What Are You Doing Right Now
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@donaldlandru makes me wonder how many of these my boss has totally ignored, because his email is on all the MS licensing stuff.
These get sent to me from customers and the SAM people hate getting my calls ... "oh sorry, but we know what this is and that you aren't official and don't know the licensing and we do, so we aren't doing this... click"
Once you are up front and tell them that you knwo what's up, they go away. They aren't looking for shops that are knowledgeable, that's how they'd get themselves sued. They literally only want people who are just going to play along and do what they are told.
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I broke @romo's VDI instance and I'm trying to fix it before he catches on.
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Actually wait, he's logged in. It's not broken. What did he do?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@donaldlandru makes me wonder how many of these my boss has totally ignored, because his email is on all the MS licensing stuff.
These get sent to me from customers and the SAM people hate getting my calls ... "oh sorry, but we know what this is and that you aren't official and don't know the licensing and we do, so we aren't doing this... click"
Once you are up front and tell them that you knwo what's up, they go away. They aren't looking for shops that are knowledgeable, that's how they'd get themselves sued. They literally only want people who are just going to play along and do what they are told.
I had no problem playing along before, but I never really thought about it. It's like talking to the police, it can never help you.
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@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@donaldlandru makes me wonder how many of these my boss has totally ignored, because his email is on all the MS licensing stuff.
These get sent to me from customers and the SAM people hate getting my calls ... "oh sorry, but we know what this is and that you aren't official and don't know the licensing and we do, so we aren't doing this... click"
Once you are up front and tell them that you knwo what's up, they go away. They aren't looking for shops that are knowledgeable, that's how they'd get themselves sued. They literally only want people who are just going to play along and do what they are told.
I had no problem playing along before, but I never really thought about it. It's like talking to the police, it can never help you.
This may be the best answer, the other thing they do want you to believe is that you have to true up your licensing through them. Don’t ever do that. You have so many better options, in our case I buy things through our regular var and send them a copy of the receipt. I’ve never bought anything we don’t need, that would be fiscally irresponsible, just maybe a month earlier than needed.
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About to be on a call about Cisco AMP.
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@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@donaldlandru said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just got the dreaded M$ call for our every other year audit. At least the new online form was only about 15 minutes of work because nothing has changed since our last one. It was claiming I have -32 licenses for Server 2019 which I don't even have installed?? oh well.
Hmm.. I will be interested in this new process. I just got the email this morning for mine; however, they said fill out the attached deployment summary and didn't attach anything. :man_shrugging:
Mine was a link to Microsoft Insight
All of my volume license info and Office 365 stuff was already loaded. Basically just have to fill out how many computers and servers use whatever OSes. I don't have any SQL licenses or anything like that, but I'd imagine they would have been preloaded if I did.
Hmm.. That site looks shady as hell. Not even owned by Microsoft. If I had to guess the third part vendor that did your audit was https://www.insight.com/en_US/buy/partner/microsoft.html
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just bought a Refurb Dell T7500, 2x Hex Core, 64GB RAM, for a test Lab
Just got the shipping email. Should be with me tomorrow.
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D&D Night.
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Talking to my friend Mary and finding out that she was turned down for an NTG internship in 2013. That's the fourth report of someone close to me getting turned down for no reason in that time. Grrrrr....
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Working on SQL Queries
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Friend called to chat for a few hours.
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Night, all.
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A lot of people online at midnight!
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This place is crazy quiet today, what's up?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This place is crazy quiet today, what's up?
I'm not running into more silly issues with Windows that I don't find the fix for until the 3rd page of Google results today
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
This place is crazy quiet today, what's up?
I'm not running into more silly issues with Windows that I don't find the fix for until the 3rd page of Google results today
So you haven't turned your computer on yet today I take it?
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Morning - Happy Friday eve which also doubles as national burrito day.
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@WrCombs Cool, didn't know this. I'll have to stop by Fuzzy's on the way home tonight.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs Cool, didn't know this. I'll have to stop by Fuzzy's on the way home tonight.
Ah, I cant take the credit for that one.
@scottalanmiller created a thread about it.
