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the only problem with chucking more hardware at it is its difficult to scale it. If the code is horribly inefficient, untested at scale or just plain badly coded, throwing more hardware at it impacts much more down the line. Its easier to make the server bigger, but then that impacts the storage and all the other…

its interesting that WiFi actually has much better basic security than a wired network. At least pretty much every AP allows mac address filtering etc Simple solution to stop drive by plugins would be to remove all public plugs and use wifi Way cheaper than a huge NAC system,

baselines are an extremely useful tool, but it really depends what your end goal is. There can be a tendency to view anything outside the norm to be a critical event and the default baseline thresholds can get incredibly thin. We had one UPS that was configured just using baselines - its battery temp thresholds were set…

I thought AS400 was twinax like S34/36/38 Of course I also remember when AS400 was announced - lordy I'm old.....

one word . . . patchwork

just starting to look at what we can do with Delve and Sway etc Its good to see the constant stream of improvements coming to O365.

Thanks for the link ecklerwr1​ that looks that a really helpful tool I'm glad jgherbert​ put NTP in there as well. I've been fighting this corner for a while, so many folks just assume Windows Time service is enough.

I noticed the lack of change control

I have a similar mindset to rschroeder​ Creating a policy such as "Cloud First" completely misses that point and make technical decisions into govt policy - which means its stupidly difficult to get back from when the next big thing comes along. The choice isn't cloud is always best. The choice has to balance…

actually I meant they literally don't add up. You can total the points listed and it doesn't add up to the total shown and I haven't even got around to spending any yet! My math is pretty bad, but......

the other "extra" is staff time needed to make the tool provide its ROI. Many toolsets rely on admin skill to get the best out of them, but a less skilled person will get much less ROI.

agree with the others there, windows server and its admins are constantly seduced by the shiny GUI. Give me an autobuilt, autoscaled infrastructure every time. Out with the cattle !

this one looks really interesting - they get better every year

awesome video! There seems to be less and less of Patrick each successive year. maybe it's just the "experience"

I'm just hoping there are some in stock when I get the points

I noticed that my points are not getting assigned from either last week or this week. Is there anything else I need to be doing?

For reference, this is the episode where sexy tardis came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor's_Wife

Like he said - and remember, don't blink Best episode ever, Moffat is a genius

I had to watch one of those videos twice to figure out that I already knew the answer

I know this is GoT themed, but the House Sysman etc reminded me more of House Atreides, House Harkonnen

it sounds like it would work for apps that are happy with high latency when data is not in the same location. Moving bits of data into the cloud will always have those issues to contend with. That and the sheer volume of data.

key to this type of presentation - understand your target audience 11 on the geek scale to an audience of none tech BA's is guaranteed resistance Talk business to business folks, tech to techies

interestingly Landesk Servicedesk can be setup to work pretty much how you'd like (we use the same product) But now Ivanti own both Landesk and Heat - and it looks like Servicedesk doesn't have much of a future any longer

interesting discussion. I got here from reading the third article and doing revision reading

I found the exact text on page 7

the last monthly mission on this platform! Can't wait to see what the new one looks like

today really was a guess, but correct. Better than I did on Tuesday :D

Thankfully general holiday impact on us isn't huge, but even so we are starting to move more and more of our static content out of our DC and into services like AWS S3/Cloudfront. Also using WPM with external EC2 instances for monitoring our applications.

How about Application & Server Support ? Our team really does support both servers and most of the applications that run on them - but we decided against that particular name