Posts made by BRRABill

@dashrender

Nothing, really.

I tried saving money buying 3rd party drives from Xbyte, and every couple of days my server would either freeze or reboot, I forget.

Never figured out why, but XByte replaced them and we've never looked back.

@dashrender

It was fort DELL, and switched back to the DELL drives.

Lesson learned.

Worked for some, but not in my scenario.

Wow ... it's been a month since I asked this!

From the responses, I guess there is a third little piece of this, in RMM and also how much I want control over my user machines.

In many ways, I was almost considering them all just having fresh installs, like they went out and bought a new laptop from Best Buy, and now want to attach to Office365.

The files will be there, they can collaborate. Do I really need to provide anything else?

We are currently using an RMM solution still so I can run scripts and assist remotely if needed.

Can also just buy an adapter.

I have a whole slew of them in my laptop bag.

USB-C to HDMI
USB-C to VGA
etc
etc

@scottalanmiller

Just

a) logging into our machines
b) network security

@IRJ

This is the screen I get.

I deleted everything. Then you re-enter the gateway, and it will ask you for your password.

@Obsolesce said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

For your local devices, you can use only Azure AD for logging in to your PCs. You don't need local AD for that. You also don't need Intune or anything for just basic oversight.

Yeah I didn't even think about that ... logging in after the local DC goes away.

Are you using any local (apps on your PC) that explicitly use your on-prem AD for authentication and/or other data?

No.

Okay, so you already have licensing and already have that whole thing going on. I'd keep using it. Do you have your local AD synchronizing users, passwords, etc. via AADConnect to Azure AD for your use of Office 365, email, etc.? Or, are you using local AD for logging into your Windows devices and AAD for O365 authentication?

Correct. Local AD for machines and data security. Then we log onto O365 separately. (Which is what I am assuming you mean by Azure AD (AAD).)

Some would answer your questions, others would veer off outside of contexts and dive into other assumptions to discredit others based off of un-dotted i's and un-crossed t's.

But that is every post.

What SaaS are you using, or apps are you using that uses authentication besides O365?
Nothing, really.

Unless I am misunderstanding your question.

@IRJ said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@PhlipElder said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

So our company has finally decided to make the jump to all remote.

We are small (let's say 10 people) but we used to be large, so we have a AD domain.

You can do it, but I do suggest keeping a small domain controller on-premises for simplicity in management.

There is no on prem and using Colo for this would be wasteful. You don't gain anything from it.

Yeah, literally no prem anymore.

I guess the question is ... do we just scrap our AD, and use our Office365 accounts to log in. Do we really need anything more than that?

@gjacobse said in Windows 7 and PaloAlto GlobalProtect:

@BRRABill
Yup- that’s right. And have done so on several occasions. But when it isn’t an option because it’s not there, you cannot sign out.

No username- no sign out option

I remember this threw me for a loop once.

Is there like a little icon or something? Can you send a screenshot of the settings page?

I do remember doing this once, and it was confusing.

@scottalanmiller Mainly just generic Office files. A little media here and there, but nothing intensive, if that is what you mean.

What do you mean you can't sign out?

In settings, there is a username, and a sign out option.

So our company has finally decided to make the jump to all remote.

We are small (let's say 10 people) but we used to be large, so we have a AD domain.

Right now we have a local DC and a local data server. We also use Office365 for e-mail and, of course, Office.

There is no RIGHT answer here, but if you were doing this ... what would you do?

I think there are two parts to look at...

1. Keep some sort of AD authentication, or not?
2. What to do with data?

For #1 ... I'm not sure.

For #2 ... I am thinking throw the common files onto SharePoint, and put everyone's "home" folder into OneDrive for Business. With 10 people, it won't be hard to do that for each user.

So ... let's hear it, ML ... WWMLD?

They did a simulcast once before.

#nevergotmyshirt (right @Dashrender)
#stillbitter

I have a couple Powerline adapters here. Work reliably but speed is hit or miss based on your outlets.

@JaredBusch said in LinPhone on android hard to answer if screen protector installed:

@Dashrender said in LinPhone on android hard to answer if screen protector installed:

I have several users who have screen protectors installed. They all have a near impossible time swiping the answer "button" when the app is ringing.

anyone hear of this, or any other app having this type of issue?

The users claim LinPhone is the only app having this problem.

You know this is an absolute bullshit response right?

FFS, that is not anything works. Apps have zero control over that type of thing.

Wow, this is MUCH milder a response than I was expecting.

Yeah, that is basically what happened.

They were business class drives from xByte.

I think Kingston?

Anyway ... every few hours, days the server would either freeze or reboot. Turns out it was the drives. xByte swapped them for the DELLs and they have been fine every since.

Since we have a limited number of servers, I'd probably only buy DELLs moving forward. But if there were a ton, I'd consider something else I guess.

I have a 13" XPS. I like it. The higher ups here like it too because it looks cool, like a MacBook!

@JaredBusch said

10+ years ago.. seriously man.. move on..

Sadly, said vendor is probably still using the same app.