@biglittle said in The Basics of VoIP SAMIT Video:

Just realized today when routing a ticket that our VOIP is pbx based? No idea what any of this means, but excited to learn

Essentially all business VoIP uses a PBX. There can be exceptions, but it’s mostly theoretical.

@scottalanmiller said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

@dave247 said in Do You Need Two AD Domain Controllers? SAMIT Video:

.... haven't had the chance to dig in as I am a freaking "IT generalist" where I work.

Youtube Video

I have a video for everything these days.

yep I just watched that one.. guess I can't call myself a Systems Administrator anymore 😢 (jk I totally am)

It's not that college is always bad, it just comes with negatives that have to be weighed against the positives. The standard approach is to assume that instead of going to college (whether at 18 or mid-career) is to assume that the person will do absolutely nothing productive with their free time, accept the same stagnation and all other negatives that come with the educational process, and that they will then compete toe to toe after the one has completed college and the other has just waited for them to finish.

But in the real world, someone ambitious enough to have gone to college for career reasons is also ambitious enough to work harder at their jobs, done a side job, gotten certs, learned on their own, moved on to another job, or so forth. Those are the more realistic actions of the other person that had the option of college. So when making the comparison, you have to look at those opportunities and look at the opportunities from the degree process and weight them in that fashion.

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Not sure what the original source of this was, but found it interesting that they note the "wall of text" issue specifically as a problem that makes it hard for some people to follow the topic.

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@scottalanmiller said in What Is RAID 0? SAMIT Video:

@jimmy9008 said in What Is RAID 0? SAMIT Video:

I like the video; I'm not sure how helpful it is though.

Well, if you already know RAID 0. But lots of people don't, and I want to be complete.

I think it's definitely needed. Anyone who doesn't have any knowledge on the subject but is looking to learn will have a good resource in this.

@dashrender said in The Inappropriate Bundling of Services SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller said in The Inappropriate Bundling of Services SAMIT Video:

"what they do" for the other it is "what they have to do and hope you do as little as possible." Keeping lots of cooks in their own

Let's use GoDaddy as an example, short of them not supporting a record type, what's the issue with GoDaddy DNS and registrar in one account - specifically?

That's a good one to look at specifically.

GoDaddy DNS is cumbersome to use and wastes time. This is a vendor issue, not a bundling one. GoDaddy DNS has a less than stellar uptime track record. This isn't a service they are known for, they don't really care as serious customers don't use it for this. Under normal operations, non-IT staff should never have access to DNS records and IT staff should never have access to corporate identity records. Using GoDaddy for both removes the possibility of keeping those highly critical roles separate and puts the company in danger of IT running off with the company identity and business people of accidentally taking services offline. As above, there is no safe means of using contractor support for simple IT tasks. GoDaddy doesn't offer key DNS related features like caching. You are either stuck using a single registrar (often not even possible as different registrars offer different domains) or stuck managing DNS is multiple locations. It lowers flexibility. An outage from your registrar can take out your DNS with your risk mitigation removed as part of the outage. Otherwise a DNS outage can be protected against from the registrar and a registrar outage has no production impact. This is the biggest issue, it creates a whole form of risk that need not exist.

@jaredbusch said in How to Approach Installing Hyper-V SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller you really need to think about your still image on these.

Also. I broke down and clicked on this one.

The lead in music was significantly louder than the audio after the lead in. that is bad.

That's been since addressed. Actually both things have. The videos from today (not posted yet) are with a still camera and audio tweaking. My dad does the final edits, and he added the intro music. So hopefully those two things are taken care of in about two videos from now.

@scottalanmiller I think she's so used to me putting her into hypothetical situations she has adapted to saying what she needs to say without arguing lol

@john11smith said in Getting Started in IT SAMIT Video:

I think bench work would be perfect for me. Please don't say I need CompTIA A+ for this. I feel like it is going backwards. Perhaps Server+ then?

Sadly, A+ is the only broadly known cert in the bench world. The Server+ is a better cert, but only applies to a certain type of bench work and is only known by 1% of employers.

@donaldlandru yup