@scottalanmiller said:

Probably better to zero it out rather than deleting. Just good practice if nothing else.

What do you mean zero it out?

I am trying to clean up an old server that is low on disk space. When running TreeSize on the server I found this file. The last modified is 5/23/11. Is it safe to delete?

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

@technobabble said:

Last week I had some fireball whisky.

The cinnamon one? That one is pretty good.

Try Jim Beams equivalent. Fireball is the "cheap" stuff.

What is that called?

This is how I feel sometimes

@technobabble said:

Last week I had some fireball whisky.

The cinnamon one? That one is pretty good.

http://www.mandatory.com/2014/04/02/celebrities-who-make-the-same-face-in-every-picture/

@scottalanmiller said:

@IRJ said:

Ever see grass grow in the summertime in Florida? It rains daily and the grass grows ridiculously fast!

You would have to "print" daily

Not really grass. It's some creepy plant.

You know what I am talking about then...lol

Ever see grass grow in the summertime in Florida? It rains daily and the grass grows ridiculously fast!

You would have to "print" daily

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

@lance said:

@lance said:

@tobywells said:

@lance 2012 is still pretty poor compared to Unitrends and Veeam is my default choice for VM backup. BE 2014 is "imminent" but Im not even looking at it.

I had a feeling that this was still the case.

I think BE needs to stop the bleeding at 2012 and come out with a new backup product.

Yeah. It isnt always a bad thing to ditch an unrepairable sinking ship.

Microsoft has had to do this before (ME and Vista), just reinvent the product.

I'm not sure I agree that MS ditched Vista... Windows 7 as far as I could tell was Vista SP3 or was it SP4? In the end Vista was totally usable to me.

They "reinvented" it. They took all the focus away from Vista and used it towards Windows 7. Once they had Windows 7 down, they silently patched and fixed Vista

Symantec could learn from that.

@scottalanmiller said:

That probably means that people are not using calendar invites very efficiently.

I would say about 10 people in our company know how to send out calendar invites lol. There really isnt a need for it at our branches. There are only 4-7 employees at each branch

@Dashrender said:

The additional things like Link and Sharepoint, etc can really make O365 worth while to those who already have an Exchange environment, but you really need to USE those things to make it pay off.

I got a ticket from one of our branch managers the other day. She said she needs a calendar installed on her computer....

SHE HAS BEEN USING OUTLOOK FOR YEARS and didnt even know it had a calendar

@Dashrender said:

@IRJ said:

Take away her admin rights....problem solved

Please explain how you think this would help?

That being said - she never did have a virus or malware (many other users do/did). and Local admin rights was required by our EMR vendor (same as now, but now I'm learning how to get around the need for local admin rights to install ActiveX controls).

You have to look at what is the same between PC swaps

1. The end user
2. Whatever files you have migrated over

More times than not, Number 1 is the problem. They dont have to have a virus per say. They might just love to screw around and know enough to be extremely dangerous

@Dashrender said:

My boss hates, just down right hates reoccurring charges, no matter what they are for.

Considering after the initial investment into Exchange there has been very little if any additional outlay of cash to support it, moving to O365 would be a non starter until we have to replace the server it goes on. And even that's not a fair situation because currently our VM host has 3 other servers running on it with Exchange, so the upgrade would be for more than exchange alone.

We shelled out nearly $75K over 3 years for 85 users for Office Pro Plus and Exchange. Not counting the hardware (which we already had). O365 with local Office would have been ~$61K for those three years, then another $61K for the next, where our second 3 years will cost us around $25 for the SA renewal. I realize all of the other benefits to O365, and I probably would have pushed for it back then, but alas, we are where we are now.

All that said, if O365 was around (or at least a lot more known) when we moved to Exchange 3 years ago - there's a good chance I would have tried it at least (biggest concern is accessing other people calendars in cached mode).

I share many of the same concerns as you. Our Exchange project only cost around $20k for 250 users which includes our SpamTitan Filter too. Granted we already had room for growth in our virtual environment.

I prefer Crown

Its much quicker to move you mouse to the right corner of the screen of the second monitor rather.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

Funny my boss wants the exact opposite. she does not want the charms bar to open on the edge that is shared by the two monitors.

I don't want them to open anywhere. I loathe the charm bars. Worst idea ever.

I really find the charm bar useful. I think I use it much more often than I use the Start button or windows key. The search feature is invaluable to quickly access applications

Take away her admin rights....problem solved

I installed the Google Voice extension on Chrome. It works fine, but It gave me a different number. So now I have to give everyone a different number

@lance said:

@IRJ said:

Doh! I should have rebooted before I posted

Its fixed now.

That was easy

You can close this ticket, Lance