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To add to what rschroeder stated above (I have lots of trouble with sleep) - Look into a CBTI course (Cognitive Behavior Therapy Insomnia). I used one from The Cleveland Clinic, but there are many out there and many are free. It has helped me to get to sleep (I still wake up exhausted as I have very lucid dreams and feel…

Awesome, Thanks I'm setting them up now.

Culture is a big part of it - of recent I've seen several of the people on the team trying to push everyone to do things "their" way. We function best as a team when we each have our views and perspectives. While one person may have better (in general) troubleshooting skills than another it is that other viewpoint that…

Open eyes and the willingness to grow, change, progress. Good points you have made here.

I always right click and choose "open in a new window" so that I can show the hint on a separate screen, it's easier than switching tabs.

Expectations. We are using O365 and our customer base has been pleased. They were made aware in advance that there would be some issues and speed wouldn't be as good.

Nice new resources. I think the smart start is a great idea and will enhance adoption of SolarWinds products. Having used several of the SolarWinds products for several years ease of use is one of the big selling points. I know that I'm building something that can be maintained by others in the event that I get "hit by a…

Great article. I don't disconnect as much as I should, but in my personal life I honor the Biblical concept of a Sabbath. That is I generally have the weekend off of work and I make it a practice that one of those days I do my chores, work on projects, etc. But the other day I take off of working on things and relax,…

This is a feature that I really like for a growing or changing network. It makes organization easier.

I'm glad to see the expansion of this monitoring. Database performance is such a critical element of any network.

Congrats cpipkin​

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Nice new features. I've been playing with some of them in the SAM Beta (I really like trying out the Betas - on a non-production machine of course) It whets my taste to upgrade production.

Nice I love the classes and this provides additional incentives. Thanks!

Well written, I would add that the training that you get from the building itself has a benefit that needs to be considered in the value proposition.

I'm going to take a better look at LEM as soon as we are ready to replace our existing SIEM - It is very persnickety, hard to configure, very difficult to deal with. (I think it's written for people that think in binary)

Congrats datsde​

Quizzes are fun, ecards are ok, but my favorite thing - and I show them to the team - is a good funny video ala Tripp and Tyler style.

Nice post with interesting statistics.

Good point.

Hardware has become so powerful that the experience has been brought to the forefront as our expectations have grown to immediate response. This is a part of the culture of IT and society in general so it's critical that we look, proactively, to watch performance and experience and take action before it impacts that end…

We have BridgeWave radios that monitor the weather for us. If the rain is heavy enough they drop signal and we get an alert. (Yes, they have built in switching which will allow us to add an additional radio pair working at a different frequency and it would switch over and keep the communications, but we just can't…

I was all green except the day that caught so many of us. I even waited until late in the day to answer and my screen must have not refreshed properly thus an X.

I worked, well volunteered, for a theater in Vermont. They had their own website from which people could purchase tickets. They did charge a "convenience" fee just as Ticketmaster and others does. There are legitimate 3rd party vendors that buy up tickets and sell them at a bit of a profit. I always recommended people go…

Focusing on the disaster is one of the first things that they do when evaluating a company for DR. Sit down and determine all the possible disasters that could happen, then rank them in order of likelihood and risk. Once you have that you can build a DR that responds to each possibility and have a plan ready should it…

Wireless is in a constant state of change and re-examining is always in order. We use wireless very heavily, but still a wired connection is more reliable - especially with a Gig infrastructure with a 40 gig backbone.

Good thoughts and helpful. It's all too easy to get trapped in a single focus mindset and not look at various angles.

I worked for a company that did automatic doors many years ago. We had an opportunity to install some doors at the ATT IC plant in north Orlando Florida. The tech that we sent had done the work for years and could wire a door in about 1/4th the time of any other tech. On install day he struggled for several hours (rather…

OK, no over thinking this month. Last month I missed one question because I made it harder than it was.

In my calendar - looking forward to it. Especially learning those cable tricks, love the HDMI to 1/2" pipe thread.