@g.jacobse said:

@ajstringham said:

@g.jacobse said:

Previously I had the iPhone 4,.. not compatible with O365 and the new OWA software.

So now I have a 5c and when I enter my UID and Pass - it fails. I can't see it being due to my MX record not pointing correctly,.. but I've tried both [email protected] and [email protected]. Both directions fail.

What would cause that?

If you're using Office365, what is your server address? It should be outlook.office365.com and smtp.office365.com for SMTP. Can you verify these?

Good question on teh server address.. I've searched for that a few times over the last month and have yet to find out.
As for what type of account was created - Not sure what you mean there... @scottalanmiller and NTG got me set up with my organization on O365.

Right, but when you're choosing an account type, there is usually an option for Exchange and/or ActiveSync. You want to make sure you create that type of account. Don't use IMAP, or it won't work right.

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham what kind of stuff were they asking? I have not done an HR-first interview in forever. For the past dozen years I do tech and management interviews and HR only gets involved after I have been made an offer. Thanksfully, once you get to mid-career level, HR isn't really involved in the hiring process anymore.

To be honest, I don't remember. The recruiter said the other candidates they've hired didn't have this interview, and that I was the first, so he didn't know what to expect. It didn't feel well planned on his part, and he was 15 minutes late calling me because he was having phone issues in the office. So...it was just not smooth is all I can say.

Also, what type of account are you selecting when you create the account?

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

Going to lunch in a little over an hour. Phone interview at noon.

With.... Spiceworks?

Nope. Different company.

You are a busy bee.

Interview didn't go well. The person interviewing me wasn't asking good questions, and it was awkward answering them. I felt like a stammering monkey half the time. That was the HR interview though. Tomorrow morning is my Skype interview with the technical person. I'm hoping that goes better.

@g.jacobse said:

Previously I had the iPhone 4,.. not compatible with O365 and the new OWA software.

So now I have a 5c and when I enter my UID and Pass - it fails. I can't see it being due to my MX record not pointing correctly,.. but I've tried both [email protected] and [email protected]. Both directions fail.

What would cause that?

If you're using Office365, what is your server address? It should be outlook.office365.com and smtp.office365.com for SMTP. Can you verify these?

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

Going to lunch in a little over an hour. Phone interview at noon.

With.... Spiceworks?

Nope. Different company.

@Dashrender said:

nope

Ok, so no signal conflict. This is quite perplexing.

Going to lunch in a little over an hour. Phone interview at noon.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham said:

@DenisKelley said:

@ajstringham said:

Considering AD has almost zero system load, is there really any reason to separate out AD from the file and print services? If anything, use the license of Windows server you would have used for File/Print on a secondary DC.

Yeah, little load, but rebooting is a likely candidate for separating the roles. A second DC is a good idea, but we don't know how large this company is.

A second DC is always a good idea. It's never really "should I have two DCs?" It's "when should I add a third?" Why is rebooting an issue? It's not like you'll be doing that during production time. It'll be during off-hours. Also, he said it's for ten counties, or more. I still say have your main DC with File/Print on it. Use the next license for your secondary DC, and go from there.

Sure a Second DC is great but, it only provides a active backup for data. It's not going to be handing out DHCP/DNS on the network (or at least not on the same subnet) so their will still be down time.

It would be great if issues only happen after hours when no one would be bothered by them but in my experience they happen during the day. You don't want to have to restart your DC because of an issue on your file/print server. Sometimes printing issues require the server to be restart to fix not just the services. Are you going to tell the CEO he has to wait til the next day to print his golf dates because you didn't separate out the DC & File/print services? Remember in a organization with AD implemented well many if not most things will authenticate against the domain. not just the local login. You have to plan for issue that will occur, it's just when.

Fair enough. I guess it goes back to the size of the organization, and how critical uptime is. No one likes downtime, no matter how brief. However, it's certainly true that it's more acceptable for some companies than others, and in different lengths.

Watching One Piece.

@thecreativeone91 said:

Did the headset have a good charge?

Fully charged. I thought of that too. It's not a power issue.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Totally found a 150PSI air compressor at the dump today. Replaced the one missing screw and sold it on Craigslist for $95 today.. Score!

Um, cool.

Agreed. Random, but cool.

@DenisKelley said:

@ajstringham said:

Considering AD has almost zero system load, is there really any reason to separate out AD from the file and print services? If anything, use the license of Windows server you would have used for File/Print on a secondary DC.

Yeah, little load, but rebooting is a likely candidate for separating the roles. A second DC is a good idea, but we don't know how large this company is.

A second DC is always a good idea. It's never really "should I have two DCs?" It's "when should I add a third?" Why is rebooting an issue? It's not like you'll be doing that during production time. It'll be during off-hours. Also, he said it's for ten counties, or more. I still say have your main DC with File/Print on it. Use the next license for your secondary DC, and go from there.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@Dominica said:

@scottalanmiller No, he meant to say "Biscotti's"

Ah possession.

The non-demonic kind. Lol

@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham said:

One server for AD AND F&P would be fine. When you say spring for 2v4 VMs, are you talking about Windows Server licensing? Why use Hyper-V? Use VMware. However, that being said, if you do use Hyper-V, spring to have up to 4 VMs so that you have room to grow, should you need it. Maybe it's wasted, but the wiggle room is never bad to have.

I personally would seperate out your domain controller and your File/Print Server. I would keep an AD server just being a DC only. and use another vm for File/Printer if budget allows.

Nothing wrong with using Hyper-V over Vmware it's a personal decision, choose what fits the business needs and you like. Remember you have to deal with managing it. Given all your hosts are windows I see no real disadvantage from what you've listed as needs with using Hyper-V.

Considering AD has almost zero system load, is there really any reason to separate out AD from the file and print services? If anything, use the license of Windows server you would have used for File/Print on a secondary DC.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@ajstringham said:

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

One word: Biscottis...'nuff said...

Biscotti is already plural

I was speaking of a restaurant, not an item. Lol

http://www.biscotticafe.com/

And they didn't change their favicon from the default joomla one...

They have, by far, the best deserts in the world. Their fruit tarts would make me happy as a last meal...

@DenisKelley said:

Thin clients are in no way dead. VDI has its place, but it doesn't eliminate RDS. A good box should be able to run many many VMs. The only thing that might affect your decision would be the SQL ones. Licensing and if the app that runs on that system likes to play well with others.

Be careful about running Office with RDS. There are additional, crazy licensing limitations that you'll need to address if you do it.

Lastly, don't forget backup.

Ok, then I misunderstood or misread something. Good to know. As far as performance, yeah, SQL is gonna be the determining factor. Especially since you said you have two SQL instances, that's gonna be a bit of a resource hog. Your disk IOPS are also something to consider. Then again, if you run it all on one physical box with VMware, it's the same, except you aren't running VMs on top of Windows. It's a true hypervisor that way.

Also, in regards to the Office, licensing is one dragon to kill. The other is performance. You have thin clients setup or whatever and you have Outlook? Yeah, that slows WAY down...ask Danielle about a certain client in Carrollton that does that. Right @Minion-Queen ?

@Dominica said:

@scottalanmiller No, he meant to say "Biscotti's"

Yeah, my bad.

@Dashrender said:

@ajstringham said:

The reason I ask is that I've seen where, if the dongle is physically blocked by an object, the connection weakens and you get intermittent typing and sketchy mouse use.

I've had it in both the front and the back.

Mind you, a month ago it worked more or less great, just in the past week, the Mouse has gone crazy unusable, and the keyboard from annoying to unusable.

Odd question. Have you deployed any other wireless Logitech products in your office in that time?

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajstringham said:

One word: Biscottis...'nuff said...

Biscotti is already plural

I was speaking of a restaurant, not an item. Lol

http://www.biscotticafe.com/