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@scottalanmiller OOoooooh ok, We'll check both out
Thank you Scott!

IT dashboard like these: https://blog.dataloop.io/2015/09/01/dashboard-examples-ops-dashboards/
We'd just like to have it show us our bandwidth usage throughout our different offices, give us alerts if a server can't be connected to, we'd also like something with a phone app so we can monitor and get notifications remotely. Sounds like fun trying to setup something like this! (aside from my ever growing number of tickets)

I've heard Nagios is an absolute pain to setup, though it is free so there's that

I've been playing this Kairosoft Tennis Simulator game on my phone lol.
Check out Kairosoft games, they're a blast!
Made for Android and Apple phones.

Hi everyone,
I'm looking for a paid or free IT Dashboard. We're looking to set one up in the near future. We're thinking something to monitor everything in our network. (So tired, just going to hit submit now)

At the moment me and the wife have been playing Diablo 3 RAS. We beat the game together, but now we've both been playin' solo, she wants to beat the game herself and as for me, I love leveling a new character with set gear once they hit 22 and while being paragon 122

@Dashrender What's weird though is I've gotten them to work here and there despite using msiexec. BUT then I changed some things around (added spaces....spaces make life hell but I wanted to see if I had to use " " around the path or not...utter failure, upon changing things back....I broke the installs)

But yeah, I'm happy
Now I just need to add what I've figured out to the other programs, which a few auto-activate lol, testing will have to be live.
Ugh then I have to make more deployments for our Autodesk products, which actually isn't that bad..

I actually found out what my issue was, apparently you have to call msiexec first.
so msiexec /i <program.msi> /qn /norestart(only if there is typically a restart involved, like an antivirus program)
Yaaaaaaaay! lol.

@DustinB3403 @Dashrender
Those are really good ideas, thanks! I'm definitely curious about PDQ Deploy, maybe someday I'll actually be able to try it.... (81 tickets just in my name at the moment)

@Dashrender Well that would be wonderful if that was an option, we don't have a standardized specific machine that everyone in the office uses. There are Latitudes, Precisions, Dimensions, Micro form factor machines (for the receptionist and light users), older machines that we're slowly fasing out, Surface Pro 2, 3 and now 4s. So needless to say, drivers would probably be a major issue if we went with a one or even a few imaging system. Though there are very clear environments where that would and does succeed enormously.
MDT isn't slow at all actually, it takes less than a minute to start the process, though spending hours on something I know little about does certainly lower my morale haha. Information on installing from a DFS share is sparse, it seems most people have the applications on the server thus making things a lot easier I suppose. Not all machines are snowflakes, it's just that in our business, people have a preference for what they like to use... Some designers like AutoSprink while others (vastly most) prefer AutoCAD. Some like HASS (very few since it's incredibly dated), but others prefer other calculating program. Some up north need Navisworks Manage....others don't...a few need the gigantic Revit, others don't. I'm just trying to get the basics to install, then from there I can focus on the bigger, more specific programs to install.

@Dashrender Naaah MDT isn't like that... You check the box next to which program you want to install on a given machine. I'm a rookie with MDT basically....well at least with remotely installing applications from an NFS share on a separate server.

Will PDQ Deploy deploy operating systems as well? Does it support PXE booting?

Yeaaaaaaaaah I'd just call it pizza, I have never said it's <day of the week> pizza. Now, if somebody asked me when I bought the pizza, if it was on a Thursday............Then regardless of whether or not I ate the pizza the following Wednesday, it'd still be purchased/acquired on Thursday....
Thus I suppose if one names pizza by the day of the week it is, it'd be Thursdays pizza since the pizza was essentially born on that date.

@dafyre Well what defines complicated in this case? We just flat install Windows 10 Enterprise and deploy applications to a new machine, which at most will be three machines that I work on at a time (maximum amount I mean, but regardless).

@Dashrender It's not that simple unfortunately, we have TONS of different programs that go to various people. Installing a slew of programs silently and without touching is what we want.

@DustinB3403 Hmmmm I've never heard of that, time to google!
I might have to use MDT, we've already invested so much time into it. Though it has been a pain in the rear...I'd welcome anything more intuitive and convenient.

I need help with MDT deployments, more specifically with deploying applications. For some reason I keep getting errors, the only deployment that I have working is with Office 2016 and that one is much more complicated!
I have .MSIs' that should be extremely straight forward to install! They silent install for me when I enter the same darn command that's in MDT!
example... In MDT I'm installing an MSI from a remote server (our file server, Hyper-v, Server 2012 R2, It's hosted on the same network as the install I'm making), so I use \server-location-file\store\software\Trend_micro\Trend.msi /qn
Doing that in command prompt works just fine, though MDT doesn't like that! MDT installs while booted in the OS, so I fail to see why it can't do that simple command... That's just one example, the other is adobe reader DCs silent install .msi and the last one is BlueBeam Vu.

There are several other programs, but I'm trying to get the free ones working.
OH I did get AutoCAD working again, so there's that...which again is nowhere near as complicated as these simple MSIs' I'm trying to get to silent install.
Ugh. Can anybody help?

Oh oops, I thought something was physically removed from the Lenovo machines. Eh I never even read the news stories, just skimmed. It's disappointing regardless though, I used to like Lenovo a bit less than a decade ago.
I really liked how some of their laptops had keyboards that were easy to remove and plastic (or whatever) underneath them to protect the motherboard in case of a spill. The same particular model I liked had military grade plastic as well and was pretty damn strong. Albeit, this doesn't make for an awesome computer, but I did like how they design some models.
OOOOOHhhhhh just noticed an update for the Surface Pro 4 (and Surface Book) just popped up on Windows update! W00t! Let's all cross our fingers and hope it doesn't break more than is fixed! (lol)

@travisdh1 Oh wow, hahaha
That's pretty pathetic....

As far as Lenovo, that secret chip or whatever it was they sneaked into machines should have bankrupted them.... Though the reality is, it obviously hasn't done much. Am I missing something though, has Lenovo done anything more than the first incident I'm aware of?

The Surface Pro 3 and 4 have had so many issues in our organization... Problems mostly to do with display issues; though there are a ton of other issues too. With the SP2 and 3, we've seen numerous Wi-Fi issues, despite the machines being fully updated. With the SP3 we've seen the screen flickering issue still happen even with the latest drivers and updates.
But the Surface Pro 4....This machine is truly testing my patience. I am fully up-to-date, I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise, so we're just at build 1511 (10586) and the Cumulative update for 1511 (10586) just came out. I have the latest drivers from Intel, which are unsigned by Microsoft and had to be installed manually.
While docked, the monitors will be turned off when I have to step away to assist someone in the office (or for whatever reason), most of the time when I come back, I hit a key to wake up the computer.....only to find that the SP4 screen comes on and not my 2 U2415s. This has been happening since I first got the machine, to fix it, I simply used to be able to just unplug the mini-dock cable and plug it back in and POOF! Everthing goes back to normal.
I've also had a couple of Blue Screens that have since not happened (updated drivers, removed display driver and reinstalled a few weeks back)
The hot bag issue is definitely still happening....
Where is Microsoft? Is the company that cocky that they won't lose people that they just sit on their hands? Or are they truly working on these issues alongside "...3rd party companies..." like they say... (Don't have the source, sorry hah)
I've been testing the SP4 before we roll them out to people in the field and to shareholders...we've given three out, so far so good, but I'm still a bit nervous about a full on deployment, especially if they have to dock.