@JaredBusch said:

Also I was under the impression that they are supposedly moving away from the big service packs and towards the update rollout schedule.

I believe that that is true. The big SP thing did not work well, they developed a very unhealthy culture of people reading too much into the SP numbers.

Fortunately the issue hasn't become a large one. If it does, I think I'll probably end up buying another Windows license and giving those users a VM to log into the bank from.

Or I could get SA/intune license and build a VM on the server for them to share.

@Nara said:

It depends on the system. Through the use of test pools, VDI change management's pretty much baked-in. With most virtualized environments, key VMs can be cloned into a test environment.

From what I've seen, none of the players (Chef, Puppy, etc.) attempt to address desktop needs. I'm a little confused by this because it seems like it would be a natural fit but the market seems to be eschewed from the vendor perspective and the use of disparate tools expected from the client perspective.

Cloning VMs works as a starting point. These tools are good for keeping them that way in the future.

@scottalanmiller said:

We never use dedupe outside of the backup system. Good file system management gives you most if that value.

And for a VM you'll get more from dedupe at the storage layer than inside a single VM.

2012 dedupe works well. It is a good product. It probably makes the most sense on a very large file server.

Storage-level deduplication can be quite useful. However, with the modern push toward local storage, shared deduplicating storage isn't really seen except for in rather large environments.

@alexntg said:

@Joyfano said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@alexntg said:

@Reid-Cooper said:

Anyone got anything left unpatched?

Hopefully no one replies to this, as it would be a great way to find targets.

LOL, good point. Although very hard to trace back an online profile to an IP address.

We don't have good internet connection.. Am i safe now?

Not quite. SSL connections generally don't require much bandwidth.

Well Totally i disconnected our production machine into internet.
@scottalanmiller is right. No stable internet connection.

I am curious and i drop by to read about Chef. Interesting 🙂

@Mike-Ralston said:

Within a Elastix Web interface. I fixed the issue, but some of out team got a serious kick out of this, so I posted it here.

I saw it happen. It was unique to IE and to Mike, apparently.

More about MongoDB 2.6

http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/first-look-mongodb-26-the-all-grown-version-240038

Did you show it to Liesl?

Thanks. I have some work to do.

Whoops! Lol.

I found a couple to play with: Microsoft Project Siena- looks like it is an App creator but I have no clue how it works or what I would use it for... something to play with while traveling this week.

See it is useful!

@Nic said:

@Dashrender said:

@Nic said:

Don't change your password on any system that isn't updated yet, or it will just get stolen again. There's a bunch of places that will tell you if a site is updated or not, including LastPass.

I'm not sure what the specific pointing out of LastPass is, but here's a link to their blog http://blog.lastpass.com/2014/04/lastpass-and-heartbleed-bug.html
According to them, your passwords were never in jeopardy because it's always pre encrypted before being sent over the internet, even thought it was going on SSL.

No I mean LastPass will now check sites for you: http://blog.lastpass.com/2014/04/lastpass-now-checks-if-your-sites-are.html

Aww.. yes Very cool of them! Scott even started a new page just for that.

@Dashrender said:

Yeah, not to bad - I don't like the fact that it's all browser based. You download a client that's installed, then the browser session connects to that install to run the scan from your machine on your network. You have to put credentials into the software to get the scan to do anything worth while.

The first scan I ran came back empty because I didn't associate the credentials with any machines - wasn't obvious this needed to be done, still took me 5 mins to figure it out.

Ah, I was wondering how it did it without an install.

Favorite thing so far is the easy of having everything synced with my desktop. So I can move to the couch or out on the deck and not miss a beat on Skype, lync, email even web pages I had last open.

Congrats Sir 🙂

@scottalanmiller said:

@technobabble said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@technobabble said:

Has anyone used Decrap?

Hopefully not. Much better to do a clean image.

I do like that option when the client is on-board, however very small businesses (mom & pops) usually decline because of time and cost.

Saving money is never something that little shops like. That's why they stay little 😉

Yep.

What's your view on projectors versus televisions? A few years ago we replaced the projector in our training room with a 50 inch telly, and people complain it's too small. But you can get a 60 inch LED now for the price of a decent projector, and a 70 inch for a fair bit more. I'd prefer a television, as I find them simpler to operate and I like lots of HDMI connections. A 100 inch touch-screen monitor is probably a few years away for us.

It annoys me when people complain they can't see something and I ask them if they have glasses and they say "Yeah, but I never wear them at work".