@Aaron-Studer said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Aaron-Studer said:

Should I learn Chef or Puppet?

Good question. The answer is squarely... It depends.

Do you want hosted or on premise? On Prem

How many machines do you want to support? 25ish

Do you need a graphical interface? Yes.

What platforms do you want to support? Windows, and Linux.

Then Puppet as Chef doesn't do graphical.

@Aaron-Studer said:

I just installed this on my CentOS server. I like the look of it. I will be comparing it to webmin.

And compare to Chef / Puppet.

This is the polar opposite approach. Decentralized "snowflake" management versus centralized automation management.

@ajstringham said:

I'm creating the VMDK now. My only concern is that, all my research suggests Ubuntu is the best distro to run a LAMP server on. I'm also much more familiar with Debian systems over RPM...

RHEL has always been the LAMP leader. No upside to Ubuntu for LAMP. That's not where Ubuntu is strong. Ubuntu is better for alternative, non-LAMP, application stacks like RoR and Node.js where RHEL's conservative approach is a major problem.

Other than needing the EPEL enabled, RHEL is as straightforward as you really get for LAMP. Ubuntu has only squeaked by as being even a reasonable choice until the latest few releases.

@ambarishrh said:

Since the requirement is to upload contents like videos, images, logo etc and manage them, I still think it comes under digital asset management and not document management. Plus as per resourcespace site, which I think best suits the requirement, also describes it.ResourceSpace open source digital asset management software is the simple, fast, & free way to organise your digital assets

Sort of, but it is an extremely odd term to use for them. Digital Assets is normally use to mean computers and the like, not files and documents. In any case, it is too general to provide good results. It is purely file and document management that you seek, so no matter how correct digital assets might be it is too broad to be useful. In the way that you are using the term, we could replace the term "filesystem" with "digital asset management system" and you see how confusing that is.

What do you seek that Sharepoint, Alfresco or the filesystem do not provide?

I am in touch with http://www.accellion.com/ and checking at the Kite works enterprise. The parent company is using a product from this, but with limited storage space, but since they already use a product from accellion, I believe getting this approved would be much easier than introducing anything new. Got in touch with the local distributer and they agreed to give us a 15 days demo so we can test this in realtime. Its a software appliance which works with vmware/hyperv. Will share more details after the demo

This is fantastic, good job over there guys! @Nic

@Carnival-Boy said:

@scottalanmiller said:

No, I know of no product that has a restriction like that. No software, hardware, real estate, etc. It's a common belief that all kinds of things require one to be a business but the reality is is that such restrictions have no reason to exist and so don't. Some product somewhere is like that, but I can't think of any.

I've had problems the other way round, where I've tried to buy a consumer product with a business credit card and it's been declined because the credit card is registered to a business address.

1TB of data for $30, add e-mail and a bunch of other stuff for an extra $20. Is there anything else in the market that offers anything similar?

Yes. Often consumers get special pricing not available to a business. But any person can simply declare themselves a business if they want.

@Vladimir-Eremin said:

@Dashrender It's not a message, but rather a simple tag. When support contract is expired, e-mail notifications will have [SUPPORT EXPIRED] tag at title. Thanks.

OK that cool. Thanks for the explanation.

@alexntg said:

@Dashrender said:

We actually have a policy that IT does not help people with shortcuts. If you really need a short cut it's between you and your manager, otherwise we deploy needed internet favorites via GPO, and the rest of the applications are in the start menu(start screen).

That must make file server moves a breeze!
Standard network drives, yes - user directories, not so much.

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

@Dashrender said:
but I'd say about half are utterly unwilling to do the most basic things when they run into any type of problem.

I'm glad I'm not the only one that runs into this. haha

@Reid-Cooper said:

Cool. How does this compare to Owncloud?

I personally favor Seafile over Owncloud. Although I have not spent a lot of time with either.

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg I much prefer using stuff that is more applicable for business. Sophos pulls that "no prices" stuff. From what I can see it is about 600% the price of the Ubiquiti.

The pricing for the home edition is publicly posted:
http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx

As far as "business" pricing, most of the major equipment vendors operate that way (Cisco, Palo Alto, Sonicwall). They're all either "Contact Sales" or "Find a Reseller". It's a traditional channel business model. Would I like to see a flat price? Certainly, but it doesn't happen.

It's free for software, but not the appliance. VyOS is free too.

@garak0410 looks promising.

@Reid-Cooper said:

The Shatner stuff is seriously classic.

The "Shat"...you know, I never did see the faux Atari Boy and faux George Plimpton Vic-20 commercial before...I think there was another one like that with Colecovision before...not quite sure.

@Dashrender said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

Does Office Home Premium include email now? I used it about a year ago, and it didn't.

Oh. Is it only the Office products?

It's a subscription to Office Home Premium desktop applications and extra OneDrive space.

Agreed, did anyone find out if it now includes email?

It doesn't include mail.

@Minion-Queen said:

A check list for them to go over for certain issues might help.

+1 for this idea. Here we have check list and we required to login ( HANDOVER CHECKLIST) all the issues and how they resolved the problem.

They also only have a coupe, of mentions on SW. Mostly about spamming people via email to sign up.

Currently liking CrashPlan, but when I hear of things I like to inquire.

Here is where you can buy one...

http://www.amazon.com/Elegant-Slope-stand-Compatible-universal/dp/B00IXZ45YQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403911350&sr=8-1&keywords=dekke

$50 isn't horrible.

I don't want to shame the vendor, it was just a shocking admission for a vendor to post.