@scottalanmiller said:
It honestly feels really weird that going to the CIO would even be in question at that point. Would the CIO really want shielding like that in the organization? Hopefully not, hopefully he trusting everyone to report up when they see something.
I assume the CIO employed the IT Director? That can make it tricky, because it can sound like you're implying that he was an idiot for recruiting an idiot. You need to tread carefully here.
Asana is looking good!
It could be the one!! 
Our phone system is currently down. Our provider, BT, don't seem know what the problem is. So far they've just told us to reboot our firewall and reboot our phone system. Suspiciously, we are also have problems connecting to a few websites, although the vast majority are fine. I've done a tracert on one of them and the results are:
The first IP is our firewall, the second one is our public IP address and the ones after that are BT servers. Does the fact that it gets as far as BT's servers suggest that the problem is at their end rather than ours, or is there anything at our end that could cause these issues? I can ping the IP address via external tools like http://tools.pingdom.com/ping/?target=54.76.183.250&o=1 so I know that the websites in question are ok.
I know next to nothing about networks, so any advice would be much appreciated. If I can establish that there is a problem with BT's servers, then I can assume that the problem we are having with our phone system is likely to be connected.
So, is tracert telling me anything useful?
I'm thinking of putting a radio in the office and having 6Music on. It's a bit tricky when users come to see us though, but then again, I'm trying to discourage personal visits to the IT department. People should be e-mailing us.
I'm recruiting at the moment, so that should help. I don't trust outsiders that much. My old boss said I was a control freak, but I think that is slightly unfair.
"clear understanding" and "Microsoft licencing" is something of an oxymoron. But I'm pretty confident that domain joined PCs with OEM licences will get the free upgrade and that it will be relatively painless.
He's pretty shy, so not likely to organise something himself. If he could get a mate or two interested it would be possible.
I generally prefer to get the services and the hardware from the same place because otherwise if you get the service company on-site and it transpires that the hardware is faulty you could end-up paying twice to get the service company back in after replacement hardware has arrived. I like to know that whatever goes wrong there is only one company to blame and one company involved in fixing it.
@s.hackleman said in Warhammer 40k:
and way cheeper than PC gaming.
His main hobby is PC gaming. He has an old laptop that he mostly plays Terraria with. It was about $5 and has so far kept him entertained for about 2 years, 7 days a week. Unbelievable value for money. Probably the best investment I've ever made!
He also does a bit of Minecraft and World of Tanks, both cheap/free.
But I appreciate that in the next year or two he going to want to play games that require a proper computer, which is then going to get expensive.
We do have DIDs but have been trying not to use them, preferring a single number with an auto-attendant (which everyone hates).
"How dare you!"
"Hashtag Frustrated!!"
She sounds a bit hysterical, to be honest. Her attempts to make it go viral haven't really worked either. I might try posting it on a few other places to help her out
I thin provision everything apart from SQL Server where I'm more interested in performance than convenience, but I don't really know how "trivial" the performance hit from thin actually is. I just read that you shouldn't do it for SQL Server.
@BRRABill said in User's thoughts on Windows 10. #frustrated:
I was like, boy do I have some good news for you!
Until he finds out that his favourite websites all use Silverlight!
Anyway, I'm done. I've always been pretty open on here about my day job and I thought it would be helpful as there aren't that many end users on ML compared with people working for IT companies. But I'm tired of constantly getting told that I'm doing it all wrong. That my partners are "ripping me off" or that I have "unskilled screwdriver guys that you are paying for Exchange work". I respect different opinions, but opinions are all they are. I've been doing this job for the majority of my working life and I think I do a fine job. I'm going to try shutting up now and hopefully let someone else take the grief for a bit
<throws rest of toys out of pram>
@dafyre said:
@Carnival-Boy Did you actually install Application Server, and IIS Roles?
Yes. Although I don't believe you should have too as one of the purposes of the "Install Software Prerequisites Tool" is surely to, you know, install the software prerequisites.
Anyway, I'm back on track after running the Powershell scripts listed here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2765260. It's currently installing the rest of the pre-requisites.
I thought it was you.....
It's Kristofer Hivju - not that I know who he is.
OK. All pre-requisites now installed. Time to install the software itself.
