Thank's Tim. Definitely interested in what your friend uses. The Samsonite looks pretty good, but I'm not sure it would be big enough to hold what I need. I do like the fact that it retains a professional look which is nice. It's a fine line between rugged toolboxes that are used by construction workers, and a more high end professional/leather looking bag.

Again, I might have to end up with two different storage solutions. One bag for laptop, and the Pelican box I mentioned above. The main reason I like the pelican is because the modular compartment design, but it's also somewhat overkill because it's usually used to protect expensive equipment (cameras/lenses/etc) and I would be using it for my drill/patch cables.

Hi guys,

Currently I have an old Lenovo laptop bag that's stuffed to the brim with screw drivers, portable HDs, flash drives, tone generator, patch cables, etc. and I have to spend considerable time digging through my bag to find what I'm looking for. Each day I look at my schedule and try to bring all the tools nessecary for the day.

I want to come up with a solution that will allow me to keep my patch cable inventory, tools (screw drivers, drill , drill bits, zip ties, network toner, etc) , equipment in my car at all times. I would still have a laptop bag, but it wouldn't be storing anything more than a laptop, charger, & maybe a 20' ft patch cable.

I was thinking of something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EGDWFQ8/ref=psdc_3345931_t3_B017VCBHZG

The problem is, I probably couldn't store everything in one...might need a second one, and they are somewhat pricey, and I'm not sure two would fit in the back of my car (2016 Mazda 3 wagon).

I also thought of these:

https://www.uline.com/BL_8821/Divider-Boxes

Would be great for network cables, but it doesn't have wheels, making it harder to transport around a job site.

What do you guys use for storing your equipment/tools in your cars/vans?

Hi guys,

So one of my customers running Outlook 2016 connecting to Office 365 on a Windows 10 laptop has had reoccurring issues with profile corruption - apparently after doing some digging it's related to an autodiscover.xml file being modified with incorrect data from a some source which nobody has been able to identify (at least from what I've read). Ultimately this corrupt xml file leads to Outlook not opening.

Many seem to be having the issue:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_win10/outlook-2016-frequent-ost-corruption/591feedb-13c2-4389-826c-d7d28abbfd3a

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_winother/outlook-2016-corrupted-profiles-becoming-way-too/81fa4c8a-5957-4e68-bbcd-65663bb76907

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_outlook-mso_winother/office-2016-major-issues-with-outlook-not-opening/31178871-75b9-416a-9cb9-e506bc9f8680

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrZrySKbUTY - lots of people in the comments

When I first saw the issue I just figured "no big deal, profile corruption occurs from time to time," but when it happened the second and third time I knew something weird was up. What was also weird - the first time I created a new profile it went without issue for a few months, but the second time just a day. Apparently the issue is only effecting laptops and has something to do with going from one network to another.

From what I've read it isn't effecting Outlook 2013, so I rolled the customer back today. I just wanted to see if anybody has come across the issue, and if you have, how did you fix it?

Finally Microsoft is aware of the issue.

We're having issues,

I hate not being able to control things like this. It's so hard to tell a customer, "ehhh...we're just going to have to give it more time..."

@scottalanmiller Storagecraft keeps sending me notices on how their offering backup for Office 365. I never really thought it was warranted, but your example makes me think I should reconsider.

Question - do you think if I submitted a ticket using one of my 10 support instances (from my action pack) that I might get better/faster results than using the support from the office 365 portal? I'm guessing not, but thought I would see what everyone else thought.

Wow.....I've never heard anything like that. That's crazy.

Thought I would give you an update. I gave it more time, and still no dice. Called Microsoft yesterday evening. Said they would run some "provisioning scripts" on the back end and we would check in 24 hours to see if any change. Well, it's been 24 hours, and nothing has changed yet.

Thanks guys. I'll probably manually archive just a little more than enough to get mail flowing and then look tonight to see if later tonight things update. If not I guess I'll submit a ticket to Microsoft.

So after I made the initial change on Friday night, and didn't see any change by Saturday afternoon I tried creating a whole new policy with the same tags to see if that would help. Is there a chance by making additional changes I reset the 24 clock?

Hi guys,

I have a client who goes through a lot of email. They are in the insurance industry. This year one user went through more than 50 GB. Thank god for unlimited archive.

Anyways, her mailbox (E3 license)is full and can't send email. I updated her retention policy from default 1 year move to archive to default 6 month move to archive, but it's not applying. From running some power shell commands I can see her account is indeed using the new retention policy, but when I tell it to show me her current retention tags it's till showing default 1 year move to archive.

I've read in a few places it can take 24 hours for changes to propagate, while others have said a week. I ran the command that kick starts the Managed Folder Assistant for her account, but no change.

Should I try to manually archive and just give it time to see if the policy eventually applies? I originally made the retention change at about 7 PM on Friday night.

@JaredBusch I see what you mean. I initially wasn't even planning on having a secondary VM at all. At the last minute I figured in a pinch it could be helpful if for some reason I had to reboot the primary VM during business hours and users were trying to access their cloud services. And if I was going to have DNS on a secondary server I can't think of a reason to not do DC, because then you get the AD integration, and DNS can read/write instead of just read.

@scottalanmiller said in XenServer 7 Dom0 memory usage:

@frodooftheshire said in XenServer 7 Dom0 memory usage:

@JaredBusch Out of all the users only about 4 people are working off QuickBooks. The rest of the staff utilize an application that runs off the Cloud, so my thinking was - if there ever was an issue with the primary VM, the majority of staff would be able to continue working.

This is solely about DNS, though, right and not about QuickBooks?
Is there even a reason to have AD for QuickBooks, then?

I'm not sure I'm following you on your last question. They don't have AD for QuickBooks. They have AD to help manage users/computers/group policy/etc. This company has aprox 20 computers/users.

@scottalanmiller I thought it was against best practices to use outside DNS as a secondary? From what I've read, even though it's the secondary, you can have instances where DNS requests will try to go there first?

@JaredBusch Out of all the users only about 4 people are working off QuickBooks. The rest of the staff utilize an application that runs off the Cloud, so my thinking was - if there ever was an issue with the primary VM, the majority of staff would be able to continue working.

@JaredBusch Hi Jared,

Thanks for replying. My thinking behind the secondary DC was in case I had to reboot the primary VM, the secondary VM could at least handle DNS/login requests. As far as backup goes, the primary server is running Storagecraft Shadowprotect SPX with 15 minute continuous incrementals that get sent to a BDR box/cloud. SPX runs at a low level of the OS and doesn't know the difference between a physical & virtual machine, so it's able to make great backups.

@travisdh1 I'm somewhat confused about this because I have read it only has 756MB, but I've also read it can dynamically allocate memory. Also, if it's only 756MB why would XenCenter show that it has 1.3 GB allocated?

@scottalanmiller Cool. Just to play it safe maybe I'll take the primary VM down to 8 then. So far it's not even using 2GB of ram yet, but it's also only been up for today.

So I just finished setting up a XenServer7 with 2 2012r2 VMs over the weekend and in the last two hours I've become aware of some warnings from Xenserver in regards to low memory for Dom 0. The XenServer host is a Dell R530 with 16GB of RAM. VM1 has 12GB of RAM allocated because it's hosting QuickBooks Enterprise & Intuit recommends 8GB of ram, and I figured another 4GB because it's also the main file server, DC, DNS, DHCP, etc. The Second VM is secondary DC/DNS server and I initially configured it with 2 GB of RAM. I figured this would leave 2GB total for XenServer.

Eearlier when I become aware of the issue, XenServer was at 98% of it's allocated memory. I adjusted the secondary VM down to 1GB of RAM to see if this would help. It didn't, but I also didn't reboot the XenServer as everyone is working. Possibly rebooting would have resolved the issue.

Now currently it's at 100.8 percent of it's allocated memory. I'm thinking the plan is to now wait until the end of the day (5 or 6 PM) and adjust the primary VM's memory down to maybe 10GB, and the secondary VM back to 2GB. That should then leave 4GBs free. From XenCenter I can see it's telling me that XenServer is currently using 1.3GB.

With those adjustments do you think I'll be okay or does it sound like I've got a bigger issue?

@MrWright4hire Awesome! I've been following this for a long time and I've been waiting for them to start selling units again. Just put in my order! I think it's an awesome deal.