@scottalanmiller said:

The underlying driver in discourse in IT is for the purpose of improving ourselves, our profession, our business or our decision making and we must start with the assumption that doing this well is the goal.

I think that says it all. It is a little wordy, but not so much that it muddles anything... At least not to me.

@mlnews I downloaded it in a VM, scanned it with 3 different tools, opened it and scanned through it with mark1 eyeball, then cautiously tested it on a fully backed up system. ❤ VBScript.

@marcinozga said:

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We can also buy old NIMBOXX gear from sad guys managed to actually buy from AWOL company. People we'll help to everybody! We're not trying to rip off poor little souls who spend money on something already we can move on and do free StarWind on top of existing SuperMicro gear + VMware or Hyper-V. Just in case.

I am Starwind customer already. But due to some internal shenanigans, I was forced to replace it with SAN.

LOL It's a very small world 🙂

Got some good news for you: we don't do software only anymore rather we ship a) hyper converged appliances built on Dell and with VMware or Hyper-V inside and b) will be doing full-blown hardware storage appliance thing soon. VERY soon. So if need a SAN (...and NAS of course with a proper SMB3 stack and decent NFS) we can help. Good news: we'll give you a discount on amount of money you spent on software. Not sure about full refund (as we try to be very aggressive in terms of pricing) but very noticeable partial - for sure. Technically you'll just pay for OEM priced hardware from us. More good news: we can buy out your old SAN as well 🙂

Good luck! 🙂

@scottalanmiller said:

Yeah, the industry has put a lot of effort into all kinds of both software and hardware research based around a pricing model that has now changed.

The real lesson here is, as it has been many times in the past, that Windows is the wrong place to be making investments when you can help it.

I've been making money on tipping holes in MSFT product / licensing / marketing strategy since maybe 1998 but... You can make SOME money but it's very difficult to build a healthy growing company this way 😞 So SAM you're 200% right on this..........

@dafyre said:

So to get the Google Store, you have to root it and upload the Google Apps?

Correct.

I'm running LetsEncrypt @ my C@C Host. Works great so far!

@dafyre said:

Also, what happens if you right click on the game shortcut and tell it to run with the NVIDIA Graphics card?

Nothing. It acts like it will, but once MW fires up, it goes to the Intel HD device instead.

@LAH3385 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm not very adept at SMS use, but what about using email to SMS gateways so that on your side, it remains email and can be tracked via standard email tools?

That actually is what I am trying to do but a phone number can belong to any carrier. I want to know if there is a way to determine or a service that can provide SMSgateway per phone number.

You have to have your client specify their carrier if they want SMS. Make it THEIR problem if they want the feature. I know of no system that offers this without making the person that is signing up specify their carrier.

Tab Mix Plus

@flomer said:

Well, the main application itself, is a "server" that is started automatically as a service. It gathers data and performs calculations based on the input. Data may be exported, but not always, but stored in proprietary databases. The user interface comes up by way of Interactive Services Detection, and is a bit of a pain... The application is being rewritten as we speak and will use HTML and a browser for GUI in the next version. BUT, the customer is only allowing RDP traffic to the server, not http, so...

Just one customer or most or all? If it is just a few... that's their own issue, right? If they refuse secure HTTPS and demand RDP... sure. But that's on their end, not your end. Why get involved, right?

@dafyre said:

With switching to a new ITSP, they are moving to an unknown -- this guy is CHEAP... but is he worth his salt?... Giving their current ITSP (assuming a good relationship) a chance to match it would be more beneficial to the customer, I'd think.

If you deal with enterprise customers, there is no problem here. The problem is in dealing with the SMB market which, as I often say, remains SMB for a reason mostly. So making illogical and non-business sound decisions is sadly a hallmark of the market and as an ITSP in that market you have to account for the fact that with the majority of customers, logic, good service, protecting them are not things that will often be taken into account.

And it is more than just drain, it is partially defeating the purpose of the second PSU. It's like having two NICs bonded on your server but only having one switch to plug them into. Sure, it is better than nothing, but it is not delivering the redundancy that you hope for or pay for. If anything goes wrong with that one UPS the redundant PSUs will be useless.

Posted here on ML for the world to see.

My penance for daring to argue with @scottalanmiller

http://mangolassi.it/topic/6847/my-server-crash-writeup-11-10-2015

@nadnerB said:

It appears that you are running this via powershell and not cmd. Is that correct?
(Just thought I'd double check)

Yes via CMD

@gjacobse no sweat m8

That's one of 4 reports it gives us. I hate to toot their horn for free but they're a pretty skookum unit. We also have a temp/humid sensor additionally attached so in the screen cap below thats the internal temp and we put the other sensor on the top of the rack so we get room temp worst case

How are you trying to connect?

@IT-ADMIN said:

ok what about upgrading my preexisting 2008 R2 to 2012 R2 without losing my current configuration?? is it possible ??

Yes, you can do in place upgrades in most cases. Rarely recommended, clean installs are better, especially for servers. But technically it can be done.

@JaredBusch said:

Same sight existing user just called me complaining that the outlook 2007 client keeps locking up and crashing.

Said user is #3 in this list.

Just be thankful it isn't a PST file. (If it could even grow that large, which it can't.)

Yeah I think the "Office Uploader" got installed when I installed ODfB.

Which, as everybody here seems to know, seems to have some issues, generally.