You bet, and thanks for signing up. Always great to have new people joining us.

@hobbit666 said:

We do have all our users being Sync'd to Office365 at the moment with the sync tool, would that work?

Azure AD is what Office 365 uses behind the scenes. O365 hosted products are all on Azure.

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Microsoft Service Center includes this functionality right from Microsoft.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff460960.aspx

So that requires System Center - not exactly a SMB product.

I think you will find LANDesk to be similar in price.

@Dashrender said:

Agreed - that means it's about as expensive as you can get. Not just upgrading one piece of equipment (the firewall) instead you have to upgrade every Windows device that will use it.

And you are stuck with Windows, you need it everywhere. Those Macs, Linux machines, NAS devices and more are all cut off. You lose a lot of options.

@wrx7m said:

So Chrome allows you to join and save the default application to open the session. Firefox still asks for the exe every time, save run, etc. I guess I will be using Chrome for screenconnect. Thanks for the help, Jared.

As, I showed above, I did it in FireFox also.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

@scottalanmiller said:

And, one that SMBs never seem to see but I've seen a lot in the enterprise, is a failing memory chip can cause crazy stuff to happen.

Man, trouble shooting that has to be a huge pain!

Thankfully ECC memory tends to catch it. Have it happen without ECC memory and you are in deep doo doo. It can cause ANYTHING to happen. Random crashes and file corruption are most common, but the scary things are time leaps, miscalculations, and things like that.

Is there a log when ECC does it's job?

Yes, in the ILO on a Proliant.

That's very interesting as this is a ProLiant by chance. Good to know. I'm going to run a lot of tests tomorrow. It's a very odd issue. Too much to do and not enough time to do it 🙂

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

I think it still runs Linux, so yo could probably do most of that. However that kind of defeats the purpose of being centrally managed.

VyOS, it is extremely capable. We've been on VyOS or its parent Vyatta for a very, very long time.

Ya EdgeMax is, does the USG run VyOS?

Yes, they all do the same stuff under the hood.

Ok, I didn't realize that. But like I said, I think needing to dig into the cli on the USG kind of defeats the purpose of having everything centrally managed by the controller.

I thought I mentioned it's not about fully managing, it's more about the reports/graphs.

Yes it's a bit more expensive...

Ah I missed that.

@PSX_Defector said:

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2174282/lan-wan/fibre-channel-will-come-with-32-gigabit--128-gigabit-speeds-in-2016.html

I was on 96Gb/s two years ago 🙂

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

I've never understood how viruii got around AV products on machines running them. It's my understanding this is somehow possible because of other unpatched flaws in the OS, even though the AV knows about the virus, the virus can still get in through the OS flaw, then using that flaw disable the AV, and pwn the machine.

Do I understand that incorrectly?

It's normally through another piece of software than the OS today actually. Microsoft finally got most of the holes in their swiss cheese plugged. Ironically, the programming code that many AV use also creates a hole for malware to enter through. Wish I had a few minutes to find those articles that hit recently.

yeah I read those too - darn AV companies!

@Kelly said:

You're not alone. You have to hack the functionality in, but it can be done: http://blog.danskingdom.com/powershell-ise-multiline-comment-and-uncomment-done-right-and-other-ise-gui-must-haves/.

Hell's yeah!

Works wonderfully.

OK solved this.

Ran a chkdsk in read-only and poof the problem was gone.

odd - it indicated there were no problems, but after I ran it in read-only it worked fine.

I'm confused - You're using folder redirection, so the local copy of the data is only there for speed or network connectivity loss. So there should be nearly zero data loss if you delete the profile after the user logs out.

I'm not sure if there is a reg key on Windows Workstation OS, but there definitely is on Server OS for Remote Desktop Services.

This was something I've seen often turned on to keep the local storage needs of the RDS server from ballooning out of control from left over profiles.

User logs into RDS, downloads profile, user logs out - copy is pushed to the server and local directory is deleted.

Pretty standard practice.

I'd be surprised if this wasn't available on say Windows 7, etc.

My image above is pulled from OWA - which allows me to save directly to my ODfB while never touching or using my machine in any real way to make the transfer happen.

@alex.olynyk said:

@scottalanmiller How to forward 8080 to 80 on the SW? In Firewall-Access Rules?

yes

@Dashrender Yes, then provide proof of windows OEM licenses (5 invoices from dell is all they required) They wanted a count of all devices (phones, tablets, MFPs, laptops, pcs) Then they asked what software I had installed and compared what I had to what they showed. They were missing about 6 open-business agreements I had so I had to find proof of purchase on those.

Woot!

Just reporting back to say that I successfully reinstalled everything to the SSD over the weekend. Pulled the old drive on Monday, and everything has been working well with the upgraded drive. 👍

@Dashrender What's weird though is I've gotten them to work here and there despite using msiexec. BUT then I changed some things around (added spaces....spaces make life hell but I wanted to see if I had to use " " around the path or not...utter failure, upon changing things back....I broke the installs)

But yeah, I'm happy 🙂
Now I just need to add what I've figured out to the other programs, which a few auto-activate lol, testing will have to be live.
Ugh then I have to make more deployments for our Autodesk products, which actually isn't that bad..