Posts made by Rob Dunn

That's AWESOME - and congrats!

Now, for a Mangolassi Community request: Make sure you work in the word "Khan" somewhere in the interview, ok?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Rob-Dunn maybe my rules are just really basic or something, but they seem to work better in OWA than in Outlook, or at least on parity.

Actually, I should correct myself, I mean 'views' more than rules...I do some stuff with font styles, organization, etc. with the views...something that is not really workable in OWA.

By the way, that eM client is actually pretty nice! I just installed it on my home PC (IMAP access) for Google and Outlook.com addresses. It picked up all my Thunderbird configurations, calendars, address books, etc. with hardly any work.

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.

@scottalanmiller said:

I find Outlook proper to be unbearable. So many problems. And unless you are using plugins to expand it, ugh what a horrible idea, it doesn't seem to add any value over the web interface. But lots of downsides

Calendaring is pretty much useless in a collaborative environment, though. That's my biggest gripe with the web interface. If they could get that turned around, I would use that instead in a heartbeat. Also, if you're trying to work with rules and other customizations in the Inbox, OWA doesn't handle that very well.

You might be able to work some magic with Davmail Gateway and Thunderbird: http://davmail.sourceforge.net/index.html

I've used this before and it does work, but it's another moving part - - Outlook is obviously preferable since it just works with little to no configuration.

Awesome pic!

I wanted to post this here if anyone remembers eWoman (Rose) in the community. She and her husband are in financial straits due to her health right now and need some assistance - check out the post here: http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/889146-an-it-pro-in-need-is-a-friend-indeed-ewoman-needs-our-help

If you feel that you can help with any amount $10, $5, $1, whatever...I know it would really be appreciated. If you can't afford it or don't do that sort of thing, just some thoughts or prayers (whatever is your fancy) would be great too.

I know it can feel tacky to post something like this, but trust me, she and her husband really need the help.

Later everyone,
Rob

By the way - the latest update adds subcategories to custom forms!

Nice - big congrats!

You should really reformat that script - add some metadata for context based help, parameters, etc. - it would make it a lot easier to use.

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?

@JaredBusch
Yeah, when you name your server OS's with the same words - but in a different order, it makes searching quite difficult. SEO nightmare.

I'm a little surprised that Avast! hadn't included their mobile device AV in here as well...just a rambling thought....but, heck, free AV for servers? It's hard to argue with that.

@thanksajdotcom said:

If the solution to a problem is "don't reboot", that's a pretty sad solution.

This is counter to everything that we in IT stand for. Not being able to reboot would make me twitchy.

This had been my go-to home AV for my personal clients for awhile, but the reminder to register was too much for my users (I know, right?). So I would eventually end up giving them Bit Defender or Avira instead...

I'm going to try it out and see how it goes.

@thecreativeone91

Wow, now that's purty...!

https://www.avast.com/avast-for-business

Big news - it used to be back in the day, Comodo and Clamwin were your only options for free AV for commercial use - I think even Comodo stopped doing this at some point. The only other contender was MS Security Essentials for up to 10 nodes in an environment.

Now, I see this! I've not tried it yet, but, if you don't get nagged to hell (or asked to register every year on each device), this is indeed great news!

You can use the hell out of these sensors in no time flat.

Want to monitor a switch? Each port/graph type is a sensor...Exchange servers alone can take up to around 15 or so if you don't pare them back.

I like PRTG, and this is a step in the right direction, but they really need to reach back to their roots and bring out a Lite product that JUST does simple SNMP monitoring on the cheap.

@tonyshowoff

@tonyshowoff said:

Complement: @scottalanmiller has the sexist brain alive

He does?