@scottalanmiller no kidding, I am not normally unable to keep up like this.

Someone has to chew the gum around here.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham still comes back, though, to just fundamentally bad management. No matter how big or small a business is, it needs good management.

Agreed. As I said, it's a management fail. People try to step outside their role and then get lost and confused and just $@#% stuff up.

I was always told no support was offered on PLC/SCADA stuff if we did it our selfs. The upgrade from them usually comes with 1-3 year support. going cheaply in this area when they can control so much just may cost you your job if something goes wrong.

@JaredBusch said:

Looks like Elastix has updated their RPM, but not posted anything intelligent about it..

http://bugs.elastix.org/view.php?id=2003

yeah we are watching that. Doing some testing on it on Friday night.

@art_of_shred said:

@NetworkNerd said:

@ajstringham said:

@NetworkNerd said:

Maybe I could use the HP DL 385 G5 I have with the MSA 70 and run something like FreeNAS on it for another datastore option?

That's one option. Something that would be good for, to be honest, would be your StorageCraft server, if you go with that.

I was thinking use it as a NFS datastore and a place to store the VM files for my current physical machines like was mentioned above. That saves money on a secondary backup solution.

Actually, that would be a tertiary backup solution, as you have Veeam and BE already. The original decision seemed to be "buy hardware or buy another backup solution". It seems that utilizing current hardware like that could avoid both?

I'd get rid of BackupExec with the P2V of the physical boxes and be able to use Veeam. That eliminates cost of software. But, I cannot avoid some investment in increasing backup storage. So this does not completely eliminate a need for more hardware but does decrease the cost of the hardware needed by a large factor.

@IRJ said:

Sorry for abandoning this thread. My fiance is having some complications with her pregnancy and its been keeping us busy. She is doing much better today, though.

Completely understandable! We only had to deal with fairly typical morning sickness for both of my wife's pregnancies. I count myself so lucky on that front. I have known many people with varying issues.

I have a small, portable Tascam recorder and a good AKG lapel mic that could be used for audio recording at first, I think.

@JaredBusch said:

@NetworkNerd said:

In the past it has always been USB stick required, but in this particular case, we got a brand new laser from Trumpf and the software that goes with it. I was pretty surprised when there was no USB HASP to plug into the server since that has been the trend.

A few memory cells reconnected! The new licensing requires live internet activation and deactivation.

Shortly after we installed TruTops, the HDD in the machine died and had to be replaced. I do not normally perform full backups of user computers because it is just as easy to reinstall Office 365 anymore (this client has no other special apps).

I did not think about TruTops at the time. After I reinstalled, I could not license it and TruTops had to work backend stuff and required a signed statement that we had a hard crash before they would release the license and let us relicense.

This is becoming more and more common - but I don't think the vendors using it are doing enough to educate the users of the importance of backups in these cases for recovery.

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@art_of_shred said:

Sorry if I ruined anyone's night. No, there are no nude pics of me on my phone, so don't waste time trying to hack my accounts.

Well then, I guess I am off to porn.com.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller Native in windows

Oh, well that is to be expected. You are still basically virtualizing the application. You can't reasonably ask an app to run on a non-native platform with native performance.

@scottalanmiller said:

@g.jacobse said:

I'll admit - It's something I should learn... When I put the new server online adding 150 users quickly will be nice.

You don't have AD?

,..... Uhm,.. Nope. and yes. Organization has two OU (of sorts). The main office is a (crap shoot) Workgroup. The other does have AD in a Server 2k3 with Exchange...
Thus some of my recent (history) posts.

Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite. Great router / firewall / VPN unit running Brocade Vyatta under the hood. Very powerful and just $93 on Amazon last I checked. I got mine for $89.

Yeah, i charge mine at night and dont need to charge it for 30+ hours depending on usage! spectacular. Mine's the Plus, and it's just...spectacular.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@technobabble said:

CAD/CAM

I would get an HP Z series for something like that.
http://www8.hp.com/us/en/campaigns/workstations/overview.html
OR
http://www.dell.com/us/dfb/p/precision-desktops

Which CAD program is it btw?

20/20 is a program that kitchen designers use to create the look and the blueprint for the job. (something like that)

@PSX_Defector I can't believe how many IT people in this era aren't aware of what architectures are and how many confuse IA64 ( Itanium) and AMD64 (PC).

When I worked for a major Wall St firm they actually labeled many of their packages backwards. What a mess that was.

I need to remember to patch my Unitrends box tonight.