Geoff

Cards against humanity, however we are all of drinking age....

Kinda depends. But that would be the upper limit in my book unless you had some serious automation / devops going on. More complex and manually intensive the environment and the number should be more like 1:50 or lower.

God no. You'll be having users queueing out the door who have forgotten their pin.

Unchecky automatically selects the options in program installers that prevent you from installing unwanted junkware on a machine by accident. Unchecky - Keeps your checkboxes clear Not useful in a domain environment unless you let people on machines with local admin. But very useful for home PCs & Laptops.

I find Out-GridView more useful if you want to interact with the data.

I think it's just -Confirm. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj218610(v=exchg.150).aspx

Yeah, looks ok. You should be able to add -WhatIf to your Remove-UserPhoto and you can test it without actually doing anything.

You need a for each loop. Assuming you have a security group of all these students, something this should work. $users = Get-ADGroupMember -identity "GROUPNAME" -Recursive foreach ($user in $users) { Remove-UserPhoto $user.SamAccountName }

No you should have two sets of GPOs. Your big monolithic 'production' GPO(s). Then smaller 'testing' GPO(s) that only apply to your testing suite(or PC) / OU / etc. That way you can tinker in a fine grain way and narrow down your problems without breaking everything. You can be lazy and just have lots of small GPOs, however this has a negative performance impact on your Login times due to the extra processing required.

Linux works best with an card with an Atheros chipset. Ideally something that has an Atheros 9k chipset like this DLink DWA-645. You can view overall kernel support here: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers

There is a massive amount of difference in Quality between HPs corporate support and their consumer support. Basically if you buy consumer gear from them and have to phone up you are in for a world of pain. If you buy enterprise kit, it's all sweetness and rainbows. It's imperative you ring the right number to get to the right support department otherwise chaos ensues.. Contact HP - Phone Assist | HP® United Kingdom

I am using open source solutions, designed for the cloud so they are somewhat overkill however they scale massively. I have 3 Linux VMs: VM 1 (Centralised Logging) - Nxlog (Windows Clients), ElasticSearch, Logstash & Kibana. End result looks like this (here is a demo you can play with): http://www.neteye-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/kibana-citrix.png VM 2 (Time Series Metrics) - CollectD, Graphite Powershell Functions (Windows Clients), Graphite & Grafana. End result looks like this (here is a demo you can play with): VM 3 (Alerting) - RabbitMQ, Redis, Sensu (Sensu Client runs on Windows, I wrote my own checks in Powershell) & Uchiwa. End result looks like this:

Yeah when you RTB a dead switch you need to take everything off/out. I've sent back a DOA E2920 (I had to strip the mounting brackets and the removable PSU) recently as well as a E2920 PSU (different switch, UPS died and killed the PSU).

Yes. This is a key component in Data Warehousing. Specifically it's the ETL bit. I would imagine that if you are fiddling about with database views and ODBC connections to excel spreadsheets you are bascially doing it wrong and should start looking at setting up a Data Warehouse for your Business Intelligence using SSIS, Cubes, etc instead.

It's important to buy cameras with onboard encoding hardware, otherwise yes, you will murder your CPU. Supermicro do some nice chassis for high density storage. Supermicro | Products | Chassis |4U | SC846BE1C-R1K28B

I hate Avaya with a passion. FreePBX with Polycom phones.

Microsoft are addressing this short coming in W2k16 Server. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj884270.aspx However in the mean time there is this third party Powershell module you can use: https://dfscommands.codeplex.com/ If that is not sufficent you will have to look at the VBS Script and see what WMI objects it's using. You can interact with WMI objects in Powershell too.

Don't reinvent the wheel, there's a Powershell script on the Technet Gallery you can use for this. https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/PowerShell-Create-Active-7e6a3978

coLinux might work too. Cooperative Linux

Friends don't let friends run their SQL server in a non-HA setup.

We looked at these recently. Veeam works really well if everything is virtualised. However we also have some physical servers and some tape backups (tape handling in Veeam is a bit naff). So we considered Unitrends because of these two reasons. We decided to just carry on with Backup Exec for those machines and get Veeam though.

My Ceph Cluster tops out at 114k IOPS. But it is tiered. If I turn off the tiering I get 9k IOPS off the Nearline SAS drives in it, I suspect that's the memory caching throwing the numbers out though.

A Nearline Storage SAN would only make sense for Archive/Backup or if you are going to use a tiered storage solution. Based on your workloads it sounds like you would want a 'normal' disk SAN with Flash cache (or tiered Flash/Disk).

you need to use pgrp="groupname" or sgrp="groupname" to limit a mount to a particular user group.

You could always downgrade the security method in pam_mount's cifs call to ntlmv2 if you get really stuck. Not ideal I know, but if it means it works.