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We have a lot of databases on our Exchange 2013 server. Definitely exceeding the 5 allowed to be mounted at one time. I'm dwindling down databases and combining them into only a couple. I know I can do a shell move all mailboxes to a new database, but is there a way in 2013 to actually see who is associated within the admin console? Someone asked me and I can't find it. I know you could in 2007 and I believe also in 2010 since they both used EMC instead of the new EAC.

@Dashrender said:

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The obscurity that you're going to is the move to Linux and the fact that the malware writers haven't bothered to write malware for Linux yet.

MAC users could say the same thing, until they couldn't. It's been several months or more now since a MAC variant of ransomware has been available.

See, you could have previously just as easily said - I want to move everyone to a MAD because there's no ransomware there, well that would have worked until it didn't... the same WILL happen to Linux.

But you can skip the entire concern of this specific avenue of problem by moving to SharePoint or ownCloud.

I'm not saying move to Linux because only Windows gets viruses. I'm saying I want to move to Linux because I hate Windows. Maybe that was too subtle...

oh, yeah it was too subtle, because hating windows has nothing to do with the security hole we were talking about.

I'm just trying to find any good excuse to switch, give me a break! If I can twist the subject into a justified transition, you bet I will.

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Considering the hack Mint suffered recently - I've seen reports that indicate they aren't doing that great of a job securing their distro.

Can anyone attest to that one way or the other?

Mint hack? I've heard of a number of security problems with open source things, but completely missed the Mint one. Got any handy reference?

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=2994

Yeah I saw that one. Compromised the site then uploaded the hacked ISO. Yeesh.

@scottalanmiller said:

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No safety net or QA. Classic Microsoft.

Well, raw and uncensored. They tried something daring and got... something daring.

I was seriously blown away. Haha sitting around that discussion table. I get the feeling someone said "it mines the community's input, then automates the output in the form of a tweet... What could possibly go wrong?" The first mistake was under estimating people of the Internet.

@Dashrender said:

that place sounds exactly like Drop Box, only a little smaller. I visited Drop Box last year.. glass conference rooms, open floor plan, almost no cubicals, everyone wearing headphones.

free lunch/drinks/snacks everyday... etc.

Headphones are the new cubicles.

PayPal sprung up out of necessity for ease to pay on sites without putting in you card information each time, send family and friends money, transactions can be linked to business payment software, etc. But how safe is it really? Scammers can set up fake accounts, get the transactions pulled or even linked to false payment information, etc. What is everyone else using when sending money to family, etc?

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I drink a lot That's the real solution. If you are not drinking heavily, IT is likely not for you

Do you drink and IT?

I drink and everything.

Scott has just admitted to drinking and driving folks.

We have it in writing, now someone send the Rochester Police to go and fetch him.... </sarcasm>

SAM probably has a few cops on retainer for just such an occasion.

Not where he's living right now. We could probably pool our couch money and bribe him into some trouble

You have a couch?! Lucky...

The ironic part was this was generated because she sent a company wide email telling people to use the right signature format... Her email didn't have the signature formatted correctly because of that.

@IRJ said:

What is the point of being hired as an IT professional and having to explain yourself for something so trivial?

I often ask myself that very question.

@wirestyle22 said:

I don't know you man but if some random guy on a forum (me) wants more for you

Well that was a damn nice thing to say. Thanks, I appreciate that.

I don't mind ads, but on some sites I am down to less than 50% of utilized space. Check out the pic below on an article I was reading. I've obviously been looking at buying a new grill...

So I have a really weird task...

Because we're using ServiceDesk, and we need a dev environment that is a little funky (I could write a lot on that... so I'll spare your time). I need to find a way to allow DPM to do an auto restore. Anyone know of a way to do that? I know DPM doesn't do automation as far as I'm aware... but I thought I'd ask.

@KOOLER said in Solus 1.1 Linux on Scale HC3:

Very nice! I want it or something derived from it on my Raspberry and Banana Pis

I bet this on a Pi is awesome.

Migrating to Skype for Business Online. It's just terrible.

Anyone else doing something they don't want to do lately? Anything goes...

@KOOLER said in Solus 1.1 Linux on Scale HC3:

They will catch up definitely! ARM is getting a very good kick now. Raspberry Pi is somehow underpowered by current "modern" means but Banana Pi solves most of the business cases AFAIK. That's NOT thin client if you care.

I haven't looked at RBP 3 vs. BP. Sounds like you've tried them both, what'd you find?

Probably because Hyper-V permanently takes over VT-x instead of sharing like VMware Player for instance (VB forum)... Because it's a level 1 hypervisor?

In either case, sharing is not caring I guess.

I've got a situation I need to get off my chest. So I've got this user, and she is so incredibly painful to deal with. Let's call her "Painful". Painful makes me sad, and ruins most of the days I have to interact with her. Painful thinks that everything revolves around her and screams at you if you don't fix her issue(s) right away. Even if the world is on fire, and all the systems in the company have crashed, you will hear about it. She has some issues that a well trained psychiatrist couldn't fix.

She is also a mom, so she not only tries to talk to you like you're stupid, but also talk to you like you're her 5 year old. If she doesn't get her way, she complains to her boss and pressures him into doing something. The problem with that logic is I don't work for her boss, the VP, I work for the CEO. When I used to work FOR her department, the CEO didn't like that certain departments felt they could control IT to their benefit, so he said screw it and took control. Now we aren't under any department, which is the way it should be. IT should be fair to every department and not influenced in any way (like losing your job if you don't focus on department X first and foremost). There's another issue with her logic... Painful thinks she can pressure people into making them more maleable to her needs. The last person in her position (but reporting directly to someone of more importance) did that, they were fired after working her for 10 times longer than Painful.

Painful tried to do the same thing with someone else in my department, to a guy we'll call Timid. Timid is a very nervous individual. He came from a very oppressive country is extremely obedient to authority. Even if that person THINKS they are the authority, like Painful. Timid has a family, two bachelor degrees, and is a very great guy. He has a lot to learn about IT, he picks up things a little slowly, but remembers them forever. I swear if you tell the guy something twice, he'll remember it forever. Timid isn't strong in systems, doesn't have strong troubleshooting skills, but he is great with customers and he needs to stay here.

Painful doesn't feel that way. She thinks Timid is worthless and complains to a point it jeopardizes his job. Anyone who frustrates Painful, hears about it. Not to your face, but behind your back to your co-workers and Painful's boss.

I know this is just a matter of outlasting Painful because of how toxic she is to the environment, and I do like a lot of other people here. I especially like the people in my department. I'll go in doses, because I could talk about this for days. I was getting to a point and needed to let some of that out. Kind of like those few moments before a teapot starts whistling. Thanks for listening.

Anyone else care to join in and say what's been frustrating you? If so, share it.

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How close are you to the degree? A degree in IT is rarely worth getting unless you want more of a hands off management position.

Not close. I just completed my first year. Still 3 to go. I don't want to be a manager. The last place I was at I managed 8 people and I hate it. Managing people vs. managing tech is not one of my strong points. I'm too hands on, and I find that I micro manage. Plus, I am too hard on people. When it comes to colleagues, I completely leave them alone unless they ask me for help so I'm a better team member than a manager/supervisor.

I just want to stick in systems. I'm not getting a management degree anyway. I'm getting a BAS in network administration (heavier emphasis on systems though).

With 10 years experience it really isn't going to help you much at all if at all.

I'm not doing it out of necessity. My family was never really big on college but I always wanted to go. This is 100% just a life goal, rather than "I need to do this to get a good job". I tried my first year out and did really well, so I want to see it through to the end. At least as far as I can take it.

I don't understand.... if it doesn't net you much in your career then what's the point of consuming alot of time and money? College sucks and most of the time you learn stuff that isn't relevant to your career.

This college has arguably the best network administration program in the state and I am learning some stuff here and there. It doesn't follow traditional broad view University cirriculum. It's all tech classes with very few general education classes to meet the requirements of graduation.

Why I'm going though, because I want to go. Not because I need to go. I advocate to tons of people that ask if they need a degree or certs to get a better job, I tell them it won't hurt you, but you can't expect those things to be a skeleton key that unlocks every door of opportunity.

I want the sense of achievement. For the last 10 years, my family says how successful I am and honestly I feel like shit at the end of the day. I just have a terrible outlook on my life. Absolutely no reason why I should, and I've been working on that for some time with counseling and medication but there has been little improvement. One thing about a degree is I can literally hold my achievement in my hands. No other reason why I'm getting a degree other than I've always wanted to go to school and say "I did that".

That's the best I can do at describing why I want it.

I don't even know how to word this question in Google, so I turn to you!

We have a namespace that is having issues. That namespace has a shared folder that was created in DFS. \namespace\fileshares

I setup a new namespace for testing... \namespace\DFStest

When I go to \namespace, I can't see DFStest, I can only see \fileshares (among SYSVOL & NETLOGON of course).

My question is, how do I publish/advertise that DFStest share that I created in DFS, to the \namespace, so people can simply type in \$OurNamespace and drill down to DFStest > $testfolders ?

We have Skype for Business Online, and an on-premises Exchange 2013 server. We are migrating from Exchange 2007 and nearly complete. We have Office 365 but are not in hybrid mode.

Many other people can see their conversation history in Outlook, but not me. I have the appropriate boxes checked, and the install of Office 365 on my machine went smoothly. Everything works fine, but my conversations stopped saving when I got off Office 2013.

Any ideas?