That much I knew, however if there are 60 users and 20 want to use the product, is there a way only to let the 20 have access and of course be licensed to their RDP desktop?

Thanks everyone! I found Office Standard 2010 on one of the servers. It says its not activated. I am sure it can't be activated because you can't run Office Standard 2010 on a server. It seems that it is fully functional and has been in use by RDP users.

So my question is, if I want to provide x amount of users that RDP into the server access to Office, is this possible?

Looking for tool to do an internal audit of Microsoft licensing for a client. What do you guys recommend.

@scottalanmiller said:

Use SSD no matter what. Best investment for a desktop.

The last SSD I used died a horrible death 2 months ago. It was less than a year old. Many times a day it would show 100% disk usage and my PC would come to a crawl. I am guessing that I just had a lemon.

Thanks @alexntg

That's pretty cool!

@JaredBusch said:

@technobabble said:

The silent partner is becoming involved.

@technobabble said:

The stakeholders are here are just the small business owner.

These two statements do not jive.

Crap...you are correct sir, he's not so silent anymore. Thanks to all of you peeps, I was able to bring something new to the table. We'll see if they are interested in protecting their business or just moving servers out of the office.

@scottalanmiller Noted!

W7 VM for data recovery.

W7, Vista and XP VMs, also need XP to recover my Office Accounting 2007 data

VM to setup and check out Mint.

VM for a Virtual Lab for testing Server 2012r2 (Can you run VMs inside VMs with their own Vnetwork?)

The stakeholders are here are just the small business owner.

I am tired of having multiple PC's in my home office mucking up my desk and making it harder to work on client's PC's. I was looking at a Asus with i7 32GB RAM and 1tb drive. The goal was to have VM's of earlier versions of Windows and be able to use one of them for Data recovery if possible.

Would I be better off with a workstation using Xeons? I want my daily use of the PC to feel as if nothing else is happening while running the VMs.

Youtube Video

@JaredBusch said:

@technobabble The .com site is for their new paid services.

Ah ha...there is some madness behind it all. Perhaps they will catch wind on this thread and add the link from the .com site to the .org site making everyone happy!

According to WHOIS .com was created 4.29.02 by [email protected] and the .org was created 3.03.06 by [email protected]. They would have been better off forwarding the .com to .org. Plus the Google could penalize them for duplicate content (design doesn't count).

I used to love watching the Voice and fast forwarding through American Idol just to see the performances. What I really really miss is So you think you can dance. I don't even know if its still on.

Since my Android had Flash, I downloaded Dolphin browser so I could finish all the Stargate episodes on Amazon. Wasn't too bad, but definitely not as nice as watching Netflix. Started watching the Stargate episodes on Netflix but they lost them to Amazon!

@Dashrender

Great example of how small businesses think and work. In this case, both Docs and the Billing Company that is providing the Docs the software have never seen data lose nor technical failures. I am drafting a letter to the client to get them thinking about the future of the business.

@alexntg said:

@technobabble said:

I understand. If anything goes down, the company and doctors can't work. However it hasn't happened yet and therefore it is considered back burner stuff. rolling eyes. They provide the program over the internet and yet they still haven't allowed a secondary/backup ISP. We have a dual Wan router ready and waiting for the backup internet connection. Of course if they move to the data center, then it will have the ISP redundancy.

Let me rephrase. I can't go further until I have RPO/RTO info. It's impossible to spec out the appropriate equipment for the project until I know what it needs to be built to. It's a 10-minute conversation that you need to have with management.

Got it. I am waiting for the client to reply.

We cut the TV/Cable cord in October 2011. Netflix and Amazon Prime takes care of 95% of what I want to watch.

I love Netflix, I am watching Supernatural on Netflix now. LOL...and then the internet went out for 10 minutes while I was attempting to post this at 2:30am!