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welcome everyone, look forward to new discussions

Gotta say, the step to mgmt isn't that bad and for me at least has been better suited to my style. I'm a generalist that enjoys being very specific for many things, but going to mgmt has meant my skill at being able to see the much larger picture and include business needs along with the geek has meant I can now influence…

History of "authorities" make sensible technology related decisions is not good.

indeed If you're in El Paso, you are closer to Phoenix than you are to Austin

oh yes - have to go back and rewatch with sysadmin in mind Kind of like listening to a keynote - and mentally replacing the word "cool" with the word "moist"

we now need to know with the use of firewall flow because our staff now need Teams but now use too many streams they used to use Skype but because of the hype are now using Teams and have discovered memes

this will be really helpful for our legacy servers with a whole bunch of teamed nics. Looks like it only applies to Windows servers though - I "think" that the bond0 interface on linux servers works ok. This will be less of an issue once we upgrade all our servers to 40G though

yes, for all of the comments for the "underlng" battles as to who should win, it was almsot a forgone conclusion that they were always battles for second place

As I am fond in saying to anyone dumb enough to listen to it over and over again..... ... Thwack is what gives Solarwinds products their edge

It also no longer references the article that was liked or downloaded etc. So if one of my templates is downloaded, I no longer know which one

My favorite perfect answer to shoot down. We moved our email to O365 - the funny part is that our users call with issues, expecting us to be able to fix things the way we used to. Now our answer is that we are "saving money" by using the cloud which means all those neat little workarounds that support used to do are no…

yep - lots of alerts equals no alerts get actioned

for me it is knowing enough about our system to see when it is not behaving and also knowing where the next investment of time and resources will provide the best return.

All done! Followed Danielle's advice on privacy settings as well

but we all know that most techies can barely read the questions if the is a period in there, so reading down to the part that always says when points get applied is much too hard

Have to be careful with this one, I almost clicked the wrong one as well, but caught it on the re-read.

yep - bookmarked for when we get out of this current craziness

So ready for Thwack Camp 2020

yep - any old internet connection by hotspot, home isp etc The application type then sets whether the app is presented through mobile device,web app, citrix or vpn. So no single solution fits all any longer.

I love that log vs metrics post Also love anyone who uses conflate in a sentence and means it. language is important, use it

DD taught me to keep looking for the big picture and not get distracted by the obvious

Wow has it really been this long - that's amazing

You mention moving Toyota from token ring - I remember one of my challenges many, many years ago was installing token ring at Toyota

that very issue is why I've been insisting that we retain full control of our monitoring environment. Currently with very little outsourcing happening, monitoring is a nice to have. As customer SLA's become more important and we monitor vendor SLA's, monitoring has become is critical production system. Which is why we are…

you know you're too geek when you notice that the computer right at the start doesn't have any cables plugged in hang on though - is there really such thing as "too geek"?

It good having questions that are none obvious Nice to have the hint as the start of your journey rather than sticking it there on the first page. Brilliant videos as well

great monthly mission - lots of really useful information

agreed - excellent question and love how you can dig around to find it. As stevenastem​ said, learning by doing is so much better. Hopefully we will be getting SRM soon, so this is just at the right time

welcome back Thwack I had the same auth buglett, as you've already reported I shan’t fill the mailbox unnecessarily Thank you @"danielleh" and @"KMSigma.SWI" for getting this incredible migration past the post. Our new world looks great 

Hands in air also but thankfully - sorry that isn't an application that is supported by our IT organization, however we can forward you to the user in your dept that supports you. Even better will be when our DLP implementation starts and all those processes that send files offsite suddenly stop working.