They should try Wisconsin towns too - Mukwonago, Sheboygen, Waukesha, Oconomowoc, Ozaukee, etc.

A lot of them are Native American + French mixed in for good measure.

@ajstringham

A good start might be some cool registry checks.

As an example, I'm working on a WSUS troubleshooting tool (next gen script based on my VBScript that checks in and downloads/installs updates and emails a logfile). A big portion of my script is checking various registry keys and outputting those to the screen so I can quickly determine if there is a problem with my WSUS client configuration.

This is using (among other things) - get-itemproperty - fun little cmdlet!

C'mon! Send-MailMessage for the win. Just the fact that it took so much coding in VBScript in comparison to do this very thing. Very useful to pop at the end of a script designed to gather some stats or other stuff.

Comic: Clicking Executive Officer

Thought you guys would appreciate this...

@scottalanmiller said:

@Rob-Dunn said:

I've heard the "bendy" problems may stem from when the phone is hot and under tensile stress. You should keep an eye on it while it's charging or in your pocket for awhile.

Aluminum doesn't get more plastic at the range of temperatures that the phone could withstand. It would need hundreds of degrees more for that to be a factor.

Tensile stress is always what creates a plastic deformation of a material, so that part is a given. But aluminum is stable throughout the human-withstandable temperature range.

Right, but tensile strength doesn't just imply only tearing or breaking, it also refers to bending up to breaking/tearing. This guy seems to think his had an overheating battery that caused his issue (although this is a single incident), which is reasonable. He may have just simply had a bad battery.

Either way, put a hardshell case on it, and you shouldn't have much to worry about.

I've heard the "bendy" problems may stem from when the phone is hot and under tensile stress. You should keep an eye on it while it's charging or in your pocket for awhile.

Even if you can't get into the 'admin' bits of Powershell what with your network systems, you can still delve into it with the file-level stuff. Script actions against files based on content, output to HTML/CSV, etc. send them to email. Even by doing that, you'll be on the right track when it comes to working with your networked systems!

@Dominica said:

I feel like MangoCon would attract some pretty confused people, wondering where the sessions on mango growing and harvesting are.

Or looking for this guy...

Back a few years ago, they didn't support GPT, so keep that in mind. This may be different now.

Double-check that your devices will work with it, but overall, they have a wide berth of laptops/desktops they support!

The installation routine was very easy and encryption would pick up where it left off if the unit was powered off/hibernated during it's initial encryption process.

@IRJ said:

@Rob-Dunn said:

@IRJ

Sophos SafeGuard works pretty well and is centrally managed.

Since we use Sophos Enterprise Console that was going to be the first solution we looked at. Do you use it, rob?

Yeah - at my last job. It worked pretty well. The only issue we had was with some laptops and when a battery would run out while powered on (kind of a weird thing) - some laptops would sometimes go into the encryption recovery mode (probably 1 laptop out of 100).

I'm not sure if it was something that we could have prevented, but overall, it was pretty easy to manage.

@IRJ

Sophos SafeGuard works pretty well and is centrally managed.

Maybe someone can talk about Linux management, ala Puppet or something else (my Linux-fu is not so good)?

Discuss what's keeping people from using it, and why should you not be afraid of it.

Yeah, I've heard of it, never used it - but it's pretty highly regarded.

The Surface is really a direct competitor to the MacBook Air and other ultra-light laptops, and does overlap the tablet niche. From a management standpoint, though, you can't go wrong with iPad. Our outside sales people here all use 3G iPads, and they are awesome: Direct access to email and iSeries...there is little to no maintenance on our side. Each person maintains their own iTunes account, and that's it, we are pretty much hands-off from an IT standpoint.

If we were to get everyone a Surface Pro, well, then...how much does it cost to maintain a Windows computer vs. iPad at that point? We're not interested in adding all that work. Maybe that's more of an RT solution, but I'd have to work with it more to know for sure. I've not heard anything good about RT, but then again , if there's a viable iSeries app, it may not matter - and manageability would be much lighter.

With that said, I LOVE the Surface Pro 3. I would replace it with my laptop in a heartbeat.

Nice. Just wanted to check in to see if it worked - - good news!

Didn't hear anything back from Websense, but it's good you guys confirmed.

I know someone who would be willing to help out with the Powershell stuff

In all seriousness, we'd have to find out what level of skill to cater toward, and then work from there. In the other thread, SAM talked about the flow of problem discovery to tool creation and implementation, what's the thought process, how to approach the solution, etc. That'd be a good session, I think.

@Reid-Cooper said:

ConMango via Convention.... with mango by convention, ha ha.

Much wow.

@Minion-Queen said:

There will be in the next 6 months. Look for thread to go up soon on that. The what are we going to call it... no idea. MangoCon is dumb

goCon has a cool ring to it...

@scottalanmiller said:

@Rob-Dunn said:

...and thanks for the kind words about our Powershell session! Martin and I love doing it and would enjoy doing a tool building session (like SAM said, a logic flow toward solving a problem).

Maybe a higher level session to be delivered at MangoCon?

Wait...there's going to be a MangoCon? I know I would be interested!