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@zuphzuph said in Cylance Questions:

A Cylance demo product would be nice... just saying.

The word seems to be "Soon"

How is OWA vulnerable to Phishing any more than google.com, amazon.com or MYBANK.com

Come on don't be shy, show us what you have done

Skip 192.168.1.1 please.

Most home networks use that, so IP address conflicts with VPNs tend to happen.

I've not had my hands on that unit so no comment.

I like how you heard white with red bits and then built a classy seutp to suit. Very nicely done.

@Dashrender said

Doesn't this double or more the cost? You'd need at least two times the storage.

Depends on the model you use and how you do it. If you look at a Scale system, you have 3 nodes which combine to give you more usable storage than a single node.

Yes it could drive the cost of the storage higher but if speed and reliability are the primary goals, 1 node won't cut it.

Hi I'm a consultant!

I'm gonna pitch to you how I could slot in and help without knowing anything specific.

Firstly, I work for you, Which means I have no reseller deals with HP/Dell or another vendor, so if I propose a solution it's because I want to do the best job I can for you not focus on making you sign a deal with a particular option.

Secondly, If the in house IT team is lacking in a particular skill or piece of knowledge, the consultant comes in, gives training to the team for a pittance of the cost of hiring someone else with that skill.

Thirdly, If management want a second opinion on how the tech team is doing. if they want a technical appraisal of their infrastructure and want to confirm or discover if the IT team is holding up, a consultant is great for that.

Now if IT don't want a consultant and management does want one in the room...there is something going on there which you need to pay attention to. Even if no consultant appears, think about what might happen next.

@Dashrender said

Interesting - I kinda find this insulting - it seems more like management doesn't trust their IT team to 'do their job' if the consultant is there for anything more than a audit.

Remember the Bobs? They are consultants too...

If management feels a consultant is ever needed, you need to determine the why.

• Is it because removals are on the horizon?
• Has management lost trust in IT? (If so why? Can it be fixed)
• Do they just want to confirm everything is going ok with a second opinion.

Once everyone is on board with why X is happening, the process is a lot better for all.

@Dashrender said

Why won't one node do it? Where is the bottle neck in one node?

Because you can increase speed by lowering the demand on a single device.

If I take 100 users and put them to a single box, that box needs to be able to cope with 100 all hammering it at once.

Two boxes, make that job easier but now you gain 2 separate items to fall over and die before you have a reliability issue with up time.

Again, you could decrease the cost of a single really expensive node, with 4 nodes which go some of the way there but are then combined so you get a total storage pot which is bigger.

@AshKetchum said

So basically, you contact a specialist consultant based on your requirements. That's better, because here the consultant contact the vendor so if we have issue with the firewall we need to pass the consultant first before contacting the vendor for firewall.

That's not a consultant.

That's a reseller pretending to be a consultant.

@Carnival-Boy said in Homeworking:

I believe it does, but I haven't used it. Note that I'm not just looking at chat between IT staff, I'm looking at using it company wide for users to chat to us.

Again, FreshDesk Have a chat window on the support page, this doubles up because if no one is online, they get to fill in a ticket.

You want to drive people to as few sources as possible.

@NashBrydges said in Testing Out Comodo One RMM and Helpdesk:

@scottalanmiller said in Testing Out Comodo One RMM and Helpdesk:

What about http://osticket.com/ @Minion-Queen

Interesting you mention OSTicket because Comodo One is using OSTicket as their ticket system. Compare the two and you'll immediately see it's the same ticket system.

Yeah I said that before as well

@nvila said in how your IT department approach a request?:

someone warned me before that the culture here is watching someone to fail. blame game is rampant as well. how to protect your self on this kind of practices

Think of jobs as different swimming pools, some are full of toxic waste and others are nice and clear.

Get of the toxic pool, find a new pool to swim in.

@scottalanmiller said in You Cannot Virtualize That:

Definitely looking for feedback and ideas on this one. Trying to get the idea across but struggling to figure out if I've worded it in a good way.

Do you mind if I re-write this? I wonder if a lot of it could be made shorter for the sake of speed reading online.

"One thing that many, many vendors attempt to do is limit the scenarios under which their product will be supported. By doing this, they set themselves up to be prepared to simply not provide support - support is expensive and unreliable. This is a common strategy. It some cases, this is so aggressive that any acceptable, production deployment scenario fails to even exist."

Becomes

"One thing that many vendors do is limit the scenarios under which their product will be supported. They set themselves up to simply not provide support - support is expensive and unreliable. This is a common strategy and in some cases any acceptable scenario fails to even exist."

For me I'd prefer reading the above, we're cutting out words and also changing the tone. We're not saying try to do, we're saying this is something they are doing today.

I think I'd give BB a chance to respond privately before calling them out when the facts are unknown.

@Dashrender said

It's it @scottalanmiller who said that the NAS has admitted that Amazon has better security than they do? Or did I dream that?

If you are a burgaler looking to steal something, of course you are going to make that statement that you cannot break into a particular area. People will move their valuables into that area and whoops, the thieves have them.

Government sponsored, highly motivated, extremely dangerous combined with serious levels of funding burglars.

AWS let's me sleep at night.
Azure gives me nightmares.

A bit dramatic but that's the perceived reliable of both platforms and the actual glitches I've experienced on both.

Now think very carefully about whether you want AWS V Azure. or Azure AD versus something you've not mentioned yet. They are 2 different services.

@JaredBusch said

I have had zero issues with Azure.

I've lost control of servers routinely. That portal has been very bad to me.

@Romo said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

@Breffni-Potter said in What is the best way to deploy Linux desktops?:

$5000 a year for Ansible and a 100 device minimum?

What is this madness?

That is Ansible Tower

I only found Ansible Tower on page 2 of Google. They've got really bad SEO.

Where can I find Ansible as an item?

@Dashrender said in Backing up Office 365 mailboxes:

@art_of_shred said in Backing up Office 365 mailboxes:

@dafyre I guess you make a good point there, but is that a real problem? I've not heard of that happening, at least not to any degree that I worry about it.

Interesting - so MS has no option for restoring a mailbox in this scenario if you don't have the legal hold option?

Indeed. There is no insurance against self destructive loss.