@Dashrender said in SAMIT: Do You Really Need Active Directory: I am surprised that MS didn't come out with a better solution for this ages ago. That whole Direct Connect or whatever it was called - phone home VPN solution they have for Enterprise edition only - what a kluge. They are working on phasing this out. DirectAccess was a kludge that is being replaced by Always-On-VPN. Which works on versions of Windows Professional and Up and requires very little outside of a certificate and Group Policies (or Intune).

I watched, its great advice. It is something I have always instinctively known but have never really been able to articulate. When SHTF, all the fancy trinkets and add-ons go bye-bye. Thanks Scott!!

@Dashrender said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions: @scottalanmiller said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions: @Dashrender said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions: @scottalanmiller said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions: @Dashrender said in Disconnected: Why Companies Encourage Bad IT Decisions: The one place the presentation doesn't really hit on is reliability of the circuit. Of course to wit Scott will say - US carriers of old school telecom are horrible, and most ISPs are equally as reliable, if not more so than carriers. And unlike carriers, you can likely more easily setup redundancies with the ISP, when was the last time typical businesses setup redundancy on their phone service? Not really a place where the CEO should care. In a healthy organization, Jared's presentation would be from the telecom person or team to the CIO. The CIO would just inform the CEO of what they are doing, if he even needed to know. A CEO should not be stuck in the weeds of demanding to understand why modern infrastructure is more reliable than legacy infrastructure. Right, but in that case the case is made to the CIO, not the CEO, because what you stated. So the CIO would need to know these things, I would think. Correct, the information is good, but is for "inside IT", not for "the business". So question - where do you see that CIO person fitting? You've already said they were IT, but are they more an executive - or more IT? or do you not see a difference in this case? To me, there is no difference. Anyone making IT decisions has to be a business person to do that job. The CIO has to be completely in sync with everything in the business and be thinking completely within the holistic business context. But they must also be a generalist with a deep understanding of nearly every aspect of IT. This is why a CIO role is rare and expensive... you need someone who would be reasonably expensive in their business role OR their IT role, then the overhead of putting those two roles together in a single human. And this is why so many CIOs are terrible, they often only have tech skills or business and are unable to bridge the gap which is their role.

@scottalanmiller That's one hell of a run on sentence! Do you actually speak without pausing or breathing?

@hobbit666 said in SAMIT on Huawei vs Google: One thing I don't get yet is my have Xiaomi, Umidigi and other manufactures from that side of the world not been effect by all this stuff with the US? My thoughts would be if the government have been asking Huawei to but spying/data harvesting stuff in gear wouldn't they be asking all manufacturers? If they go after "all" it would over expose the falseness of the whole thing.

@nexzcore said in Home Lab Ideas from SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller Hi Scott Am from India and starting a Startup offering Services Like Networking Support .Need some help on this. Sure, feel free to direct message me.

A classic. These shows are the best.

@jaredbusch said in Forum Posting Etiquette SMBIT Video: @scottalanmiller but nodebb has a decent method to handle this. You can reply as topic. It iwll open the reply windows, but stay withing the current topic. So you can then select the text of the post you want to talk about in a new topic and click the quote link. You know, I've never used that and once in a while I look at it, but then forget before using it again.

@scottalanmiller said in Why Visual Basic Is the Worst Programming Language for Your Project SAMIT Video: @Pete-S said in Why Visual Basic Is the Worst Programming Language for Your Project SAMIT Video: Anyway, you couldn't really do any serious applications with gwbasic. It was followed by qbasic a little later. I was in time to get to do both. Still have the original GWBASIC manuals! I just did a little with both. But this was around the same time that Borland released Turbo Pascal and at least in my view it became the serious language to make PC applications with in that era. It was almost instant compilation and it had a very good IDE.

@momurda said in Survey of Fake Jobs SAMIT Video: Anyway to get it to transcribe these to a document whose text you could put underneath your videos? Gotta find an easy way to pretty it up. But I know how to get it now, so I can work on that.

@bbigford said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: @bbigford said in The Entirely Fake Office SAMIT Video: Wow. Yeah, amazing the lengths that companies will go through. The fake office in a verified business with the intent of approaching them... I am lost for words on how messed up that is to lure people in as part of the key deliverables & company resume. Shows how much the clients will potentially pay if the recruiters "own" all viable candidates!

@scottalanmiller said in Job Hunting is Like Online Dating SAMIT Video: I can see a podcast mechanism being very handy. I like podcasts on an old fashioned MP3 player with no Internet myself. I can offer to make the podcast on this.

@scottalanmiller said in How to Spot Fake Job Postings SAMIT Video: Youtube Video Fake job postings are sometimes pretty hard to spot. But there are a lot of signs that can help us identify common fake jobs. The truth about this had me gut rolling in the car the other day. Great video.

@wrx7m said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video: why does anyone waste time posting the job then? Posting the job? Because there is a ton of value is using fake job postings to harvest data about job seekers. Compare it to SPAM email or fake Tinder profiles - they are snares to trap the gullible or to just collect general data. It's essentially free and zero effort to do, but an incredibly powerful tool for collecting data or more. The issue is actually the opposite than you picture. To you it seems like a waste of time. But in reality, it's worth so much money to have fake job postings that it is amazing any real jobs remain at all.

@wrx7m said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: @scottalanmiller said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: @wrx7m said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros: What if you are both? lol That's a hard aspect of it, there is almost always overlap. Not always, but especially in the SMB there is often quite a bit. Any SMB IT Pro will have to buy regularly. Many buyers do IT work on smaller scales so as not to have to go through the process of buying something simple. Yeah, I am an IT pro that has to buy. At some point, all pros have to buy sometimes. Heck even General Motors buys some of their parts from the outside!

@pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video: @dustinb3403 said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video: @pmoncho said in Past Bad Decisions Do Not Justify Bad Decisions Today SAMIT Video: Unfortunately, sometimes the best answer/decision today becomes a bad decision tomorrow. Then it clearly wasn't the best decision at the time. If you are evaluating a system today, and it does everything you could ever need and then some. It cost a nominal amount of money to implement compared to the competition and you go with that solution. That isn't a bad decision. In 3 years there could be a way better system that exist and costs even less and offers more. But you needed a system 3 years ago not 3 years in the future. You picked the best solution for the organization that was available at the time. "At the time" is the key phrase. A boss could say, "Why didn't you look to the future and only see the present? You wasted my money because you didn't look out far enough" That then makes it a bad decision even though it could have been the best smart logical decision ever. I'm not saying its right, just that the boss could say it. I am in agreement that we do our best to make the best decision based on info we have at the time. That still opens the door to a previously best decision becoming a bad decision. That's just the boss making a different bad decision now

@popester said in Hybrid RAID SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller sounds like a "Hot Mess" Pretty much

Instantaneous Storage Evacuation Event

@scottalanmiller said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video: @flaxking said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller It is interesting that bench/IT cross discipline experience is so common, but it often happens from convenience/budget constraint or ignorance. (though sometimes it happens as a hobby) And thus being cross trained won't help you that much in advancing your career. However IT/Dev cross discipline is super useful and there is an ongoing spike in demand for it. As well as being well paying. But Bench/IT is more common. That might be changing though. With the cloud providing another layer of abstraction from the hardware, and with learning Powershell scripting meaning you're starting to cross into Dev. My personal belief is that DevOps is not the future of systems administration, only a stepping stone along the path. System admins aren't attempting to do something bespoke or unique, like developers are, so the use of development methodologies doesn't make sense abstractly within IT circles. Right now, a lack of advanced tooling for what admins need creates a need for DevOps, but only to fill an existing gap - one that I know of at least one company working to fill. Once the power of Devops exists without the need for developer knowledge or experience, I think that we will rapidly see that category disappear again. I think you're probably right, when we're talking about interdisciplinary IT/Dev skills and the misnamed 'DevOps Engineer' role. Eventually that will be automated and abstracted away. At which point mixing IT and Dev will as inherently valuable as mixing any other discipline with Dev, and it would make more sense to be talking about the value of Bench/Dev vs. IT/Dev. However the 'power of DevOps' is a whole other can of worms.

This is totally a coincidence that this was the next one up in the queue to post here. But talk about perfect timing! This came up at least three times today alone.

@coliver said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video: @wirestyle22 said in What Net Neutrality Means to You SAMIT Video: BREAKING: Senator Chuck Schumer says there will be a Senate Vote to overturn the FCC's ruling on Net Neutrality -- Only a simple majority will be required to overturn the ruling. Sadly, he needs a majority but the R have the majority and don't want to vote against the companies that have them in their pockets. And there is no point to doing so as this was Trump's boi in the FCC and Trump has veto. So while CHuck is doing a good thing, it won't make any difference. It's posturing. Seems more like he knows it won't work and is just prepping for 2018 at this point. He and Booker are top considerations for president so, very likely.

@scottalanmiller Thanks man!!! Review time.

@flaxking said in Always Study for the Future SAMIT Video: When I was deciding when if I was going to do Server 2012 or 2016 certifications, I went with 2012, and I'm glad I did because it was still a year from that point that the Server 2016 exams came out, and I was already certified. Maybe I should have worded it "study for the farthest future that there is a test for"