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Interesting article. It's good to know what happens on any kind of "schedule" in the entire enterprise. This also illustrates the power of community - I wonder how long resolution would have taken had you not talked to your friend that had solved the matter in his network.

Excellent as usual and very encouraging. We all have our failures and mistakes. I wonder how many of them we have deemed as fatal, that really weren't. I wonder how many times our fear of failure has kept us from accomplishing even greater things. We have to allow ourselves to make these mistakes and learn from them.…

This was quite enjoyable last year and I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes this year.

As a consulting firm we are using N-Central for this. Personally I prefer the Orion products and wonder if this would do what we need.

When I answered wrong it gave me that same reply. Clicking on the red x again only said I'd already answered incorrectly. Just now I clicked the red x and it shows the 4 possible answers and still it doesn't make sense to me.

Alerting balance is hard to achieve, but your materials are right on. Thanks for the post.

I find that users often assume that it's the network and we as network admins often get defensive about that. For me it's easier to go along and assume that it is the network and look at it as a possibility. Once that is eliminated I can better help the customer and they see me as being on their side rather than "proving…

I didn't attend this session, but plan on watching the recording. These sessions always bring something new to the table and make one think.

Another thought just came to me. I work with a lot of churches that use ChMS (Church Management Systems) in the cloud. For the very small church many of these are simple and manageable by the pastor or a volunteer. However for the larger installations many churches are finding that they have to hire a well versed SQL…

Just the word compliance makes most of us stiffen our backs, cross our arms and retreat to childhood with a rebellious attitude. But therein lies a key - attitude. If you can change things do so, but if you can't change things why let the "rules" upset you. Yes they can be a pain, expensive, time consuming, redundant, etc.…

All good recommendations and very prudent. I would put backups as the most important simply because the "bad guys" are getting smarter and trickier every day. Most people will be hit with something (if not ransomware something else, maybe even worse) and good / regular backups will mitigate the losses. Backups are like…

Knowing the information is one thing, but Google actually has a very specific left lean agenda and uses that to "direct" people's browsing. I'm sure others do as well, but all those "suggestions" are not just a computer algorithm trying to match your habits to what you are actually looking for, but are filtered to help you…

Ahh, another member of the VW family I see!

Nice write up. I'm in the process of learning swql.

In my new role I am learning a lot of protocols that I've never had to use before. This is challenging and I'm finally getting a handle on things. It feels good to go into 2020 with a better skill set and feeling more confident of what I know and understand about these things.

Good information on the "cloud." You list a lot of considerations that most people don't even think about as they select a provider, etc.

congrats @boblon

Good information and great points of discussion. The thing to remember in all of these areas are that the "bad guys" are trying to penetrate our environments as much as we are trying to provide secure and safe environments. There will always be the need for better security and no one thing is good for ever.

We do have some custom applications, but they all live in the data center.

Thanks wabbott​ for feeding our addiction

rschroeder That looks like a list of IT pride statements. I don't need to X because . . .

Nice article. I personally think that the team is the most important element on your list. With a good team there is good communications, individuals interact with others to "fill in the gaps" and ideas are bounced off of each other to come up with quicker responses and more creative thinking. As much as we like to…

Agreed - that's what we use, but like all solutions it has a lot to be desired.

I support an agency that supports agencies - so there are multiple for us and multiple for the others. It can get exhausting

Troubleshooting always goes back to the fundamentals.

There are so many levels to security - getting good baselines and maps is crucial.

I stand by that old statement - "There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computers" You can save money (sometimes) by using Uber or Lyft instead of owning a car. You can save money (if this is even still available) by using a party line (landline service many of you will probably have to look this up) You can save…

Very nice information. I really want to get a handle on swql. I haven't had a lot of need for it, but I'm sure as I learn there will be lots of cases where I find it useful. Thanks for the post.

Agreed.