Best posts made by Rob Dunn

It's like the mechanic: "This guy brought me this car, and says there's something wrong with it." Then he asks his buddies, "how do I find out what's wrong?" His buddies say "ask the owner, they can tell you..." - so, the only useful answer here from us at this point is to find out what the problem is before you can "fix" this unknown issue.

In any case, those V1910 switches are rebranded 3Com tech - they are not very forthcoming with information if something is going wrong. They are the cheaper business line units.

Honestly, I would just export the configuration, reset it, plug into each port individually and perform some tasks like large file transfers, video streaming, chat sessions, etc. and keep an eye on the logs in the console.

If they can't tell you what's wrong, how can they expect you to fix it?

I dunno - the only issues I've ever had with Outlook has been bad or misconfigured plugins, and even that doesn't happen very often. I've had nothing but good experiences with it as an app. As far as how chatty Outlook/Exchange is, that's a different story, but nevertheless, I've hardly had any issues with it myself, or with any of my clients/co-workers.

If Exchange works, Outlook always seems to work IME.

I happened to notice this over at the Spiceworks Community for the past year - I'm not sure if SCCM is just being used more and more lately, or if more people who are using it are heading to the community to discuss it.

I've always been an advocate of it (so long as it works right). It's a convoluted beast to be sure, but very powerful. As such, I've been working with it in my home lab - the one thing I've never really done with SCCM was OS deployments, which prompted me to install it here.

Have you all been noticing a surge in usage, or is it because I'm interested, I see it more (kind of like when you're shopping for cars and all you notice are other people driving that car you like)?

@thecreativeone91 said:

Openfire. However because it uses XMPP it doesn't work as well as lync from two locations. For example with lync you could have a laptop and desktop and log them in at the same time and get the messages both places. Openfire doesn't do that.

You can, although it requires making a change on the server. We used it at my last job. We would have a person who could be at their desktop or mobile computer walking throughout the clinic and had to get chat messages wherever she was located.

Ah, here's the info: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/141087-two-openfire-clients-with-same-user-id-can-i-get-a-message-to-both-at-once?page=1#entry-774097

I've used these in the past:
CrystalDiskInfo: http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html (some of the versions have extra stuff...nothing awful, just a heads up)
Acronis Disk Monitor: http://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/hard-drive-health/

Not an expert, but can you explain what is going on, what your environment looks like, what you've done so far, etc.?

@dafyre

Well, yes, but I want to zoom in with Greenshot so I can annotate and obfuscate my higher-res/detailed screenies!

You really can't beat it for the price. Lots of features and they keep it updated and have great support.

You can also save your own credentials file - which means you can share your connections file with your team, but yet use your own creds with it.

@Lakshmana

Thanks Lakshmana! I know where to put the files, it's just that RSAT doesn't realize that they're there or something else is going on. The big variable here is that I'm running all of this against Linux and not a proper Windows DC.

I think what I should have implied was - to Windows should it not matter, or...?

If RSAT is pulling data from a Samba share, shouldn't Windows ignore case?

EDIT: After reading this I suppose this might depend on the share settings itself on the Samba side?

My co-worker fired this up the other day...while it has some potential, it's very limited.

I noticed that if you want to import your assets, make sure you have your columns (CSV import) in the right order. With that said, even that doesn't guarantee that you will get an accurate import. I had weird values showing up under the deployment status (this was the best import out of the few that I tried).

The imported file never really lets you know when it completes, which is kind of annoying.

There is no bulk delete if you need to clean up your inventory because of a botched import. So, you need to clean them individually. one. by one. So, I would suggest that you try to perform a bulk import of one or two devices.

Also, I would get a 500 error on invalid logons - not sure if that was how my co-worker had it set up, or if that was a bug.

Honestly, Spiceworks could probably do most of what this Snipe IT is trying to achieve (especially if you are importing and managing manual assets). With that said, I'd wager that Snipe IT would be more stable and responsive; I do like how SW allows you to create custom attributes to help manage each device, which really is the feature that I would need the most.

Needs more work, but it looks nice.

Nice! I just came off of working on an Event Log audit script that takes in some parameters and returns results from all my domain controllers. I'll share it here when done - so far that I've seen, it returns results fairly quickly (querying multiple DCs at once). Using Get-WinEvent with an XML or hash filter is super fast!

Looks cool - I'll have to try this out. For all the flashiness of the site (I'm guessing non-English speakers), you'd think there would a little more attention given to the grammar...some of the wording on the main page is...off.

Another cool thing that we're going to be doing, but not as a result of this infection, is evaluating and maybe implementing Cylance in lieu of Trend on our systems.

I'm not sure if it's appropriate to say, but their engine seems revolutionary.