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Well, we actually found out what was doing most of the CPU hammering on one of our terminal servers. Adobe reader was running in the background. User could't see that it was running. We found it by using a big comb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4OBUupicWg

John from Portland, OR. VP of IT and CIO of CashCo Financial Services. My IT team consists of me and my Sys. Admin. Don't let the title fool you, I have a ton of room to grow in my IT knowledge and probably will be receiving more help than I can give. In any case, I'm glad to be here and hope I can contribute as well as just enjoy the community.

I just found out yesterday from Unitrends that they are coming out with a new way to deploy UEB in the next few days. Apparently they have been working on a UEB that you can install on your own hardware. So we have a new server that we use for our backups, it has a LTO 4 tape drive and about 10TB of storage. Perfect for this new UEB solution.

We do have a few questions about it and we are waiting on a response. We are wondering if this UEB will allow you to use the ssd cashing feature that their appliance uses to help improve performance. Also, we are wondering if Unitrends will work with AIX running on a Risc. I should find out the answers by the end of the week.

@RojoLoco said in USG Pro 4 and our Company Security:

@jevans I hope you let your CEO read all of this thread, and I sincerely think that a call with Scott is the best plan of action at this point. And if you like to provide the sleazy sales dick's email, I'd love to sign him up for the nambla mailing list. Or mail him a glitter bomb

I haven't shared the entire thread, but I have summarized it a bit. In about 30 minutes I'll be elaborating on all of this in our meeting.

@thanksajdotcom said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@MattSpeller said:

@thecreativeone91 Bloody hell man, if we can do it you can too. It takes ~2 generations. My dad can't metric if his life depended on it. I still measure my height in feet. Still worth doing.

You don't realize that most people can't even count. Go to a cashier if they mess up the amount they pull out their phone. Try to make it easier but making it an even number and they still need to do it on the phone.

The advancement of technology has made many people stupid...

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

@JaredBusch said:

@MattSpeller said:

It's a bit morbid but I want to the see carnage

SpaceX released the video last time, so I would expect it to come at some point later today or tomorrow.

http://www.space.com/29118-spacex-rocket-first-stage-crashes-during-landing-attempt-video.html

@Minion-Queen just look in your bushes outside, I'm sure you will find the person sending you these things...

Looking at a bear in the face and not sure what to do. We have 3 older Dell R610 servers that need to be replaced. We also need to do quite a few updates/upgrades, I think. I'm trying to make it as cost effective as possible without hampering future growth and/or making us do things all over again in a few months or a year. The main thing that is driving this is, we have ran into sluggishness with our current setup. We are running 3 RDS servers with a session broker doing the load balancing. 12 branches with 60+ users total are accessing them on a daily basis. Here are what I think we may need to upgrade at the moment:

• Dell R610 -> R430 or ?
• vSphere 4 -> 5.5
• Workstation 8 -> Workstation 11
• Equalogic firmware
• Win2k8 server -> Win2012 or Win 10

My initial thought was to just buy new servers and replace the old ones, but that would leave us with an old version of ESXi. Thanks to @scottalanmiller that idea was quickly removed from the options. Any helpful tips or suggestion on this? We are also looking for a consultant that maybe able to help us, but I wanted to see if any of you may have a experience in this area and could point me in a good direction.

I'm sure this isn't enough info, but please ask for more clarification or details.

Thanks

Drinking my second cup of coffee and moving files off of an old decrepit tower to a new Synology NAS. My Sys. Admin is also talking to me, on speaker phone, about some potential consultants for a project we are working on.

@MattSpeller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

Dell has been getting much better with their reps since it went back to a private company rather than publicly traded.

Agreed from what I've seen elsewhere, but we're on our Nth rep this year alone

At my old job, about 1 1/2 ago, we started to have a new rep every quarter it seemed. Of course, it isn't just Dell. I currently have had about 3-4 Reps from our phone provider within a year. I think people move around a lot more in companies, now a days. They get promoted to manager, they don't hack it in Sales and move to a different department, or find a better company/job. Of course, that is just my opinion, I could be way off.

Thanks for the warm welcome!

@PSX_Defector said:

Don't forget to force logoffs after an amount of time. Usually Acrobat only goes nuts when its been running for a long long time.

We have it set up to force logoffs, but I'm not so sure it is working like it should(obviously ). We have to manual kick users off, quite frequently. Truthfully, I think the terminal servers and the session broker were set up incorrectly. I'm sure a few other things were missed as well. This was set up before I was hired. I really want to tear it down and build it out, correctly.

Eating pistachios.

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller said:

That doesn't seem to explain why they don't make it work,though.

It's not a bug it's a feature.

With features like that, who needs bugs.

@scottalanmiller said:

@RojoLoco said:

That also shows how shitty most public school teachers are, and why we will always be behind the rest of the world.

My private school teacher didn't know at what time one day turned into another, which meant she could never figure out AM or PM either. Literally, me teacher couldn't tell time or figure out the date for 1/24th of every day.

Was your private school teacher, Jewish? In Judaism, the day ends at sunset and the new day begins.

@mlnews said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

So are they going back to Lync? I can't watch the video right now.

They JUST released Lync's replacement today, Skype for Business. It is TODAY that they stopped Lync.

Lync showed up as Skype for one of my power users on Friday, I believe. I didn't get the email from Microsoft until today. Thanks for the heads up Microsoft.

@dafyre said:

@jevans said:

@MattSpeller said:

@scottalanmiller aren't you the same guy who did 4 grocery store runs the other day? Good grief man, you can get a whole bag of food at a time instead of a handful of carrots, it really saves time!

4 grocery runs in one day sounds normal to me... It is ridiculous that a bag of organic romaine hearts can be $4+ at one grocery store and then be $2+ at another. Gotta get those savings, man.

As long as you are not burning more in gas than you are saving running all over town looking for better deals! 8-)

I have a honda civic and the grocery stores aren't too far apart. Also, I've mentioned that to my wife... let's just say I still go to multiple grocery stores.

@Minion-Queen said:

There will not be living streaming (but a play by play by me).

Unitrends has a launch that will be showcased at SpiceWorld London that we get to be a part of!

Now I'm getting excited!

falling asleep at my desk. Just ate a lot of carbs and my office is very warm... zzzzzzz

@scottalanmiller said:

AIX only exists on RISC. Power is the only AIX architecture that there is. Unitrends has "always" (as long as I've known them) supported AIX and I can't imagine that they would be dropping that, it is a major backup source. You can do AIX with Unitrends / UEB today.

Well, that is extremely informative and helpful.