@jaredbusch LOL I prefer to drink my calories in terms of beer. Everything else is calorie free. I also have bubly, perrier and dasani

@wrx7m said:

@LAH3385 said:

We have Veeam Endpoint 1.1.2.119. How do we upgrade it to 1.5? Reinstall? Will that break the backup sequence?

I just ran the installer and it upgraded the existing installation, in place.

Just ran a backup and it completed successfully.

@momurda said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrx7m It was unplugged for the first 4 hours of today. powersupply unplugged, moved into my office as i gave user a new pc. Turned it on after lunch.

I am pretty sure that it uses the hibernation file, so it being unplugged wouldn't matter.

@scottalanmiller said:

Here is the blog response to that...

https://blog.linode.com/2016/01/29/christmas-ddos-retrospective/

This was really interesting.

It looks like we will be implementing Starship soon; integrating with our ERP system, "SouthWare".

http://www.vtechnologies.com/integrated-shipping-software/

It looks like garbage. Has anyone used it?

@scottalanmiller said:

Of course you can also say to the sales person "how did you get to a private number?" and demand an explanation of how they got your number. You are never obligated to listen to a sales pitch. Simply don't take the calls. And as the IT department, considering blacklisting vendors that pull that crap. Problem solved.

I can trace the calls back through the phone system to find out how they got to me. Sometimes it is random number pressing through automated menus but mostly it is the operators, but after repeated scolding, it has been a long time since they have done that.
I have added repeat offenders as contacts with prefix Don't Answer. I almost never answer calls from external numbers. Unless I am waiting for a call back from support somewhere. Sometimes that bites me and I get pissed when someone on the other end asks me if I am the person in charge of VOIP or toner purchasing. Don't call here again! Click

I would have liked to go a few years ago, but I have been bummed about their, what I would call, fall from grace in the recent past.

@scottalanmiller said:

The next three nodes are on their way now! The first three nodes were the SATA tier. We have an SSD tier coming now as well.

Ahhhh... to have a budget for such things must be nice.

@nerdydad I am interested in your experience with it.

I am starting the planning for migrating our on-prem Exchange 2010 server to a hosted solution. I have been leaning toward Office 365 for some time, as we have been using the pro plus subscription for the client side of things for a couple of years and have heard mostly good things about it for the Exchange hosting side of things. If other people have service providers that they think are way better for hosted Exchange, please chime in.

I also wanted to build a check list of things that need to be considered when migrating and running Exchange as a hosted service.

• I am currently using Azure AD Connect (was using dirsync) to sync AD user accounts and passwords for Office 365.
• What should I use for backup of the databases?
• Service provider to perform the migration?
• Do I need additional spam filtering/ AV?

Any other tips or suggestions that I should consider or plan for are greatly appreciated.

I am all for anyone who is the most qualified. I don't care about your background, race, religion, gender, etc. People shouldn't be chosen or excluded based on anything other than their ability to do their job well and their willingness to do it for the agreed upon wage.

I have to create a VLAN for an Ubuntu server running on ESXi 6 and wasn't sure if I need to create the VLAN tagging on the Ubuntu server's NIC, as well as the VMware vSwitch and physical switch or just the vswitch and physical switch. Anyone know?

@gjacobse I just updated my erx to 1.10.5

OMG. I feel dumb. LOL - But in my defense, you don't normally type into a drop down menu.

My favorite recordings of all pieces.

@NETS The summary of past discussions:

UTM is a waste of money
Use separate boxes for specific uses - Firewall, proxy
Use endpoint protections for AV
Don't log/block websites/categories unless it is to prevent malware (even then, use a service like Open DNS)

I don't necessarily endorse all comments

Edit- I almost forgot - The performance is almost always better when you separate the roles.

@gjacobse Ha! I had forgotten about lightscribe. Made me think of an even more obsolete optical technology that I used to love- MiniDisc.

@MattSpeller I do like my Sophos too. Although, I am starting to see the benefit to having fewer things running on the same box. Troubleshooting might actually be easier. "Is it a proxy issue or firewall rule? Could be either."

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

More printer issues this morning.

Printers are the bane of my job.

My Veeam server is a VM and I use a Synology 1813+ with 8 4TB Seagate Constellation HDDs in OBR10 as a backup repository. With Veeam 9, you can create the scale-out backup repository that allows you to add several device types and combine them into a single repository. I would not run Veeam on a physical server.