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Thank you mom for telling me stories of the original computers at the insurance company. Thank you Dr. Rxxxxx for telling me NO when I wanted to take a programming course in 1975 when I was an English major.. Then relenting after I passionately argued my point for 45 minutes. Thank you to my sister for getting me in the…

You forgot blood type!

I'd be interested on O365 monitoring as well.. Just migrated 3 weeks ago

Congrats to all.... Enjoy....

Great timing on this one Dez​ am in the middle of re-writing our incident response plan to cover just this topic. This will prove incredibly helpfui to me! thanks.

Why not.... 

or as a pre-school teacher friend of mine says " we make mistakes not purposes!"

Splendid!!!! I must try this..

Great job as always to the team!! Love the photo...

True... I have worked in a couple of places where some departments bring "rogue" devices on board so that they become dependent upon them. Then, when there is a problem.... IT is called, forced to support and eventually take over support, upgrades and the like. One of the greatest examples I have of this is a member of the…

Nice write up Dez​... People are trusting beings... and they think that everyone is just like them.... This is what the bad guys depend on..... P.T.Barnum was a genius! (4 teenage daughters... yikes.... I had two and that was enough!)

Traceroute is dying an ever increasing faster death for all the reasons mentioned here... too bad.. was a great tool in my pocket. Netpath.... time to try it!

AWESOME.... Please offer again soon... Had a conflict....

Wow... what a great way of expressing the issue. I have always used the "trust but verify" mode.... Users understand that when I commit to looking at it, I will find the underlying problem, they also know that when the problem is identified or resolved, I will explain it in "layman's" terms so their eyes don't glaze over.…

The whole training dynamic is complicated. Outside training or learning events is just about a must. When my kids were young I would wait until they went to bed before I started "work learning" .... After a while, I had to stop... (sleep is not overated!). I've been one of those guys (early on in my career) that got…

The decision to do anything in the cloud should be based on a business need that has been completely vetted by a solid risk analysis. More importantly, what has your company done to mitigate the inherent risks in the cloud. Your dependence on the vendor means greater due diligence on your part, in particular with 3rd and…

Looking forward to seeing these... It's a topic that hits home.... Thank you for taking the time to do this!

missed... nbd...

my freezer is well stocked

I'll repeat something I posted here a while back.... "Not all clouds have silver linings"

Congrats amore1329​

Great job sqlrockstar​ Remember when FB went public... people worried about their ability to generate revenue by their ads? There's gold to be mined in them data hills!!!! To borrow a phrase from a few years ago...... "It's about the data stupid!!"

Ahh,,, the good old days... Mainframes and reel to reel... We used to initialize at least 100 tapes every two days... You remember the little red/white "tape" that held the leader to the rest of the reel on a new tape? Well we created a baseball size ball with these pieces... Working 11 PM to 7 AM requires caffeine and the…

Awesome...simply awesome

@"patrick.hubbard" well done.. one of my Covid driven moments was we had a really hard time with some users understanding some of our requirements for remote access (even with pictures) in our next TEAMS meeting I wore my most favorite SolarWinds T-SHIRT REPLACE USER TRY AGAIN My team loved it. BE well BE safe BE YOURSELF

I just can't stop laughing.... brilliant!

Bacoin: A crisp new idea!!!

We've tried to introduce "fingerprint readers" into our desktop environment with mixed results....(Vendor intentionally left blank!) They work with some applciations and not others.... there is also a drag on system performance.... We've suspended the effort for now... but am looking at a "fresh start" early next year...…

Security article is right.... A good backup is everyone's friend.

Seems like Google is not getting the message!!! But... if you rake in money like they do.... a failure or 2 or 3 or even 20.... no matter!