Well, if you are only doing non-fiction it might be worth it. Does it "cliff-note" them or something?

Furthermore, with several (maybe most) Synology models you can expand/add storage via optional enclosures that would be completely transparent to the devices you are presenting the volumes to. So it would not even need the Veeam scale-out feature to allow you to increase storage capacity.

@scottalanmiller said in Audible or blinkist?:

Audible is pretty awesome.

I have a decent library now. I have been using Audible for several years.

I am migrating my last physical file server to a VM and was wondering if there is a way to copy/preserve the volume shadow copies from the old box when moving to the new one. The only thing I see on MS technet site is noting the copy schedule to apply it on the new server. Nothing about actually preserving the copies.

Anyone know if there is a way to do this?

@scottalanmiller I love Mahler. The line up for the next several months for the Dallas Symphony looks awesome. Mussorgsky next weekend!

And this is a cool service -
https://www.mydso.com/about-the-dso/watch-and-listen

Interesting. I appreciate the creativity but this is also a DC that I want to demote and get rid of and in-place upgrades are pretty much the worst thing I could imagine.

I have two Dell R720XDs with redundant SD cards running ESXi6. I have two more R710s running 16GB Sandisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 Flash Drives, also running ESXi 6. I got them for three reasons- The had great reviews, they are cheap and they are tiny, which means they are a lot less likely to get knocked off or broken in the USB port.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820173033&cm_re=ultra_fit--20-173-033--Product

Cleared out some cache files and Battlefield 1 is performing much better now. I was about to get a new vid card.

There can be several reasons for this happening. Mostly, it is a corrupt user profile. You can navigate to the registry key and locate the user that has the .bak and rename it by removing the .bak

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

EDIT: LOL. Guess it isn't that...

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Brunch with the grandparents.

Wife's parents? JK

Maybe this could be of use. Although, I don't know what Windows does if it tries to login and can't and then can't create a temp profile.
http://serverfault.com/questions/309692/disable-temporary-user-profile-on-workstations-in-a-windows-2008-env

From the answer:
Use the group policy setting "Do not log users on with temporary profiles", to be found in Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Administrative Templates-> System -> User Profiles.

So I did a search and found that it will just log the user out if it can't load the profile.

Battlefield V - Completed the single player and started multi-player

@JaredBusch said in Printer GPOs:

@Dashrender said in Printer GPOs:

Registry Path: HKEY_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\LegacyDefaultPrinterMode = 1

WTF good is that? I hate registry. Why isn't there a GPO for that.

There is a GPO for that:

Circled back to try finalizing Apple DEP after 5 months. Apparently, account setup was never 100% complete. Although, I had a username and password and was verified by them over the phone after providing the D-U-N-S number for the company back then. I tried to login to business.apple.com with the info I had already used in July. Was denied with a message to the effect that I wasn't allowed to login because I hadn't set it up.

After calling support again, I was told that I still had to go through an older version at deploy.apple.com and go through some additional setup, only to have to wait up to 5 days for verification again. Also, you have to use several different email addresses. WTF? Why is this crap so complicated?

Title pretty much says it all. I am the sole IT admin and our HR Coordinator quit a month ago and my boss (Director of Operations and HR) will be on medical leave for a few weeks and he told me to get this started but haven't ever posted an ad before.

Thanks for any advice.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on a printer that isn't printing. I hate printers.

Said anyone who has had to support one ever.

He didn't say I couldn't spend money... so I am thinking I can. LOL

Looking into setting up QOS on Sophos UTM for VoIP. It looks a little more involved than I would have thought.

One thing I left out is that the package also includes Veeam One for monitoring your virtual environment and backups. I can't remember if they sell either separately or not. So keep that in mind when determining cost.