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goodzhere​ I couldn't agree with you more on your comment about the government being way behind. I have had the opportunity to work with several different government entities and I continuously find myself amazed at how far behind they are in all facets of technology and the people running it don't seem to have a clue.…

Thanks rschroeder​, I do have my NFR licenses; however, this thread was created before that was an available. Also, the NFR licenses still only exist for MVP's and I still believe it would be nice for other folks that have paid for their products to be able to run a lab environment that supports only a few nodes without…

I think this ship may have already sailed, but instead of Skynet they named it Facebook! 

Companies that plan to be compliant need to plan to make resources available to focus on the compliance aspect of the business; otherwise they will likely fail. Compliance isn't something you do once and then are done, it's something that needs to be managed an maintained in perpetuity. It's a common mistake to pass an…

sqlrockstar​ unfortunately it isn't DPA, at least not yet; I have certainly advocated for it. With that being said, AppInsight for SQL is what we use in most cases and from there our DBA is able to do the rest directly in SQL Server using the tools that come with it. The problems that we most often see are much more basic…

I think that whole Net Promoter Score thing falls under the category "if it seems to good to be true, it isn't true". Using a single question that gets a single number to provide a perceived ton of value simply sounds too good to be true... and it was.

I have been pondering the idea of setting up a more full featured lab for our TACC guys to do training on. I think I may need to consider this as part of that lab.

I love the fact that SolarWinds is willing to work with and integrate with other vendor solutions.

benjamin.shirley@craemer.com​ it's nice to know I am not the only person that feels this way. Not having this ability is killing me as I have to write incredibly complex rules just to accomplish what could otherwise be done with a simple exclude.

We use O365 and have helped to deploy it for clients as well. I can personally say I have had a positive experience with it with one exception; running mail in a hybrid mode, I would strongly recommend against this as it causes an administrative nightmare.

AI is a tool like any other and the tool is only ever 20% of the solution, the other 80% is people and process.

IoT devices certainly help reinforce the case of multi-layer security. Unfortunately we can't rely on the vendors to make these products secure so we have to take it upon ourselves to implement multi-layer security to protect them as much as we can.

Wow, I really hadn't ever thought about that! You make some really excellent points here, I think maybe the industry has been much too lax with this concept of an Ethical Hacker. It basically says that all you need to do is put the word "Ethical" in front of your title and then it makes it all okay and are now trusted with…

Yes, absolutely, me too! I just had this conversation with support yesterday.

I hope everybody gets automatic credit for that one, it was easy enough anyway. I didn't see that it was an issue until now, I just assumed my browser was tweaking out like it does often enough.

I personally think the Windows Firewall is one of the worst implementations of a firewall I have ever had to work with so I generally avoid it whenever possible. When it comes to remote management of Windows systems there are plenty of agent based applications out there that give you some pretty awesome capabilities; what…

Well, I certainly don't know if this was my greatest moment or if I have even really had a greatest moment; however: We had a client that kept having their IIS server crash causing their sit to go down. Our technical folks started working with their tech folks to try and solve the problem and many of the solutions included…

We are aware of it and have therefore chosen to not do maps for customers until such a time where this is resolved (as I have been told it's being worked on). With that aside, we have had significant success with Orion in a multi-tenant environment and our customers are always very impressed with our monitoring…

LOL good point, lets pretend I never asked!

If at the end of the day you are presented with a loose/loose equation maybe the solution is to not begin down the path in the first place; the answer may be DON'T PLAY THERMONUCLEAR WARFARE because you can't win! In the case of medical devices where peoples lives are at stake the correct answer may be to not make them…

I am looking forward to getting this installed. The terminology changes (Message - Event - Alert) are great as these were things I often found confusing and difficult to explain to others.

Hrm, this gave me an interesting thought. How long (if ever) do you suppose it is before home users and maybe SMB's just run thin clients at their site that connect them to cloud systems?

Problem is user 3.0 has a bug and there isn't a HotFix yet! 

We don't have a strong sense of privacy at our office. The company systems belong to the company, if you don't want us knowing what you are doing then don't do it on our equipment. The only place were we run into the entitlement problem is when it comes to installing personal applications on the work systems. We don't…

Jfrazier​ I couldn't agree with you more. What I would really love to see is a standard reference architecture for best practices for the standard security layers a person should have and then maybe another reference architecture that is the same but with additional (more secure) layers. I have seen some things like this…

I love the article about Microsoft and the datacenter lift & shift. I am loving the new Microsoft and how they don't seem to be afraid to take anything on, certainly not the company that they used to be.

I guess I should have anticipated my critique would get put back on me to make a suggestion, well played sir! While I am not suggesting that these tried and true CLI tools will or should go away, I would be interested to see ideas and conversation around how the same functionality could be better built in to the more…

We have around 20 people that wound need access to the tool to make it useful. We originally purchased a single license that is installed on the Orion primary poller as we couldn't not justify multiple licenses back then either.

I spell relief with a bowl of Super Colon Blow! I honestly don't know how people can even manage a network without a good NMS.

This must be the new trend in our industry, slap some new terminology on something and teat it like it's a brand new idea that is going to revolutionize our industry.