That is just plain weird.

We are actually seeing more than more large Enterprise environments move to O365. For them it is a balance of staff hours to manage their internal needs versus cost. It is also less likely for them to be audited by Microsoft for Licensing violations etc.

there will be a bit of both group work and on their own work. Being able to do some project management for their group lab work is an important business skill no matter what you decide to do in life.

This is for whoever is looking we have had a couple IT pros ask to be included

I did connect my Surface to a 27" today for a bit via the USB-DVID adaptor. Worked very well and did use the Surface as one and the 27" as the second monitor. So I know it works very well.

The Surface Pro2 is anything but slow and unresponsive so far. I did a quick test of the first one and really disliked it as well.

Tested so far:

1. Office 365 installed very easy (as it should)
2. OneNote is really awesome as I can handwrite notes on it (think steno pad) with the included stylus. This will be really nice when walking around a clients building just taking quick notes. You can also use Notepad and there is an option on the keyboard to get lined writing paper that changes it to text.
3. Used LMI to work on my desktop works great, very little lag. Easy to use the stylus to move things around etc. the Stylus has a button that acts as your right click on a mouse.
4. CRM is awesome on here (FYI it is now awesome on IPad and Windows 8 desktop as well)
5. Using the stylus to convert to text works really well, and my hand writing is horrible.
6. Skype is pretty awesome too both camera and sound are really good.
7. Lync works great with the camera but the sound is choppy and digitized sounding. However with my Plantronics Legend UC via the USB dongle it works great, it didn't work great via Bluetooth though

You don't need the dock. On board it has 1 USB 3 port so you can connect a powered usb hub and to the USB to VGA adaptor via that. From what I am reading that works really well.

No it doesn't on it's own or with the dock. You can use USB to VGA or HDMI adaptors however.

Product Description

The Docking Station for Surface Pro gives you everything you need to get work done - a display port, an audio input/output jack, an Ethernet port, as well as a high-speed USB 3.0 and three USB 2.0 ports. Docking Station for Surface Pro includes four USB ports - one USB 3.0 and three USB 2.0 ports. Transfer large files to an external drive, plug into USB printers or headsets, charge multiple accessories, and more.

There is a docking station with a network port.

I just got a surface Pro 2 64 gig. And of course I got purple keyboard, ask anyone my team this is a big deal to me. So far I have to say I am impressed with it.
First let me say this is not my first windows Tablet, I also have a Dell Venue Pro that I find clunky and not really usable for much.
I also have had previous IPad's and currently have a IPad Mini and love it.
But I have to say this is less like a Tablet and more like a Laptop. So I will be doing more of a comparison with my MacBook Pro than with my tablets.

I have 2 chairs in my office. A cheap task chair from staples that I sit in most of the time and a very comfy Managers chair that I change out to from time to time.

I know GFI Max does this now. We have also used Backblaze as well for a few customers.

The intent:

1. Sharing knowledge
2. Promoting our Lab and the equipment we use from different vendors
3. Possible new employees (next generation minions)
4. Getting to play and some amount of torture

@dashrender you are welcome to join in the fun if you would like

Thats a great idea! Coming here for progress and for help.

I need to get an Intern course of Study down on paper for our high school interns to use as job experience and for college applications. Any suggestions of things to teach them, or how to notate what they are doing? They will be working in our lab environment and doing some promotion and learning using online communities and web based research to do some of their learning.

NTG is looking for 3 willing interns to work in our lab environment. We will be training in Linux, PBX and Windows environment's. Part of the training is learning to research out issues and help us promote the hardware and software we will be using in that project.

High school students, people outside of US and anyone willing to learn are welcome!

The one thing we find with a lot of SMB's these days is that they need to keep their licenses current. A good portion of them need to keep up with current versions for their cloud software compatibility, so buying a product card version every 2 years gets very expensive very quickly. We now have very few customers that have not moved to O365 due to the cost of making that investment on office not to mention combining that with their email costs. Having a small business with maybe a 1 man IT shop, running an internal email server just doesn't make sense for them due to time investment and initial cost investment and upkeep.