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Good listing.

having spent a lot of time working on LEAN environment conversions, the most significant revelation is that EVERYONE has a voice and it needs to be encouraged that EVERYONE be heard. This also means that EVERYONE needs to listen to each other. I have found that after the initial shock and this comes to fruition, then…

Interesting article.

It is awesome to hear that you were able to solve the monitoring issue and save $$$. A Win-Win on so many levels

In the early 2000's I worked for a company that used the iris patterns of the human eye to determine identity. You allow a picture of your iris to be taken and associated with your Active Directory credentials. Then, when you wanted access they placed mirrors up on the wall near the appropriate doorways, etc that contained…

IT used to be seen as just a staff position but we have transistioned to more of a line position. We all need to communicate effectively, be business centric, and continually add to our skillsets. 

Nice reference material. 

Good points as I have been guilty in past lives while working from home to be one of those that put in the 70+ hours. It is at times too convenient to wake up in the middle of the night, login and perform maintenance or when I was coding to write code during the times when the house is quiet. I always eventually ran into…

I am still hung up on the overall security model for these environments. Waiting to see what pans out......

I like the information in these types of posts. Quite informative. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the great article.

I wish more people understood the benefits of the CAB and how it can significantly improve efficiency in the organization. The integrated features with Calendaring really caught my attention.

Interesting to see how things and/or perceptions change.

Being a long time IT person, I guess I too am not seeing the benefits of pushing critical applications into someone else's data center and then relying on external communication partners to ensure that I can get to those applications. I understand the available anytime concept that cloud infrastructure offers but in…

Good article.

I found this article helpful as we are in the planning stages for an exchange upgrade and this fuels the thought to make sure the HA is designed as well as monitoring points. Thanks!

Interesting. In my experience, SLA's are the double-edged sword. First, if you allow the user to set priority that always move towards high or emergency and second ensuring you have balanced IT staff to handle the variety of calls that hit the system. The biggest hurdle I have encountered with SLA is the driving need to…

The only major significant drawback to the VDI configuration is if a catastrophic failure of the backend components, ie SAN issue, switch issue, virtual environment (hosts, RAM, etc). Quickly building, deploying, and managing the individual workstations is relatively easy on the available support resources. The overall…

Congratulations to all the winners! 

Isn't it strange how the simple things seem to provide insight that was otherwise missing?

I re-read this post, and I think I will download and install the UDT evaluation. 

I have encountered a new device that only supports SNMPv3 and I found your article to be very helpful. Thanks!

True. I have done a fair amount of research and the best practices that I have arrived at is to assign each Admin two sets of credentials. One that is a "normal" user for their day-to-day work and then an "Admin" account for their required administrative duties. This is similar to the user/root found in Unix systems and…

Good article.

Interesting post and discussion.

Thanks for posting this information.

Intriguing article. I have just installed the IPAM evaluation and I plan to start seeing what it can do. I would really like to get away from the "Spreadsheet"! 

Educational and informative. Thanks.

These are the kinds of dig and get to the root cause details that I wake up each morning and absorb. Particularly with several pieces of bacon. Keep up the good work!

Having worked for companies that have allowed me to be flexible and work in both capacities, I never felt any resentment from those that had to drive in, but they also did not know how much additional responsibilities I had nor how much extra time I spent remoted in. I do think that with the plethora of remote technologies…