It was super easy to do. I just created the folder and dropped the new ADMX files in.

I'd like to interject a technical bit:

In this topic, people are referring to changing plans. If I want to change from an E1 plan to E3 or vice versa, I can do that at any time, with just a few clicks. That's changing plans. Changing from Small Business to Midsize Business, for example, is a change of tenant. If you want a comparison for an onsite equivalent, it's like changing over to a new AD forest. It's not something you can just do that easily.

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

Windows 8.1 is not available in Ultimate. It's available in RT, Basic, Pro, and Enterprise. Windows 7 Ultimate included XP mode, which was a single-instance more desktop-integrated VM designed specifically to assist with application compatibility issues. It did not include normal virtualization rights.

In the Microsoft official material it stated that Ultimate was a non-SA version of Enterprise that was identical in every way.

According to this chart the VDI licensing was the same between the two...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions

Can you link the MS official material? I'm getting my info from http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/d/4/3d42bdc2-6725-4b29-b75a-a5b04179958b/licensing_windows7_with_VM_technologies.docx

I have a DS211J at home. I back it up to an attached USB hard drive as well as use iDrive from my laptop to back it up to "the cloud". I don't really use any of the extra features, just the shared folders and the time backup (kinda like VSS).

I have a client with a Rackstation 2211RP+ with an attached RX1211 expansion unit. It works very well and is rock-solid. Again just using the shared folders on an AD network.

@Bill-Kindle said:

@scottalanmiller Yup. I also tried out Relic as well, on the promise I would get a Raspberry Pi........that never happened. It's a cool service too.

Same here. Though I need to spend more time with Relic as I get a LOT of email notifications on scores and whatnot. Seems like a lot of false positives. I need a way to dial it down. And no Raspberry Pi here either...

@shalooshalini

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@Nic said:

Doesn't matter what the license says. The devs will never do anything if you violate their license and fork the code, as they prefer to remain anonymous.

Good point.

Anyone know how to extract data from an .sbb file? I am hoping for csv format.

I dunno, a still find a lot of the pre-internet stuff quite shocking, even though I was there at the time. One of my best mates as a kid didn't have a phone in their house. So if I wanted to see him, I'd have to walk a mile to his house and knock on his door. Only to find he was out, and I'd have to walk home and try again later. Even though this was a part of my childhood, it still seems weird when I think back on it.

Or in my first job, if I had a problem with Windows, I'd have to phone Microsoft, wait on hold for twenty minutes, then describe the problem to them and they'd give me the answer (or not!).

Even sitting at a desk and feeding in 150 floppy disks in order to install Microsoft Office now seems totally weird.

On the other hand, I'm still supporting dBase III applications, which is equally weird.

@Gabi said:

Not sure about the 6 users on a single credit card though 😉

I like that because I can begin to break things up by AppleID, but I am concerned about the credit card requirement. The down side of this process is that it requires a credit card at all. I currently do not have any credit cards tied to any of the iTunes accounts. They are all funded as needed with prepaid cards purchased as needed. I have this set up on purpose. I want no vector of attack that can substantially affect my credit card like that.

Right now there are 6 active iOS devices in the family. But because I do not want to buy apps multiple times, all app have been purchased under 1 of 2 Apple IDs. The first is a US based ID and the other is for the Japanese iTunes store.

In the future, I would love to not be required to share out the password to everyone. This will be much better. Each user can have their own password for their own iTunes account.

@alexntg said:

Merkins

Hahaha! Now I know 😄

@alexntg said:

Mmm, steak fries! Feel free to sync those over to my house.

How many files are being synced?

She has 3k or so files. no where close to the 20k limit. Another user does have more than 20k. I taught him how to create zip archives.

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Can't just revert back a DC.

In that case, it'd be a simple matter of tossing the old DC and spinning up a new one. More of an annoyance than anything else.

Yes. Mostly stateless. Would be scary if you put all DCs on azure though. Or any live/live system like this where an environmental change might lock out the entire environment.

I have my entire environment on AWS, spread across two geographic regions with a site-to-site VPN. Upping it a level would be putting one part on AWS and the other on Azure, with a site-to-site VPN between the two.

Yes. Having one node in Rackspace would have protected against this.

@NetworkNerd said:

@alexntg said:

On to opinion - Is your current setup meeting RPO and RTO?

Yes, it is.

In that case, anything else would be fluff. It would be important to weigh the added complexity with potential gains.

@J1MM3RT said:

I'll stick with mine.
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Just spat our my drink !

Love it

If you can you might consider just doing a direct migration from the MSP Exchange to Office 365 if that is your end goal by using a service like MigrationWiz that will be the intermediary and allow you to transfer server to cloud in one step.

http://www.bittitan.com/migrationwiz

Just a another thought

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