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@DustinB3403 said:

@JaredBusch said:

@DustinB3403 said:

Q: I think my phone was stolen, can you track that?
A: No, no we can't track it, if we were tracking your phone you'd sue the crap out of us. . .

Correct Answer: Yes, it is a company owned device we have MDM software on it and I can tell it was last at X.

I say that because:

Does anyone else manage the cellphone plans and hardware for the employers?

That sounds like employer owned devices, not BYOD. BYOD is different.

Unfortunately, we'd have to have a very clear and strict Cell Phone Policy that has a clause for phone tracking. Which we have a phone policy but upper management didn't want, nor I to get involved with tracking phones. As it could get very messy, very quickly.

And I don't know about NYS law and tracking phones, even company provided ones.

Pretty sure you can just track it. If you are concerned with tracking company owned phones, do you fear tracking laptops too? If not, what's the difference?

@scottalanmiller said:

Applies to any blind swap system. "To you" the Lacie is hardware RAID...

http://mangolassi.it/topic/5872/how-to-replace-a-failed-drive-in-hardware-raid

I previously read it, the same day in fact that this drive started to have issues. It was very well timed reminder.

To really cut costs and meet your long term scale requirements....

Four of these WD Red 4TB drives coming out to $620

And this Dell R410 server: $800

You are looking at $1,419 to purchase and somewhere between $50 and $100 per month for hosting costs.

Your entire first year could cost no more than $2,019 and each additional year only $600 for a full 8TB of capacity in RAID 10.

@DustinB3403 said:

I think this ruling leans more towards, "You'd better follow best practices with regards to private client information (which isn't it all private), and if you don't and are breached, regardless of the cause you'll be fined for said breach."

Which is all good. Because it is qualified with "you'd better follow best practices".

@Breffni-Potter said:

@JaredBusch said:

@Breffni-Potter said:

Oh right, they did not even rename the installers? Sorry.

The OneDrive for Business executable is still Groove.exe, so is this really a surprise? That though has been changed long enough that the installer is different at least.

The backend says Groove as I said earlier, but how hard can it be to rename the installer?

Classic case of Marketing running down the road screaming about the new names when the tech guys are left behind wondering what to do.

Possible that things depend on the name and could break.

No app, but there is a mobile version of the site that loads automatically when it detects that you are on Android.

Yeah that didn't happen we had to go and pick up yet another consumer drive, this one at 4TB.

We're at least taking our backup now.

How long has the RAID been sitting? RAID 1 should not take very long, even with large drives, to sync up.

@DustinB3403 said:

How come my users never understand the simple things, like how to connect to the VPN. Launch the application, click connect, enter your password.

Probably because no one makes them. People rarely learn how to do things if they are not required to. Why bother if you can have someone else do it for you.

I support in many cases that it might be more efficient for some tasks, maybe not connecting to the VPN, be done by IT if they are not common or simple tasks.

The wife is whipping up bean and rice tacos!

Keep us posted on how it goes!

@dafyre said:

@scottalanmiller Virtual or Physical? If Physical, how did you handle the potential for Split Brain?

It was physical, but the split brain issue is the same.

You use a STONITH strategy and have a master site and do not fail back transparently.

Like the afternoon equivalent of a mimosa? Nice.

Windows 8.1 to a "normal" install. I left the update for her to decide when to install, but downloaded it.

Makes sense. I'm not saying that it is a good choice, but seems worthy of inclusion in an evaluation.