Posts made by wrx7m

@Dashrender I guess I got confused when everyone was crapping on them due to the acquisition by LMI.

@scottalanmiller said:

@wrx7m said:

In terms of spiceworks, it does have sections for price paid, purchase date, warranty scanning for some devices, etc. So it has a little of asset management built into it.

Yup, works great for currently used assets. For historic tracking, though, it requires database sprawl in the monitoring system which is generally not ideal.

Yeah, that is definitely true. "Retiring" assets is cumbersome and not at all intuitive.

@Dashrender I thought it was managed on the back end on their site. Guess not. That's why I asked.

@JaredBusch Thanks! I don't know why I didn't think about the mklink aspect. I have also searched for ways around this for quite some time.

Right, but presumably, there is less risk associated with me having the control over decryption capability, would that be correct or am I missing something?

I have the Note 4 (Verizon) and am on 5.0. I would love to move to 5.1 and was thinking of the Note 5 prior to its release until it was confirmed it was a sealed back with no SD card slot. I wonder if enough other people care about this anymore or this will be the trend. Those are two reasons I don't like the iPhone (there are many others).

So it boils down to what the Note 6 will be like or if there are any other great phones with similar features and better specs coming out this year.

Are you sure your profile for the domain admin user is just not corrupted?
Is this the only DC for this domain?
If so, this is a prime example of why you need more than 1.
If not, does this occur on other servers/systems when trying to login with the same account?

I am still using keepass (for about 10 years). I use a master password and a key file. I have the encrypted DB file synced across all my systems and mobile devices using dropbox. Being that it is encrypted prior to being synced and stored "in the cloud", does this present a problem?

Kicking myself for not realizing that I had left out an important firewall rule a few months ago when I setup my new Sophos SG 210. I setup NTP rules from various WiFi networks' VLANs to my DCs but forgot to allow the DCs out on UDP 123 to get to an external time server. I was wondering why everything was off by a full 2 minutes. Once I tried to /resync on the DC, it didn't work (no time data available), down the rabbit hole then I checked the firewall logs and noticed blocking of 123 from the DC. Added that rule and everything is good to go.

Face palm.

If those things probably aren't something I, as an IT guy, should worry about, I will just put a pin in it in case it comes up in the future.

I figured that our accounting department must be doing something based on POs in terms of when things were purchased and which person/department was using them.

In terms of spiceworks, it does have sections for price paid, purchase date, warranty scanning for some devices, etc. So it has a little of asset management built into it.

Thanks to everyone for the replies. I looked at the snipe-it website before posting and liked the idea of the check in and check out setup for items that are issued to people like laptops and smart devices. I was thinking that if it were something I should be doing, I would also track things like monitors and my shoretel phones.

I have been seeing some posts on here regarding Snipe-IT. I am interested in it but currently (and for the past 5+ years) actively/passively use SpiceWorks for inventory. I am the only IT person for an SMB of 85 employees and all sorts of servers, desktops, laptops, mobile devices, printers and all the stuff that goes along with it.

I am only using SpiceWorks for network connected devices that it can scan. Everything that can't automatically be scanned isn't really "tracked" other than a PO with an invoice in a crude FileMaker database with a person's name next to it. Honestly, I haven't even tried to manually enter in assets to SpiceWorks.

Would there be a benefit to use both? Or move from SpiceWorks to Snipe-IT? Or Do everything in SpiceWorks? I do like the automated scanning aspect and the remote agent for laptops in SpiceWorks. BTW, I also use Meraki MDM for mobile devices asset tracking.

What do you think?

@FATeknollogee Thanks.

@FATeknollogee Thanks! I would appreciate that. Where else have you been looking?

Guess I will cross-post on SW.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1368875-vcenter-server-6-on-windows-2012-r2-backup-using-veeam-8

I guess I was thinking more of a power/climate and fire/flood perspective for up time. I don't like to travel or drive outside of my local area (LA traffic is the worst). But I may just look at offloading some things to VPC and more into Veeam Cloudconnect.

Does anyone know anything about ISWest? http://isle.net/colocation/

@anonymous Warm(?) I would kill two birds and have an ADDC there, as well as some minor things, depending on latency and also replicate backups from VMs, both ways.

@Jason That is a good point. I do use Amazon S3 and Glacier and am looking into Veeam Cloudconnect.

I have about 25 and go with a basic two letter followed by a two digit number. So for domain controllers, it is DC01, DC02, etc. For File/Print, it is FP01, FP02. I also have boxes that are "IT only"; things like spiceworks, prtg, WDS/MDT, Veeam, etc and each of those servers gets IT01, IT02, IT03, etc.