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Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast

Thread Title posted:

YOSPOS › thread for when you have problems with computers


agreed.

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Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
yeah its really the solution to all your problems. especially the problems caused by using a Linux

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

Thankfully this is a non-profit that knows the value of MS products so azure shouldn't be a hard sell

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
access dbs can be loaded into a sql db via SSIS or really just the default import/export tool (which is a subset of ssis).

the forms stuff you'd have to recreate in asp.net or something. although idk if azure has a access db as a service thing. might be part of office 365?

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

Shaggar posted:

access dbs can be loaded into a sql db via SSIS or really just the default import/export tool (which is a subset of ssis).

the forms stuff you'd have to recreate in asp.net or something. although idk if azure has a access db as a service thing. might be part of office 365?

The 365 thing would be really appealing to me. I know access well enough and I know how to make forms/reports inside that well enough. The lack of granular permissions is the problem and not having to teach myself asp just for that one feature would save me a lot of work.

The other option might be to just use azure to port the db out to an mssql instance and keep using access as the front-end to the thing

e: yeah mssql db hosting is $5/mo for a 2gb db and I'm working with maybe 100mb tops. That should fit the bill

BangersInMyKnickers fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Sep 17, 2015

CrazyLittle
Sep 11, 2001





Clapping Larry

wait why this and not just pointing the domain name to google apps? fastmail seems pretty expensive for what they're offering

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

CrazyLittle posted:

wait why this and not just pointing the domain name to google apps? fastmail seems pretty expensive for what they're offering
google apps is $5/month and fastmail with a custom domain is $40/year

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!

CrazyLittle posted:

wait why this and not just pointing the domain name to google apps? fastmail seems pretty expensive for what they're offering

because you have actual support when something fucks up

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!
"heh paying for important things is so 2009"

"oh no everything is hosed up better make a post on hacker news because that's the only way to get support from google"

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

because you have actual support when something fucks up

seconded, google apps is terrible and you need to shoehorn paid third party backup solutions in it to have it remotely survivable

also the whole share files thing and arbitrary storage structure can go suck on a bag of dicks

Dodoman
Feb 26, 2009



A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret
Lipstick Apathy
google has responded to my support requests pretty quickly when i needed help with my (grandfathered) gapps setup

but anecdotal evidences doesn't matter

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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Dodoman posted:

google has responded to my support requests pretty quickly when i needed help with my (grandfathered) gapps setup

they respond quickly that they can't do anything recovery related, yeah

Dodoman
Feb 26, 2009



A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret
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i've never had to do anything recovery related so i can't really comment on that. i don't doubt what you've said though, stick to a professional service.

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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Dodoman posted:

i've never had to do anything recovery related so i can't really comment on that. i don't doubt what you've said though, stick to a professional service.

tbf gmail & gmail for business is nice, hell even gapps in general are okay-ish if you don't mind being stuck in a js nightmare wrt custom functions, but if the front end is passable the whole back end is fragile as gently caress

for the exact same price you get office 365 online only and for a couple bucks more you get the full feature desktop suite, which is a hard value to beat imo

CrazyLittle
Sep 11, 2001





Clapping Larry

anthonypants posted:

google apps is $5/month and fastmail with a custom domain is $40/year

ah i see. i misread the pricing as per month not per year. yeah that's not bad at all for imap/pop/caldav/cardav

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
yo is there any way in AD to restrict users to one login in the domain

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

graph posted:

yo is there any way in AD to restrict users to one login in the domain

what do you mean

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

get an IAM product!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

graph posted:

yo is there any way in AD to restrict users to one login in the domain

not built in to ad. there are 3rd party solutions though. whats the scenario? if you want to lock a specific user to a specific domain computer, that's doable, but not one concurrent login across all machines

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Shaggar posted:

but not one concurrent login across all machines

yeah :\

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

power botton posted:

what do you mean

i need to prevent other people logging in twice so banned people can use machines in a certain location

power botton
Nov 2, 2011

what is there that can block auth across the baord? is it some network proxy thing in front of your DCs?

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

graph posted:

i need to prevent other people logging in twice so banned people can use machines in a certain location

if you have like an unbanme kiosk you could limit those users to login into machines in the kiosk until their unbanned but that's about it.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts
er i meant so banned people can't

impossible. rats

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
well if you know the machines you don't want them to use you can put them in an AD group and deny login access to those machines to the banned users. Either by denying local login on those machines to the banned users, or (better) removing local login from the banned users domain wide and then granting it to specific machines.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Shaggar posted:

well if you know the machines you don't want them to use you can put them in an AD group and deny login access to those machines to the banned users. Either by denying local login on those machines to the banned users, or (better) removing local login from the banned users domain wide and then granting it to specific machines.

yes thats what i have in place now. the problem is that their friends will login twice and the banned people will use that.

BangersInMyKnickers
Nov 3, 2004

I have a thing for courageous dongles

graph posted:

yes thats what i have in place now. the problem is that their friends will login twice and the banned people will use that.

time for smartcards

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

time for smartcards

ooo.

will look into. thanks!

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

for all the poo poo microsoft earns, there are some office 365 packages that are a drat good value for small businesses (or 'SMBs')

Corla Plankun
May 8, 2007

improve the lives of everyone
whats a good place to buy game controllers for pc? i have a bnunch of steam games now that are not v good with wasd+mouse but i haven't bought a controller since like the 90s and my computer doesnt even have a game port anymore

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

Corla Plankun posted:

whats a good place to buy game controllers for pc? i have a bnunch of steam games now that are not v good with wasd+mouse but i haven't bought a controller since like the 90s and my computer doesnt even have a game port anymore
amazon.com still sells wired 360 controllers

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Corla Plankun posted:

whats a good place to buy game controllers for pc? i have a bnunch of steam games now that are not v good with wasd+mouse but i haven't bought a controller since like the 90s and my computer doesnt even have a game port anymore

Buy an Xbone controller and connect it with microUSB.

Otherwise buy a wired 360 controller, but the Xbone d pad is better.

A Wheezy Steampunk
Jul 16, 2006

High School Grads Eligible!

anthonypants posted:

amazon.com still sells wired 360 controllers

yeah this

Heresiarch
Oct 6, 2005

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that no single book is. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
yeah, the 360 controller is supported directly by most pc games that can use controllers, and lots of them only support the 360 (or xbone) controller because they're console ports or were co-developed as console games

if you want something for emulation, though, the logitech F310 is the latest version of a long series of pc game controllers that are pretty solid and in my experience work better for mame and the like. ymmv of course

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

nobody ever got fired for buying logitech

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006
just get a wireless 360 controller off amazon

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

you also need the dongle, there are generics

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
the generics can be bad. its simpler to just get an xbone controller cuz the d pad is better and you can just plug it in with microusb

Sniep
Mar 28, 2004

All I needed was that fatty blunt...



King of Breakfast
the xbone is bad

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syscall girl
Nov 7, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Fun Shoe

Sniep posted:

the xbone is bad

mayhap, but m$ and sorny spent millions developing controllers so they win in that dept.

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