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I'm already doing some of this and want to get the rest sorted. I use SAM to monitor the server with AppInsight currently monitoring AD and SQL. I want to use Appinsight for Exchange and ADFS as well but am having issues as we run Solarwinds as SaaS, I don't have access to the back end and we NAT the inbound monitoring IP…

Quite a few people here demanded standing desks. Now they are all set to the sitting position. I guess that fad passed.

But Apple were already accessing your data (allegedly). 

Training ? What's that. At my last place we had a project manager who used to watch movies on his laptop (including having headphones on) DURING meetings. A complete waste of time who would then throw the blame around when projects went wrong. It was never his fault in spite of constantly being told where he was going…

Looked at HCI for our infrastructure refresh but decided to go with HP pizza boxes and retain VMWare as we all know it, spares will still be available in 5 years and it is a lot cheaper. We can still add compute, storage and memory whenever we like. We've only got about 200 servers on our current VM setup anyway.

Lies, damn lies and statistics.

Problem is that some companies are saying "Move everything to the cloud". What they then believe is that they can get rid of all those 'expensive' support people and save money. WRONG. They will need to keep those same people as they will still have to manage and support the applications and servers but will have the added…

Working from home. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out that this would be a good thing. After the initial period where you do slack off you will realise that you can do all the slacking off stuff AND get the work done. There are far fewer interruptions, you don't have hour long discussions with colleagues who don't…

Yep, looking like we will need this very soon too.

Still in GBP.

Absolutely. We should be in a glass case with a sign saying "In case of emergency break glass". Otherwise, leave us alone, we know what we are doing. Life would be a lot easier if management would stop interfering.

Thanks, Not bad for 13 months and 3 days. Peter

Don't use spotify as I buy my music and get to chose what I want to listen to rather than just rent it and hope the money goes to the correct people.

I want to complain about today's question. It was too easy Seriously though. I'm taking a look at DPA. Could be very useful.

A friend of mine swears by Redbreast but I don't see it. Not heard of the other one never mind pronounce it . I keep the scotch for cooking I might be a bit biased as I'm from N. Ireland and lived very near Bushmills for 4 years whilst at university (spend many Saturday afternoons on the distillery tour enjoying the free…

Cheers for the link. Top banana.

Seen it all too often in the public and private sector where the agency has changed someone's job title to IT Security Manager and feel that they are covered. Quite often that person has had no training or doesn't have the correct skill-set for the role.

When I read the bit (AGE MATTERS LESS THAN MATURITY) I thought you were about to go down the route of the IT person. As an older IT person I thought you were going to talk about how many older people in IT don't grasp Network Security but are in senior positions. It is funny how they talk rubbish then look to me for…

Amazon RDS sounds good but we have just installed VMWare NSX on premises so we can move all of our stuff OFF the IBM cloud. It is unlikely we will move any SQL stuff or anything else to the cloud any time soon.

Yesssss. Solar charger ordered. Now just have to hope deliveries happen before the world shuts down and we get the zombie apocalypse.

Can you not just skid the car and take out the yobs and the yuppie. At least if you die it won't have been in vain.

Blockchain is just a solution looking for a problem to fix.

The worst thing about DevOps is that management don't know what it means but still force their idea of it onto us techies who are already doing the job properly. All that happens is that stuff gets done poorly because of new tighter deadlines, nothing gets documented or tested and the end result is the users think IT is…

Wot no MS Access.

No No No. That IS a single portion.

Yes. The World Tour was just a marketing exercise but a failure as you were marketing it to people who already have the product and know how to use it. SWUG in person was a chance for the best sales people you have (us Solarwinds techies) to meet your techies and get hints and tips. Also very useful for our networking and…

Self lacing shoes not working. Now that really is a first world problem. How ever did we get by before them. It is quite ironic that you don't even have to bend over to tie the laces on trainers that are supposed to be used by people during exercise.

I'd find this useful as we have over 400 apps running and some behave very differently to others. I'm going to have to set up about 50 different templates in order to report / alert correctly.

Like the NASA project management stuff. Lots of it rings true from my experience with "project managers" most of whom couldn't find their ar53 with both hands and a map.

Reminds me of a recent incident here where some servers became unavailable due to an obscure issue and the documentation on how to get around this issue was only on one of these servers (a virtual one and we couldn't access the console). Ended up restoring the files from backup to get the details of how to fix this issue.…