@scottalanmiller as I found in our case, AD here was adding absolutes 0% while actually creating more of an administrative headache. 99% of our applications here are "in the cloud" (unlike my old company) and all the DC was doing was print, some file shares, and 1 or 2 group policies (that weren't even working right!). So moving to Teams (see post in other discussion) will alleviate the file share; may build a linux file server for 1 or 2 use cases where Teams/Sharepoint won't work. Group policies are unnecessary and worst case we can upgrade our licenses and go Azure AD/Intune if we need to. Printing, well its printing and it sucks but we'll figure it out. Best is the CTO and President are on board without so much as a blink.

@Dashrender That's what I have to play with as I'm not sure at the channel level how permission inheritance works

New job has me swamped. Going to get rid of Active Directory as one of the dc suffered a failure this week and executive management said "been meaning to do that for a while. You take the the project. What licenses do you need". No questions, not push back, just OK get it done. Good to work in a company where pretty much everyone is at least somewhat technical.

@gjacobse I am lucky that the new company rarely has to fax (though we often have to set up for customers) so glad to have dodged that bullet.

@Dashrender I am about to set up our corporate Teams as the mess I came into is, well, a mess. We've decided to essentially blow it all away, lock it down so users can't create teams on their own (yes, aware that Microsoft does not recommend this), and to use our org chart and set up Teams that way. So each part of the org chart (Finance/accounting, Sales, Operations, Order Management, Support, Marketing, Executive in our case) is getting its own team. Areas where we need inter-org collaboration (Such as our provision group which involves sales, operations and support) will also get its own team. All told there will be I think 15 teams the way I have stuff laid out. We're going to try it out for 30 days and see how it goes, tweak from there. One suggestion someone made is for the inter-op teams to be a channel intead; off one of the main org chart teams; not sure how well that will work.

@WrCombs yeah I need that

@WrCombs Yeah I missed both morning and afternoon coffee

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Learning about provisioning Yealink phones

#1 thing to know, keep the cfg files to only things you are changing from

Thaks for the tips!

Learning about provisioning Yealink phones

@Pete-S I have no idea why they moved. I guess the higher ups want to migrate? Cost I think is about the same. We are not self hosted only 15 users so far

New gig is using Bitwarden, converting from Zoho Vault

@EddieJennings Awsome, congrats

Starting my new gig today. Tech Support Engineer at 888voip.com

@Dashrender or Buffalo, NY where I am

@Pete-S We were in process with that when I left. We still have legacy VPN needs so were demo'ing a Fortinet solution uses Azure SSO that worked well. I had gotten Mimecast email services workign with Azure SSO as well; both using SAML.

@Pete-S Old job we used Azuer AD exclusively because we were already in that space; no need for a'Third party" provider. We did review Okta as it integrated with on premise AD, and liked it but why spend extra $$ since we had to get E5 licenses already for other reasons. If you have a lower license teir Okta may make sense as its I think US$6/user/month if I remember correctly.
Haven't started new job yet so I don't know what system they're using.

Turned in my badge and ID. 1 week of 'pto' before I start the new gig

Just cause I have it bookmarked https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mail-flow-best-practices/how-to-set-up-a-multifunction-device-or-application-to-send-email-using-microsoft-365-or-office-365&ved=2ahUKEwizrerqjez2AhVOjokEHT8MD6YQFnoECBAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3jyS62KZCuVCyOb0jGLpOn

@travisdh1 congrats

Put in my notice today with Ronco. Almost 20 years here but excited for my new opportunity.

@gjacobse True this was a week after the first call; my other interview with the local university it was only 2 business days between first and second.