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Beefstorm posted:This thread looks like fun. I've had similar training/contract stipulations before at old jobs. Essentially if the company pays for training or certification you agree to stick around for at least 2 years afterwards or you have to pay back the cost. My HR director at the time told me that it's essentially meaningless. They can't take the money out of your last paycheck legally and the legal costs for getting the money recouped wouldn't be worth paying. The only thing you'd possibly lose is a recommendation from them if you listed them as a reference.
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Walked posted:Small IT shop; medium sized environment. Some people have had good luck with FileMaker Pro databases which is nice and lightweight but that wont integrate with AD.
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Another vote for OneDrive for business being lovely. Last I checked the basic OneDrive had more features than the business version. Dropbox for business has been simple enough to get users to use and they love it. Thats been the case for the small mom and pop side jobs at least for me.
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If I recall there were file size limits with OneDrive for business as well that would've affected out engineering users had we stuck with it. On top of all the general errors it would spit out while trying to sync. Troubleshooting from Microsoft was to always delete everything and try a new sync from scratch.
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You could justify the expense as paying $75 for something that will actually work and wont cause you to spend a ton of man hours attempting to fix. Especially when the "fix" is to delete everything on OneDrive and try to re-sync and hope it works. There are plenty of alternatives to OneDrive and Dropbox too. Box comes to mind and has pretty good enterprise support and features from what I can remember.
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:What's the best *CHEAP* monitoring software for monitoring availability for about 30 devices (vsphere environment, physical servers, switches, firewalls, NAS) I still prefer Nagios for this sort of thing but PRTG would probably work as well just fine. I just prefer the look of Nagios once it's set up the way I like.
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:I do static IPs so that all my printers can be close to each other in IP range. How often are you guys changing printer IP addresses lmao. This is me. I don't have that many to administer, all but 2 of them are leased so I have a set range set them up and forget about them. wolrah posted:Definitely DHCP reservations. I consider actual hardcoded static IPs something to avoid unless you're forced to or the device having an IP is critical to network functionality.
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pixaal posted:I'm new to running a department and haven't really made a small purchase from a rep, will they be angry about buying a single computer? I'm looking to buy some servers in 2016, should I mention that to try and drive the price down or will that not come into play at all? Its the CFO dont cheap out. Get an i7, 8GB of RAM, and for gods sake spend the extra money on an SSD. The whole reason you go through Dell is so you have good warranty support so dont cheap out on that either. Get 4 years of next day business support because you have better things to do than baby sit hardware for some C level. Also you're running a department now so you should be looking at the big picture not doing price comparisons to some Toshiba laptop on Amazon that can save you $100 bucks. No the rep wont give a poo poo about a single computer, margins are garbage on laptops so it's not even worth emailing that quote to other vendors to get counter offers most wont care. When you say servers how many do you mean and what type? Blade, tower, etc? Still probably wont do anything but see if you can get in touch with a VAR who might throw you better pricing on bulk deals.
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pixaal posted:It's a desktop, but point taken. I'm looking at replaced 3 1Us and 2 2Us from 2008 with a pair of servers for Virtualization, it should fit the company need. This is the small shop thread, nothing fancy is expected. I just don't see what advantage an i7 offers when the i5 is less money and benchmarks higher on single threaded applications. Primary applications include office, quickbooks, and Navision which as far as I know all only use a single core.If there is a compelling reason to get an i7 I'll go for it though. Well if a $200 difference in price leads to a closed door hour long meeting you've got bigger problems. Honestly even with the server upgrades you plan on doing I doubt you get much of a price break if any from your vendor. If at all possible though spend the extra dough and still go with an i7. The reason being is you can go to that C level say it's top of the line and reasonably expect it to perform well 4 years down the line still. Which leads into the next question. Does your org have a replacement schedule in place for PC's? Your accounting department should be depreciating everything and the bean counters should know you plan on rotating hardware every 4 -5 years or whatever schedule you come up with. You need to have this in place so you dont have to fight for every PC purchase because again you have more important things to do then putz around with desktop hardware. Who is your hardware vendor? Do you have a Dell rep or do you go through someone else? CDW can sell Dells now and I've had good luck working with them in the past. It would be worth looking into getting a rep through them to be able to get quotes from and at least do some price comparisons as well.
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Gerdalti posted:You can probably just look at it and figure it out honestly. GPO is really easy. This exactly. The hardest part about working with GPOs is finding out where the setting is that you want to change. Just make sure to test any GPO properly before applying it to a huge target OU.
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Gerdalti posted:And finding out "where" the setting is usually just takes a quick Google search. I'm a fan of this site for helping you get pointed in the right direction: http://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net/
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Thanks Ants posted:
Doing this now for my environment. Totally worth the money. $10 lifetime for up to 10 users I think if self hosted. If you scale past that ten their pricing gets insane. Really loving it so far but it does suffer from that "everything can look so nice and cool" effect where I tend to let perfect get in the way of good.
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goobernoodles posted:So I guess people love ZenDesk around here, right? Can anyone give me an idea as to what they use in conjunction with ZenDesk to make it fit their needs? Mainly RMM and documentation side of things. Anyone have any experience with Panorama9 or Autotask? I use a combination of Zendesk for ticketing/helpdesk and Confluence for documentation. Their is a zendesk connector for Confluence that works reasonably well: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/integratecloud.com/server/reviews That will allow you to link knowledge articles or how-to's you've written in Confluence. Overall I'd say Confluence is amazing and I can't say enough about it as an organizational and documentation tool. They integrate overall better with JIRA which I dont have experience with but I know lots of other organizations use and can be customized a million different ways to make it fit your company. It's probably not as turn-key easy as zendesk is though.
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Fourteen posted:Anyone have any experience with Logitech GROUP for small office video conferencing? Get ready to hate your life if your company is expecting a really good quality video conferencing device on the cheap. The good stuff costs a ton of money, and the room has to be perfect for whatever hardware you go with. Whats your budget for this? You can go real cheap with a used polycom speaker phone and logitech camera, not sure how well it would work but it'd be something at least.
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Internet Explorer posted:The quality on the video and audio both seem great to me. Other than a camera that zooms in to the individual who is talking, I don't really see the need for anything more. And I have implemented very expensive Polycom systems from as recent as 3 years ago. I would say at this point the hardware you use matters less and less, the software that ties it all together is more important. I can't see any reason a small or medium business would do one of the traditional video conferencing systems these days. It's just not worth it. Maybe it was just the last building I was in but we fought terrible sound all of the time. The video part was easy, it was audio that was hard. Part of that is getting people to not talk into their laptop screen or be facing the projector speaking and the table mics not picking it up. Eventually we outsourced it to some AV company who put in acoustic panels and ceiling mics which somehow still didnt sound great.
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Also worth noting is that CDW can sell Dell gear now. I have a completely useless Dell rep thats managed to stick around for over a year. I also have a couple of great CDW reps. As soon as I heard CDW could do Dell quotes I started going with them and getting hardware has gotten so much easier and better.
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I still dont understand fully why Microsoft is doing this. With their workaround anyone can see all of the GPOs in your environment which seems less secure to me.
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I've used Box Enterprise in the past and it works fairly well. Good administrative features and works nicely on mobile devices. The only problems we ever had with it was the occasional syncing error. And the fix from Box support was to just reinstall the client, that said it has gotten more stable in the past year.
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