99.5% of our Vertical applications are internally developed.. while not opensource the support is no different. We can't go to anyone else for it. We can't blame anyone else. We actually have less the open source, we can't google solutions and we can't search/ask on forums.

Seems rather pointless. too slow.

@DustinB3403 said:

has posted why / when businesses choose Open Source over closed source.

Closed/Open source is never the determining factor when choosing a solution. You have a business need and you fill that with the best solution that makes business sense. Opensource or closed source doesn't really play into it unless the goal is for customization..

Of course I won't go into that, because it's often better to make your own solution than highly customize a pre-made one.

@Dashrender said:

Dustin, you also mentioned that SMBs can probably suffer a 4 hour outage but a large company can't? Maybe that's true, maybe it's not. Again depends on the situation.

We had a four hour outage from the DC to All South Carolina and Indiana Locations last week. It was because of a backbone failure. Four hours is a pretty quick repair.. Yes it costs us hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost revenue. But to have the infrastructure to prevent that kind of very rare outage all the time would cost us far more. It's a solely a business decision, not an IT one.

@Dashrender said:

Finding a solution that provides what you need. For the SMB, that generally means a complete full product - rare is the situation when and SMB is going to code anything themselves - or outsource to have it done.

Outsourcing Application development is probably one of the worse decisions you can make. You get locked into something that will never be updated and no one can really support. If you don't have a in house development team custom applications are not the way to go.

They really need a tool to handle this.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Lakshmana said:

@scottalanmiller Whether the Cell phone has to be rooted to do the swapping

Depends on the phone, I suspect.

Are those apps malicious I wonder like a lot of the flashlight and battery android apps?

We name ours based on Business unit, geographic location, then function and then staring with 01 and going up for each of the same function at the same location.

so a SQL server in LA, for the fake business united called Sam's Mart (okay just copying Sam's club/walmart for this example) might be

SMLA-SQL01

Really sites that just ping aren't so great at detecting issues. You can have many outages, when a ping will still work. Not saying thats all any of these do, just saying watch out for services that only do that as it really provides you nothing.

@MattSpeller said:

@Nic said:

@quicky2g said:

Maybe I should move to Colorado and work for Webroot...

http://www.webroot.com/us/en/company/careers/

https://hiring.accolo.com/jobs/Broomfield/Colorado/Network_Engineer/386572935/job.htm

Yeah we're hiring a lot of people at the moment!

Usually a good sign

Cloudatcost was "hiring" too..

@Dashrender said:

And assuming that doesn't matter, you can only edit them using a GPO client that understand them, which I know 2000 didn't.

You use RSAT then. Even a Linux Domain controller can do a GP central store. It is just a file share nothing more.

@JaredBusch said:

WTF is X OS

A horrible shortening of Xen orchestra ?

So I have two Cable modems, one is an old one and one is newer both are tied to the account but only one is active.

They say the old one is mine but the newer one is theirs. I have amazon orders for both of them. I'm trying to remove the newer one as I'm transfering the account to someone else and letting them have the old modem and I'm taking the new one with me..

Problem is Comcast won't let me remove it. They say I must surrender the modem at their customer service center or face a $300 charge for un-returned equipment. So my only option is small claims right? well no. I have no options. Comcast service agreement states you can not sue them for any reason, aside from a class action. And that they have the right to sue you for any reason.

@lhatsynot said:

Or can you provide them with the amazon orders that states the serial numbers therefore proving that you ordered them?

They said they don't care because it's listed in their system as comcast owned. Yet I've never paid for it monthly or anything. suddenly they think it's there's.

@JaredBusch said:

@Jason said:

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

The only thing you could do is redo AD. Microsoft documentation uses ad.domain.com in their examples for this reason.

He had asked me about this offline and it appears, from our brief conversation, that the only impacts he is seeing is that he needs to manually put in external addresses into DNS (like www.mysite.com) so that it will resolve and the default domain points to the DC, not the website. As long as users are okay with that one URL not being usable and he's okay with the small amount of manual DNS entries, it looks like that is his only impact and he is fine not changing the domain at this point.

Unfortunate and not best practice, but it appears that the issues are minimal and his best option is to just remain with it as it is at this point. Not worthy modifying the domain now.

Correct, Really it is just that users will have to be trained to enter WWW in front of domain.com to get to the website. All links to the website will have to explicitly use www or it will fail.

You can also setup IIS on DCs to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com if you need to.
I'm glad we don't use the same one internally and externally.

True, but that is just another role to deal with on the DC that does not need to be there.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to deal with it but, I don't like doing split dns either.. just use ad.domain.com solves a lot of the issues.

@Dashrender said:

But the original code is transmitted to or from Google. So if the connection is hijacked from the beginning, the hijackers can have that code and put it into their own GA and it will give them the same results.

Over SSL.. Texting does not have encryption.

@Dashrender said:

I'll definitely give you that - but then you're still at the single device problem. Logging in from a phone, and getting a text message on the same device.

Same Device isn't as big of a deal.. It's more of same method of access. EX: Email is a back door to most accounts, if you have the email you can reset anything. So using the email as a place to send the 2FA login codes is just not a good idea.

This is horrible. If they paid for it they should have admin rights.. Nor should the schools image be applied to it.

MDM for some security and enforcement of AV Fine. They should use the computers to RDP into something owned by the school.

Any ideas what would cause this? One end connects the other end doesn't want to yet it can ping the other, and the user/pass and permissions are correct.

Peer that connects

Peer that won't

@LAH3385 said:

@Jason We try to minimize spending in Q1 and Q2. Q4 is spending spree month for me

Weird. We try to balance it over the year so we don't have too much spending in one quarter. That would also look bad on Quarterly reports to shareholders. But, we don't budget things that are only $600 if it's a one time expense.