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* What – What are my goals? [By far the hardest piece for me to grasp]* To maintain an above average standard of living for my wife, our pets, and I, meaning there is a decent amount of discretionary income. * Be creative in my work * Live in Minnesota near the Twin Cities * Would like to focus on being a monitoring…

She will be more upset if you get the questions wrong

Would love to have this. Sometimes using browsers on Android leaves a lot to be desired.

Congratulations dcschwalm​

Tired to answer question 20 yesterday before leaving Paris, but it was confusing and I had the same problem everyone else did. I was glad to see DanielleH was on to top things as usual when I landed in Chicago. I got 20/20 and can't wait to get my tickets so my wife and I can go on another adventure soon!

I hate using the phone. I really like talking to a person face-to-face. In a WFH situation I have to use the phone a lot more and my comfort level with it is getting better. This isn't to say that once I get on the phone with someone I won't talk to them for hours, but it is or was the start of the call I couldn't get…

Note to graphics department - Liberty Island is in New Jersey, USA. Just sayin' - Yes I grew up in Jersey and yes it is a point of contention with folks from the other side of the river.

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To get very exact the proposal is to relieve the Internet Service Providers of the requirements under the Communications Act of 1934 and put them under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. To say that the Internet was fine until the government got involved is a misdirection. The Internet has always had the government…

I have this urge to tell wabbott​ to select an active new Thwack Member at random and give them 12,000 of my thwack points to use in the store! They could get those socks or Windbreaker! Congrats to everyone else, and thank you for the honor DanielleH !

I have several custom properties. The most frequently used ones are ServerRole and VolumeRole. ServerRole is used to filter the systems based on things like Print Server across all the offices. The idea being we can start to create IT Service views that show the state of things like Printing across the enterprise.…

My wife is always explaining to family members that "Tom had to put in lots of hours last night and is still recovering." She is supportive and is very forceful about me taking care of myself. She makes sure I have food and drink, in the past actually running dinner over for my team and I, and also to get enough sleep.…

With our licensing agreements the cost of remaining on premise with Exchange and Office products was a non-starter for the accounts. The difference is cost for the next three years made it very obvious where we were being forced. The size of our shop meant that there would be little to no impact on other infrastructure or…

I was researching an older incident in Japan around ATM thieves and came across this more recent one. Where the crooks used stolen data from South Africa to manufacture cards then used in Japan to steal $17,882,000 USD [2 billion yen]. Japan sleeps while cybercriminals get smarter | The Japan Times

Exchange Online Azure AD for all our IdP needs Dell Data Security for Drive encryption and Cylance Endpoint protection. Avamar/Data Domain for backup SPLUNK Cloud Looking forward to Meraki Wireless, VMware ESX 6.5 or 6.7, DPA, VMAN, and new edge switches throughout the campus.

It was also when I was in - twenty years ago -NAH, can't be that long ago can it?

Agreed had to look elsewhere on the site.

Done, Thanks @DanielleH 

Video on definitely. As much as possible I try to have a different virtual background on for each day/meeting. It is an ice breaker to get the conversation going. I use something that is of interest to me and try to make it inoffensive. The green screen also helps eliminate the background clutter that is my office. Folks…

Old guys like me avtually had those older products so it wasn't too hard - even if some-timers did kick in?

@"rschroeder" I too loved Star Trek Picard subscribed to CBS and then binged watch all of it in the mornings for breakfast. Then promptly cancelled the subscription. Already too much to view, including the NY Metropolitan Opera HD channel on my Roku. Wow the productions are simply amazing. We can't go to the MET now, but…

That is a fantastic allegory to describe what happened and how you repaired it. Thanks for sharing. Those work wonders when explaining IT to the uninitiated.

Congrats boblon​

Q16 rather disappointing. I too thought it could be one of two answers in the video. Neither was "explicitly" stated. Oh well, now its just for the points the rest of the week.

Clearing cookies worked for me. Scary part is I still remember purchasing this set of tools. I wonder if I still have one of those SolarWinds CDs hanging around in my basement at home.

I would be careful that could be the start of using the Royal WE! As in "We are not happy, that you didn't win!"

Hey Danielle, I have the same problem as robdover. My username has a space in it which is why my points are not there either. If you want to remove the space and change the username to tomiannelli that is fine with me. Just let me know.

I will say this, when we did use the product at my last job, it was a huge time saver [cost avoidance]. We really liked it.

Monitoring our Internet traffic is always important. CyberMonday isn't a big deal for us. Not as much as March Madness - Iowans are crazy about college sports. We watch the traffic using both SolarWinds NTA and the Dashboards on our Palo Alto Networks Panorama - firewall management platform. We typically contact the member…

Me too. I guess I over thought it as well.