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We have an Enterprise anti-virus solution regularly updating every PC / laptop connected to the network. We also don't allow users to install any software. I'd like to block software downloads and access to USB ports too but that is a bit of a political nightmare here. I've seen entire corporate networks go down because of…

Not far away at all. I'm off Monday but am enjoying a nice pint of Hobgoblin at my desk as I type. Life is tough.

They put VMWare NSX into my last place. Now they are trapped. It doesn't deliver what they wanted because the vendor wanted to sell something and the internal support people didn't understand it. Now they can't start again configuring it so will have to put up with whatever mishmash was created. 

You are missing the point. The metric is listed as "Node - Peak CPU Load", NOT "Node - Peak CPU Used". Therefore that possible answer in the question is incorrect.

More interesting. The FBI were able to track her down after being told who she was and her actually admitting it on line. Well done the FBI.

I'm frequently asked to hack into systems that clients have lost control of as administrators have left or forgotten passwords. I don't mind that but try to get any hacking training. That's just seen as bad guy stuff and gets blocked by them. I'd love to do some ethical hacking work but I look so much better in a black…

Thank you Dr. McCoy.

True. There's no such thing as a free lunch.

What shaped me. Beer and fast food. I am in shape - round is a shape.

We are lucky if we can maintain the systems to allow access at all never mind fast access. I guess it's all down to what you have to provide and how much money you have.

It looks like they are promoting features of their helpdesk software. Some links to the product documentation would be helpful as I don't really have time to spend 15 minutes trying to find the correct page before reading about the feature in question.

Agreed. It is all too common for one 'support team' to look at one part of the puzzle and not even talk to the other teams. They then just sit on it or ignore it as the problem either isn't theirs or they don't know what is happening. I try to take a holistic approach and gather as much data as possible then make an…

Awwwww. Now you are making me hungry. Would you grill it legs on or off ?

We have one application that only runs on Windows 2000. It still runs but no one is left who knows anything about it. We just hope it doesn't break. When I worked at the London Fire Brigade the software that managed all the Breathing Apparatus sets would only run on XP. The manufacturer's response was that we should just…

The problem really lays with management. They want things done now or yesterday and will not allow time for things to be done properly. Security and testing are usually missed because of this. There is never time to go back to rectify this. It would also be more expensive and time consuming to retrospectively do this. 

Love Mead. Have serveral bottles at home. Wish I had been there to see Sascha "enjoy" it. Looks like someone has just asked him what he thinks of ManageEngine.

We are using Solarwinds Kiwi syslog server.

Similar issue here. We don't have any 2016 instances as yet and there is a freeze on spinning up new VMs as we are in the process of replacing all of our server infrastructure and moving OUT of the cloud.

26/03/2018. Answered the question correctly and got a window pop up inviting me to a Webinar on the 13th March. Maybe SAM 6.6 includes time travel.

Good job too. The Master Chief was missing her (Halo reference).

Hopefully, if I win, it will be a UK version.

Not on my page 5 it isn't.

Hi, I did a UX with Ashley Orr last week on the new version of the portal as they wanted someone who hadn't any experience of the current one. She thought my input was useful (hopefully she wasn't just being nice). I did bring it up with her that I couldn't access the portal as I wasn't really a customer. They are looking…

Will only work when the vendors don't have their own interests at heart. Just look at how Microsoft ignore all the standards. 

Don't know what has happened to facial recognition but I put in a system in Northern Ireland in the early 90's that was great at picking up and tracking known 'persons of interest' throughout Belfast. I know of many occasions where lives were saved because of it. The police were able to follow players after the system…

Our DBA is about as much use as a chocolate teapot. He keeps blocking Solarwinds from accessing the SQL databases after I used it to show him how very badly configured they were. Easier to hide the problems than fix them.

Google's hidden microphone. Might be off by default but, given the 'superb' security IOT has, who can turn it on and how do we know if someone has done that.

I'd love to use this kind of feature but management here won't allow most stuff without some sort of oversight through change control. I don't think they fully understand what we do or how IT works. I had an unresponsive server recently that I wanted to reboot and they asked me to put it through the CAB in 4 days time for…

I used my ever expanding Solarwinds Powers of Intuition and decided to wait a while for this one. Maybe the Geeks were at the same beer festival I was at on Saturday. I know I'm still a bit under the weather. Great British Beer Festival London 2019 | Great British Beer Festival

Makes my decision to avoid Facebook seem more and more wise.