Excellent topic

To add fuel to the fire (though it might have been mentioned already below)

It simplifies the transition between models and makes of laptop. I like to "generic windows-ify" all my installs so that you use all the MS stuff to manage wifi etc. Then the only transitions you need to coach users on is to new windows versions.

@BRRABill said:

@Nic

The next time I have a need for business class AV I will reach out to you.

Thanks - yeah reach out any time.

I have an old (6+) C2D Lappy with Xubuntu.
It plays Worms quite well. Not sure what else I've tried as I only really use it when I go wandering away from home for a night or more.

<inserts shameless plug for ownCloud here, lol>

@johnhooks said:

As a side question, what's the advantage to kickstart if you can clone templates. Cloning is much faster. Is it just for large deployments?

Kickstart is how big companies did it in the pre-virtualization era.

For me thought the question is how drivers from Microsoft differs from the original vendor’s drivers.

As far as I know, the driver needs to be certified at MS end to reach the MS shop, so at some point the freshest driver can be obtained from the vendor directly…

@KOOLER said:

What kind of PM you want? How to chunk physical LAN into two vLANs? It's not really StarWind thing and there's nothing private there 🙂

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/adamfazio/archive/2008/11/14/understanding-hyper-v-vlans.aspx

Then you move AS IS.

Something along those lines... 8-)

Do other machines have the issue when they try to hook up at the same location?

I'm not sure that I understand the question.

@BRRABill said:

And with a product like DropBox Busniess I can collaborate by SHARING, but not working on the document at the same time.

Right, which is a bit different.

Yeah, it's limited nearly to pointless.

@scottalanmiller said:

That's not an uncommon approach.

That is exactly why we use it. We use the Action Pack for application builders.

Going to do so now, thanks.

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

Yeah, wget and epel-release are NOT part of a true clean CentOS install. Many people just make instructions with assumptions built in.

I did not in this case. I knew that epel was required but not included and put it in the instructions. Wget I tested to ensure it was there by default, but it appears that Digital Ocean is modifying that too!! That's really frustrating. Can't wait till our new lab cluster is up so that we can do these tests faster and easier there with true vanilla installs and not have to trust third parties have not been modifying them.

Well, we had a discussion here (not even going to try and find the thread) about a year or so ago when I was setting something up and I mentioned this then. Mostly related to how DO was not a clean Minimal install.

I even got a $10.00 Gift Card for my efforts.

Who knew, I wasn't expecting anything.

That doesn't really surprise me that it's a bandwidth hog like that...

https://www.ninite.com/greenshot

Thanks, Ill have a look. I wonder if they are features I would be concerned over.