@luismc said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:

@dashrender said in Port - How to go about setting up a client to be virtualized?:

As for Sharepoint - You don't get that much storage in Sharepoint in O365, so you'll likely be paying for more storage there. Sharepoint also has a number of files per site limit, just something else to watch out for.

For future reference to anyone wondering, I spoke to three different O365 reps today and they said the limit has been bumped to 1 million items so we'll be good for a while!

That's a bit more!

@tim_g said in Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly:

@scottalanmiller said in Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly:

@worden2 said in Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly:

@irj said in Thoughts on IT education - the good, bad, and the ugly:

@worden2 So this is one of those get certified while getting a degree schools like WGU?

Yes and no. I don't think my college is going to start employing "course facilitators" instead of professors, and simply point students to the material and expect them to grind through it. On the other hand, as a 2 year college we're not diving too deep into theory and abstracted concepts because of the time scale we're at. Does that clarify it? I do know one of our graduates is doing the WGU thing right now as part of a BS and is getting their MCSA as part of it. Personally, I think we use the certs as external validation that we're staying relevant, but when I see the A+ and other certs not keeping up (the latest A+ cert finally eliminated floppy drive questions!) I worry we're slipping behind as well.

Certs are not in any way a validation that you are relevant and certainly not ones that are not even in the right field. Certs have a place, a good one, but they are VENDOR TOOLS, not industry ones. It's not appropriate to be using them in an academic setting in any way unless, as you had originally stated, using them as a guide to the "level" of knowledge, but never as a guide to the actual knowledge.

How do you teach IT or Systems Administration without teaching students about any technologies they would be using on the job? You can't administer a System (which is from a vendor) if you don't know anything about it.

So if a course wants to teach Linux or Windows Server administration... Well surely covering many of the things the "vendor tool" covers is a great start... Competencies, measured skills, etc.

Well the first thing is that a course in college should not be teaching Linux or Windows administration, that's a trade school's job. They should be teaching concepts of administration. Now, that said, they need operating systems to use for that. But teaching concepts instead of specifics is the core concept of academic work and is very different than teaching to a vendor cert.

Remember collegiate academic work isn't for the purpose of teaching on the job skills, but to teach someone the fundamentals and concepts so that those specific skills will make sense. You aren't teaching them which button to push, but why a button like it needs to be pushed.

Example... you don't learn details of NTFS and ReFS, but you do learn file system concepts so that when someone tells you the details of NTFS and ReFS you can immediately understand them and understand other IT concepts when the market changes.

This is a problem I see with most college grads. Instead of learning IT concepts, they just memorize the motions to go through to accomplish a task. They are only trained to follow a script, they don't understand why they do things or what they do means.

@mlnews said in Five Ways to Use Raspberry Pi in the Classroom:

@travisdh1 said in Five Ways to Use Raspberry Pi in the Classroom:

@mlnews Just go and make me decide if I want to pull the Pi out or get my home lab running again.

Post some projects.

I want to turn mine into a honeypot. Will have to do the config again to do a writeup.

@sully93 I have a video from MangoCon 2016 where instead of talking about "what isn't IT" I talk about what it is. I have a recent SAMIT video on separating IT from SE. I'll do one soon on separating IT from Bench.

@nadnerB said in Large Private Training Provider Collapses:

@scottalanmiller said in Large Private Training Provider Collapses:

@JaredBusch said in Large Private Training Provider Collapses:

I guess they did not bail fast enough after it happened to ITT in the States.

People should have been paying attention. Anyone know this "school"? Was it like ITT?

I'm not sure about "like ITT" as I've no idea who they are other than they've been painted as pirates in academic gowns.

I've not had anything to do with them but going by the graduation % stats, I'm glad I didn't.

Those stats are much worse now!

https://www.scalecomputing.com/case_studies/toccoa-falls/

Toccoa Falls College (TFC) is a Christian educational institution that prepares its 800+ students for vocational and professional occupations. TFC offers 28 majors and 38 minors within three schools that include both on-campus and online courses. With the 4th largest incoming class in the history of the college (276 incoming freshman and transfers), the college was in need of a refresh to their virtualization infrastructure to support the growth in students as well as a plan to double the number of virtualized desktops in the coming years.

The public web server along with approximately 20 other mostly Windows-based Virtual Machines (VMs) were running on 3 VMware hosts with an HP SAN acting as shared storage. The hosts were maxed out on compute and RAM capacity and would either need to be replaced or added to with an additional host. The SAN had long been an IO bottleneck in the infrastructure, and with a virtual desktop (desktop virtualization) initiative in pilot already, it was necessary to start refreshing their infrastructure.

Looks like Harvard has followed suit and is blindly following Stanford into moving their CS program closer and closer to just being relabeled software engineering.

@travisdh1 said in STEM Innovation Grant:

Also passed on for a friend's daughter.

Thank you!

@scottalanmiller said in Legitimate University Programs Are Not Certification Training:

@FiyaFly said in Legitimate University Programs Are Not Certification Training:

@Dashrender said in Legitimate University Programs Are Not Certification Training:

You don't think learning programming in college is possible/worthwhile?

Possible? Very. I got my start with Python from a college course. Worthwhile? Not so much. The amount of debt you accrue due to these courses is just not worth it to me. Yes, I got my start with Python from college. VB.NET? Javascript? C#? All of those, I developed on my own time. Free. When you're talking what you learn from the course compared to the price, I see no justification in it, and especially if you're talking about getting a degree.

You shoudl be able to learn an entire college course in 2-3 days on your own for free, or for the cost of a book.

A whole 2-3 days? You must be feeling generous today. I tried taking a single course about 10 years ago which finally polished off whatever trust I had ever had in "the system".

I like to build "Internal networks" with some servers on "one side" and some servers on the "other side"... and put VyOS or pfSense, etc... between the two.

[Generally, I do this with VirtualBox on my laptop, but this setup also works well in Hyper-V]

@Joy said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:

After i finished my BS, I'd like to become an IT Educator .

Often you need at least an MS for that, at least in the US.

@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

@Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

@scottalanmiller said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

@Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

@guyinpv said in Logical IT Certification Progression:

al details. I don't regret buying or reading through any of them. Books on Windows, DOS, printers, networks, repair and troubleshooting techniques, system design and building, etc etc. All of that is good.

Answer questions posed at an interview.

Besides, bench techs don't think, according to @scottalanmiller, they work by script - aka, reading a script and doing what it says. Once you have to start making decisions, you're no longer a bench tech, you're in IT.

Not quite, but that's closer. Bench is about tech, about consumer gear or business stuff that falls into consumer spaces. IT is "Business Information Infrastructure."

Lots of bench people make decisions. Like if you are building a white box desktop for a gamer, the bench guy will likely make several decisions from CPU to GPU to RAM to case and power supply. It's not a script, but it is not BII, either.

hey - you're making it grey again 😛

There isn't nearly as many strictly hardware people anymore these days.

Not nearly, most are in datacenters now.

@mlnews said in University or the Lotto?:

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This is an absolute truth.

Learn to remember all of the things, and you're golden.

Life is one continuous stream of issues & problems.
Living is solving them.
Learning is everything.