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Another opportunity to grow and learn. Thanks for providing this.

Very thorough information. Thanks.

sounds like a good feature that could give historical feedback, without having to pull it all together. Kind of like perfstack for history.

Yeahhhh Week 1 All Green - nice. But it brings about a question - Just how many entities does Solarwinds own. There's the Orion platform and all of it's parts and pieces then there's all these additional sites that we are being directed to for other packages. It would be nice to see a line card (with a bit of a…

Yes, or should I say YES. Words do matter. In a time when words are taken to mean whatever a person wants to call them this is a concept that needs to be anchored. I remember a time that to be a "factory outlet" the store had to be owned by the factory and an outlet for selling discontinued, damaged, surplus, etc.…

When I worked in Vermont there was a series of radio commercials with the ending tag line of "Don't be a Dave." The Dave in the office never heard the end of it. I just sent the image to the team leader up there to show in their next meeting.

Now that I think about it - WHERE'S THE BIRTHDAY VIDEO?

Congrats xmelmacx03​ In the words of that famous American "Lucky"

As we move more to VOIP we'll need to look into this later.

The best tool is the one that you will actually use. I've found that there are a lot of very powerful tools out there (In the SIEM world and many others) but you have to be very knowledgeable on the tool, willing to do a lot of custom work or pay someone to maintain it. None of these options are good for the SMB (or any…

I've seen so many companies that "know" what to do, but don't do it until an auditor "catches them." When I first encountered auditors it seemed to me like they were the enemy (at least that's what everyone else appeared to believe). Over time I learned to see them differently. Auditors are there to do their job and help…

Nice new features. With the included VMWare tools it's hard to get my team to look at a product like this. Any thoughts on how to persuade them?

I particularly appreciated the article from Microsoft about having alternatives to passwords. A pin and a card or token would be better than passwords.

All green checks - Legos, Legos, Legos, Legos . . .

Congrats kip1979​ and mattpearce​

Nice way of looking at things. It seems that everyone talks about "change control" but it's difficult to get everyone on the same page. The idea of presenting it as you would code is helpful. Let's people think of server/network/hardware/etc. changes as having revisions and makes it easier to track them over time. So often…

I just checked my point history and it's about half and half for me, some are showing 50, some are showing 5.

Good article reminding us to plan, plan and plan some more. Planning seems like a waste of time when things "just work," But without the proper planning it's like running willy nilly across a mine field. You might make it or you might not. If you could plan the path step by step it might take you a bit longer, but you are…

Nice article. I've been at this for a very long time (IT security, not writing this comment) and remember when several of those thoughts were considered true throughout the industry. i.e. patching. Ahhh, the old days when you examined what a patch did and if it wasn't fixing something that you actually experienced it got…

I took my time and spread it out over a couple of days (just to leave time for other work) I'd estimate putting about 10 hours into it total. After each update I would run the configuration wizard, just to keep things clean. The wizard was the longest part - and I always tell it not to do that final web optimization piece,…

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congrats rickstevens

Very nice! Tools like this are so important. How many problems get their start on the inside of the network. Sometimes the professionals that know better are the culprits. How many of us use admin accounts to log into our computers? Yet, we all know that we should be using an account with very little privilege and only…

Proprietary has been the watch word of vendors for a long time - it's their "secret sauce," the thing that sets them apart. By separating the hardware from it's code will force vendors to produce better products as it will be easy to switch. I believe that this will also increase innovation as you can't just build a box…

I love the convenience of online learning, but in person I always learn more.

Perfstack is very promising - I'm hoping to get the team excited about this.

Done

Anyone driven the Elio yet? 2 Seat, fully enclosed 84 MPG under $7500. Looks promising - to be released to the public in 2017.

I always stay on top of the updates and really appreciate that SolarWinds keeps moving forward. Good work.

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