What if you could keep the Azure VM off as a disaster box, power it on, restore from backup, would be much cheaper long term if you only paid for Azure storage rather than have it on 24/7 then if a disaster does strike you can use it.

@scottalanmiller

I imagine you use Pertino to do the connection between the different clients with ADconnect?
What if you were to do it without Pertino?

@Dashrender said:

how does licensing working for that?

As far as I can tell, Azure says you do not need to buy CALS, you pay for it with their hosting package. So the per hour fee you pay covers the server license along with hardware/bandwidth.

@scottalanmiller I don't disagree, this is what I am trying to look into, I don't trust Azure 100% yet so wondering about whether a hybrid approach would work.

On site DC with hosted offsite DC.

Also, let's assume some sites are happy to pay for COLO and other such methods if needs be.

Having a redundant server in the same room is not a great idea, power cuts, floods, ect.

That 4 hour SLA from Dell is worth nothing if power to the street is down for 2 days.

@thecreativeone91 Cisco...Dear god no.

Dell? Yes I've seen their warranty guys in action but still, for a service as simple as active directory and DNS, can we still not use hosted services as a redundant backup?

@scottalanmiller It's the cost of new server hardware + the 4 hour warranty callout each year.

Plus if a raid controller breaks, you still have to wait for the hardware warranty + rebuild the array and then restore the data.

The scenario is this.

Windows 2012r2 server on site, running AD, DNS, File server.

The site has the capability for gateway/firewall site to site VPN.

Their server blows up due to PSU failure, hard drive, raid array failure, any number of reasons which could leave them out of action for a day, 2 days.

I'd like to see if I can bring that down-time to 4 hours, without a redundant hardware box on site, using hosted services.

What options are available? Azure seems to do things but they involve SSCM or backing up Azure based instances.

http://www.ytddownloader.com/

Another mention for a good tool.

I think wordpress auto patches minor versions but not major revisions, for fear of breaking sites.

@coliver Their website is a bit of a mess, where is this free hosted service? I could only find the free installable helpdesk.

Woe for those of us in rented accommodations who cannot run a single cable

@garak0410
https://www.manageengine.com/products/service-desk-msp/

Give the free edition a try.

@thecreativeone91 Well I don't know about that We never got that far, the initial issues scared us away.

Biggest let down was the awful setup/inventory.

I said it fairly early on on the Spiceworks community, Spiceworks tries to do a lot of things but does not do anything really that well.
Yes it works but it's not AMAZING.

freshdesk.com
Might be worth having a look at this, Really like this helpdesk product, been using it on/off over the past year.

Two things wrong with this game.

E
A

What a surprise, definitions on the FW were just updated. Gahhhh

Fortiwho

The word "Sold" was definitely correct, first time buying gateway firewall, plus it's got all the ying yangs for security licenses. Very expensive for what is needed.

Organisation was sold a Sonicwall...to the tune of a few thousand.

Gateway Anti-Virus Alert
This request is blocked by the Firewall Gateway Anti-Virus Service. Name: (Cloud Id: 21902137) Agent.FL (Trojan)

Seems pretty special. This is on a Sonicwall Gateway AV product, from download.Spotifiy.com

Anyone else seeing this on Sonicwalls

@Reid-Cooper Not international yet UK only for now.