Posts made by Nara

I have a love/hate relationship with that plugin. I've seen it slow down PCs and cause undesired browsing behavior. If a bank wants to do stupid things like that, it's time to phase in a different bank over time. SunTrust was a bank that I battled with.

Oracle makes Java. Many SMBs have Java.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

XP to Mint has a lower learning curve for many people than XP to 8. We tested it. Much easier.

thought of testing Linux Mint today. We still have issues that cannot resolve in windows 7, so we are using Win XP mode in virtual

You can run Windows XP on VIrtualBox on Linux Mint.

If you're going to run a VM, why not just move to Win8.1/7 with an XP VM?

Ah, the Blue Smiley of Death! I remember that from my Win8 beta days!

Sorry, but I've been away for a while. Are you still working on figuring out the issue, or did you move on to another product?

@scottalanmiller said:

Really only the paid for version of Untangle. I've used Untangle and it is a seriously weak product.

Only $50/month and you get content filtering, multi-WAN, IPS, antivirus, application-level control, bandwidth shaping, and more.

Are they even better than Randy's Donuts in Los Angeles?

@Dashrender said:

What's so bad about ADFS?

When you enable ADFS, Office 365 passes authentication requests to your infrastructure. It isn't a sync or cache. If your infrastructure is down, your clients can't authenticate. Sure, you can set up a multi-site cluster for ADFS to mitigate that issue, but the effort doesn't match the reward in most cases. Using DirSync, you can sync users and passwords from your AD environment with 365, so that users can login with the same username and password, though it isn't true SSO.

@Dashrender said:

@Nara said:

@Dashrender said:

Do you have a break down that you've done for another SMB that you can share (no names of course).

I could do up an environment-specific one, based on requirements. What level of uptime are you looking for, how many users are there, and how much email is there? Can the existing staff handle a fault-tolerant Exchange environment?

Level of uptime 99.9%, 90 users, how much email, External 1000 per day, Internal 1000 per day. No the existing staff can not handle a fault tolerant Exchange, nor do they want one.

Ok, so here's some numbers. I'm considering a basic 2-DAG member, 2-CAS setup for Exchange 2013. The prices are extremely generic, and your mileage will vary. Power's based off Georgia Power's commercial rates for 120 watts. Not included are any additional staff training hours for Exchange 2013, spam filtering, cooling, backups, support tickets, regular maintenance, or software assurance. For Exchange Online Protection for spam filtering, add $1 per user per month. Hardware is based off of guesstimated virtualized hardware resource consumption.

Item Qty Price Total
Exchange Server 4 $694.00 $2,776.00
Exchange CAL 90 $77.00 $6,930.00
Windows Server 4 $865.00 $3,460.00
Hardware Resources 1 $4,000.00 $4,000.00
Power 1 $271.21 $271.21
Planning and Setup Labor 30 $30.00 $900.00
Total $18,337.21
** 3 year term per user per month $5.66 **

This is for an environment with only basic fault tolerance. If you move to a more resilient setup with full redundancy and load balancing, the price will skyrocket.

@IRJ said:

Why not just make two GPOs and apply the User one to the User OU and the Computer one to the Computer OU? I generally separate them because I use User GPOs for certain things and Computer GPOs for other things.

This is the way to go. Keeping GPO and RSOP processing time to a minimum is key. If you have User GPOs applied to computer objects and vice versa, it requires just a bit more processing for the DC to generate RSOP. Keep it simple; keep it clean.

Will there be a OneGet -update function? If so, that would be beyond words.

@Mike-Ralston said:

I'd recommend pfSense. I'm only an intern level tech person, and I find it fairly easy to work with.

For a straight firewall, pfSense is good. If you're looking for something closer to a UTM, Untangle becomes a better option.

@Dashrender said:

@steve said:

I just tested it and am seeing the issue too. I will raise this with the developers.

See you're not crazy after all

Well, at least not in this case!

And Webroot's browser plugin's still giving it a yellow.

@garak0410 said:

The domain controller VM is now at 10 minutes for waiting for it to shut down. This point more now toward the host? Because it just isn't the file server now.

Hyper-V's a little slow, but it's not that slow. I'm still interested in seeing what the middle section of the disk part of Performance Monitor looks like. While CPU may be an issue, some of what you're describing sounds like storage latency. Do you have any snapshots going?

If you're a VP or C-Level, the line where you end and where the company begins really blurs. You become an extension of the company in a way. Sure, the pay's pretty sweet, but it comes with high non-monetary costs, like not having much of a life completely free from work.

Edited for spelling

And what is SDtray?

Expand the middle row and sort by total.

@steve said:

I just tested it and am seeing the issue too. I will raise this with the developers.

Thanks!

@steve said:

I just IM'd you the email address that you used to sign up. Is that one correct?

Yes, it is.