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I would have thought stability would be far more important than agility. It really doesn't matter how agile you are if the systems are down. Think TSB (for those of you who aren't in the UK - A UK bank who split off from another major bank then tried to move their customers to their own systems. It is weeks later and some…

We have a hybrid solution with 50,000 students accessing Office365 via AD authentication on prem and ADFS through a portal. 5,000 staff on prem in Exchange 2010 who are about to go to Office365. We will keep some high throughput mailboxes on Exchange 2016 on prem as Microsoft won't allow us to put them in Office365. The…

Agreed. If the parents taught their kids how to behave then there wouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately most of the parents are even worse than the kids.

Might as well be chipped. They can track you through your Mobile phone, CCTV cameras, card spending etc. I quite like the idea of being able to open doors, pay for stuff etc. by just having my chip read. Less stuff to carry around and harder to lose your keys. Would probably be OK until someone clones your chip. 

Nope, you still aren't getting it.

Unfollowing. I'm not on twitter so don't need to do this. However surely you should be able to use unfollow *.*

I'd love to see a robot turn up and try to do my job. No two days are even remotely the same. Every day brings even more insane users with rediculous requests (and managers for that matter). They seem to expect me to be able to make aging systems do things they were never designed to do and there's never money for new…

I guess if they had done their job properly the first time .........

Now that they have been 'caught' they come clean and try to hoodwink us with some light technobabble. My iPhone is a work one so I don't really care about it. If it dies / breaks / gets too slow I'll just ask for a replacement (doesn't cost me). I can see how someone who has paid far too much would care. Maybe having a…

Oh great, something else we don't need from them. What is wrong with buying stuff with already established currency backed by governments.

I'm in the UK and I get one a day from the same place using the same message. Number is blocked now. It's a scam claiming I owe money to a credit card company I don't have a card with. Same scam mentioned all over the net. I am on the correct blocking lists but I assume the call originates outside the UK and therefore…

What's the world coming to. I agree with you It's called a split infinitive and probably the most famous example is from the opening lines from Star Trek. "To boldly go" should have been "To go boldly". I'm picky too but, as a Brit. I do feel we need to teach our Amurkin cousins how to use the language we share.

Mac n Cheese. Probably says "Must be consumed within 3 days of opening". OK I'll give it a go.

I always assume they are lying to us. After all, they are only interested in making money. As for the Diesel 'scandal'. Everyone knew they were at it. It's just that no one had bothered to check. On my bike I replaced the whole exhaust with a race version (wider bore and titanium silencer for higher air flow and…

I do now.

Given the high number of high profile cyber attacks in recent times, was this article really necessary. I would suggest everyone would put cyber attack as their biggest worry. Pity they don't actually want to do anything about it. I've pointed out many many areas of our systems that are vulnerable but they won't let me fix…

I quite enjoy setting up good monitoring as I know it will help me when one of the 1000+ servers 'has an issue'. It's great when I can quickly find out what has happened and prove to the network people that it really is their problem ( ). I've recently used Appinsight for SQL to show our DBAs that it isn't the server that…

Of course if you type in your e-mail address to see if you are on the list they you get to be on the list.

Orion maps in HCO

Yes, just need to find the time to watch the other sessions I missed. I do prefer the demonstration type over the group of people having a chat type.

There's only one thing worse than outlaws............in-laws.

Yep, Netware 2.15 was difficult, 3.x was a bit easier, 4.x was a big improvement especially moving away from the bindary and onto NDS. 5, 6 and 6.5 were really nice to work on. eDirectory still makes AD look like a toy.

Encryption is a start but it isn't enough. You need to stop the stealing of the data (encrypted or not) in the first place. Once stolen they can take their time decrypting it. Remember the German Enigma code during WWII. The British had all the encrypted comms and were able to break the codes given enough time. OK we did…

Bit pedantic on Q4 but it doesn't specify by bytes, packet or percent. Thus there are two possible answers. Typically I chose the one you didn't.

I can certainly empathise with this. IBM sent me out to India to train some of their people out there to audit security settings on Netware servers, eDirectory and GroupWise. I spent three weeks training 7 people using really low level slides, notes and actual live mouse clicking. I continually checked to see that they…

Signed up for this presentation. It's an uphill struggle here. In a team meeting a couple of weeks ago my manager (Infrastructure and Application support) actually said "Monitoring isn't that important is it". It was funny watching most of my colleagues diving for cover before I exploded. All except for the snowflake who…

I was on a pub crawl in London last weekend when I saw this street just off the famous Brick Lane. Seemed Solarwinds appropriate.

The internet works. Just leave it alone.

Worked for me.

Yep. I think I know the correct answer but even then there could be an issue as in reality there are NO ESX servers. There are a number of Hosts and even that causes an issue as to how many they are looking for. I think this one needs a lot of clarification.