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Interesting article.

This was a good discussion.

That's my environment here. No changes submitted until proof that a backup exists. NCM makes the task of backing up configs painless and we perform weekly audits to ensure everyone knows what changes have been made and when. 

If only everyone thought the "chit-chat" was that important. Imagine how many more projects would start off on the right foot and never hit those "oh crap" moments months into the project!

Great article!

Helpful. Thanks for posting.

Helpful!

Great article. Thanks!

Is there any data showing what the actual bandwidth usage was?

Interesting post!

We utilize WSUS with a test environment. However, the biggest hurdle to efficient patching is the niche of critical systems and going through all the necessary approvals to be able to reboot a particular server. It may take 10-15 minutes to reboot the box but it may take 4 days to get everyone on-board and approving the…

Uhhh yeah, yeah, can you go to the data center move a yellow wire for me. Thanks!

I hadn't thought about the need for accessing remote support on multiple platforms. Interesting concept and this was great information.

While we are on the topic, how many of us remember working with expanded and extended memory management in DOS to get past the 640K barrier? Today there are 64-bit O/S that handle large amounts of RAM. But who remembers the TSR creativity and products like DesqView?

Interesting posting. Good historical. How would Windows 10 fit into this mix?

Sort of the experience I had when I got deeply into Solarwinds. I knew a lot of things that were going on in the network but Solarwinds brought a lot to the surface but it also has brought ROI to some of the future projects that I have been involved with. Thanks for the post.

Good article.

Tips and principles from someone who has been in the trenches for years. Nice listing. I after having worked at a large number of companies both as field engineer and as a corporate IT person, truly appreciate the benefits of standards and consistency. Being handed a standards document binder when you walked into a new…

THanks helpful information.

This was insightful information. With almost every environment that I have worked in, the concept of standardization is present but the reality is usually far different. Different *Nix hardware, software, O/S, and applications--patching of course can break any or all of those. Then, the windows patching whether automated…

Thanks for the posting. Good information.

Bookmarking this post!

Between delving into deeper areas by adding more the of the Solarwinds products and the implementation of a SIEM (not SW product) we are able to see better what is going on in the actual network. We are finding strange devices communicating to the outside world. Now we are able to start filtering out the "noise" and…

This is a great idea. I have used that type of functionality in some of my web environments.

Good article. Excellent video. Thanks for the posting.

Looks like it was a great event!

Interesting listing.

This definitely needs to be part of the toolbelt.

Interesting article.

Helpful, as we are looking at IPAM for our company.