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I would say no, and I am not judging. I know I need to find more offline time. My goal is to start small and work my way up.

Glad it helped, I am still learning all the parts and pieces in the latest version of Orion Maps. I like what I see, but I need to keep playing with it to learn it better and use it well. 

When we first forced a Screen lock policy after a few minutes, we have some creative users find ways to bypass it, from paperclips or staplers forcing key presses, to wiggling every mouse they walked past. Eventually they understood the need, and IT adjusted to make sure that workflows could continue without causing issues.

I loved the Unicode phishing article. I know that our Proofpoint ups the "risk" when it sees look alike characters in an email, but it makes sense to stop it at the browser.

do any of the fixes in those links work for you? some of that would be scriptable

Herd immunity is so critical for the kids we treat. Many parents live in fear that something insignificant will put their child in the ICU. Its a requirement to get the flu shot to work here, and they provide it. People talk about the effectiveness of the flu shots every year, and the CDC and others try to pick the most…

I have been in that role from time to time. I typically only want to validate that they can do what they claim to have done on their resume. I pick a few things that the job requires and that I personally understand, and I see if they are comfortable with those skills or if they exaggerated drastically.

Snapshot age is strongly enforced around here. If you need to roll back data further in time, look to your back up solutions. Also, make sure you understand your back up solution, some of them need to take a snapshot of your server while its being backed up, and if you have a running snap, it may do bad things to that back…

I can't believe I want to use a Kanban at home, or that I never thought of it.

Quickly showing correlation between disparate systems using a non-technical chart will truly make life better, I am very excited

Its worth the effort assuming you aren't worried about the count of components for licensing. It gives you a great start when looking into performance of those apps.

Adafruit is awesome. I got started with a Raspberry Pi kit a year ago, and went down the rabbit hole. Their stuff is designed and built in New York city, and is meant to make hobby electronics easy. This fall I wired up my son's Buzz Light Year costume with some of their "sewable" controllers and LEDs. You can see the arm…

I'd give up if I walked in on that. You don't ever clean that up, you start over.

#1 I totally support #2 Is huge for a wide swath of issues. Good teams figure out how to work out schedule issues among themselves, and a manager can't force it. In the end you make sure that it all evens out, but even is not the same as everybody being the same. We might change up on call for daycare, exercise, religion,…

Our medical transcription is done first by software, and then areas of low confidence reviewed by people. The number of people needed shrinks every year. I expect our first level help desk to be bots before we know it. I expect that many things that I do today will be done by software. It is why I never stop finding new…

We need move out of our current data center. The process started a few years ago, and the assumption by leadership was the cloud might be able to handle it. We did the math, and it very quickly became obvious that it was cheaper over a 5 year time frame to build a new data center. Security of data was considered, but they…

We recently reviewed AV technologies and looked hard at Carbon Black. They seem ok but I still can't shake their past: Security Firm Bit9 Hacked, Used to Spread Malware — Krebs on Security We decided to try Falcon Crowdstrike, so far so good. Watch, next week they will be in the same boat.

Bring Data. I love data, but I am always amazed at how many people get stuck on what happened last time, or what they think is happening, but never think to check if the data you have matches that guess.

At the start of every quarter I block out time for likely updates. Microsoft infrastructure is monthly, I tend to plan for quarterly updates for Orion, and some stuff I might go slightly longer or shorter depending on the cadence of developer releases. I consider an operational project. Can it get bumped? Yes, any project…

That seems possible

Use an incognito window to bypass most places that count your visits and stop you after a number. 

This was my favorite session this year, thanks!

SW team is not considering "The spare resources on hosts in this cluster are unbalanced." as one of the issues. :-( I would not call this a host issue. Sounds like a cluster issue to me.

I didn't give up with my screenshot band aide, but I haven't gotten it working the way I want. That said here is what I have, maybe someone else will be able to take it further. In the PowerShell below obviously you want your server and the Netpath item you want (adjust the /1/1/ part), the date time is built, and it opens…

From the comments that the FCC got, 99.7% of real live unique people agree.

I am a few inches shorter, and find that there's way to be comfortable on a plane. I can't image adding even a little more height. Flying isn't fun anymore, its just a chore.

You want to enable the NOC view on the dashboards. I don't have the links to them right now, but you should be able to search and find the knowledge articles with NOC and your dashboard type

Depending on how you are set up to suppress CPU and Ram from altering the 'green' you may also need to tweak the nodes default thresholds. Set custom thresholds for devices Personally, I would leave the roll up status. I would tweak the thresholds to be green for normal stuff in the node and assigned apps. I would build…

You are looking for the Status roll up mode Status Rollup Mode in the SolarWinds Platform