@ambarishrh said:

@scottalanmiller Nice writeup on that actually.

Few of our servers are hosted in London and some in Vancouver. I was just wondering if loggly is safe enough to push all server logs. A centralised logging option is always in my mind, but am still thinking of having a self hosted log management server to collect and analyse logs from all our servers.

Loggly is the leading hosted log platform. It is likely safe to consider it safer than hosting your own log collection platform. Loggly is a major player.

Ah, I found a Chome plugin called 42 that lacks the tutorial stuff but is a nice, clean interpreter.

@Carnival-Boy said:

Out of interest, why is your client moving?

With mailboxes that large, I can only imagine the Outlook sync has issues at best.

Always good to see quality 3rd party Mac stuff

I actually started down that path in Q1 of 2013 when we deployed Elastix at my main site but ran out of time. Back then the T32G was not part of the configurator, but I did find this gem, which may help you:
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I got as far as adding the T32G to the phone database on the server so that it would show as an option when Elastix detects the phone. But that's as far as I made it.

You bet. I was surprised when I found it. What a great idea. Now we just need OpenSuse support.

A single domain across both sites with a DC at each feels better at a first read. Very simple but keeping traffic from going over the WAN except as failover.

It's interesting I happened to see this thread today. We too have a Lanier copier similar to @Dashrender mentions above, and we were not able to do scanning to SMB because of Server 2012 R2's SMB version as well. We went with the Windows FTP server approach to get around it. Scan to FTP seems to work very well for pretty much every printer / copier we have that supports it.

Yes. It needs patched to get all of the updates. It is a mature release at this point.

Two Linux only options in the five new servers released.

KVM support is there now as is Ubuntu.

Hmmm I will have the team take a look at this and see what could be causing this issue.

I'm with you on Google Apps. It's a good product but it is very limited and doesn't have the look and feel of modern apps. I don't like using Gmail either. It's unnecessarily quirky and busy. Google doesn't make things as fun to use or as easy to use as they could.

I think that the Chromebook model is better than it seems. Only problem is is that businesses are struggling to adapt to it. But it is a business problem and failing, not a Google one. Google supplies the tools, business can't grok them.

In the same vein, the Linux world has everything businesses need and have for a decade or more and yet almost no businesses have cares to go down the 100% Linux path regardless of the massive savings and ease of use once the transition is over.

Have fun 🙂 bit of a learning curve but an amazing tool.

I think of them as consumer. Hard to picture using them in a business setting.

@Joyfano Not a fan of qsee / lorex brands..
they work - but are pretty cheap...
the remote viewing can be a pain with the applications... have setup countless of these and they work - but reviewing recordings isn't as reliable smooth as it could be...

that said many have this issue in that price range... qsee/lorex are both pretty "Cost Effective"

I forgot to mention Theory of Constraints. It's a great way to shake up old procedures, provided they're the bottleneck. Furthermore, it can sometimes shake up headcount if some people refuse to change. This is a practice that I enjoy, as it closely mirrors what sysadmins and network admins do on a regular basis, except it's at a corporate level. One of the challenges with this can be bumping into standards and regulations. When making procedure changes, don't forget to keep your compliance officer/group in the loop so that they can make sure all the appropriate standards still apply.

@scottalanmiller Yes, I was thinking about the same. Need to test this soon! 🙂

true, which is why I'm not really even considering them for any of my current solutions

@technobabble said:

@Nara
RDS

In that case, why not an RDS Gateway? Combine it with RD Web Access, and you have an easy portal for users to access their RDS sessions with while still keeping things secure.