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That is a very good point. Follow-up question. With client side AV, should I even take the performance hit by enabling AV on the UTM firewall?

I asked this question elsewhere and someone set me up with the Fortigate Demo. I am going to be ordering a 90d shortly. Checkpoint is still a front runner if the Fortigate doesn't work out. I just was looking for experiences. I have never setup a UTM, only maintained them when I gained clients...

This has been my damn experience too. It's so frustrating. And in the SMB space, Palo Alto is out of the question.

I have been on a quest for a good UTM firewall for small business 20-50 computers. My massive research has led me to the Check Point 680. I have used Juniper (Bitch to setup), Cisco (decent setup), and Sonic Wall (Soo buggy), and I have not been impressed. Anyone have any experience with the...

Sooo, how does the 3200x1800 screen handle running at a lower resolution like 1920x1080 or something close? Does the text get all blurry like it does on the mac panel? How's the glare using it day to day? It was down to the MBPr or that, and it lost due to Window's atrocious high res support...

I can just get a heavier laptop then as I have in the past. I am not carrying around a power cord with me. Before people think I have been spoiled by the mac, My last two ASUS and my oldest 2011 XPS DID/DO NOT have the problems below. I did get the Acer yesterday and it's going back. I...

5.5 hour battery life according to pc world. No dice.

That's just it, I am at a different company every day. I don't have a desk. If I could get a 17" laptop that weighed 5 lbs and had 8+ hour battery life, I'd jump at the chance, but those don't exist.. I checked out the Samsung ativ 9 today and was unimpressed. The touchpad was eh, it had a very...

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, It's usually a few gigs worth of stuff back and forth. We'll see, It looks like Microcenter has one on the floor so off I go tomorrow to play with it.

And buggy drivers. Don't forget buggy drivers and random crashing. It's like no-one uses boot camp, but they all know of it and recommend it. I actually had to use RE-EFI-IT to get Windows 8 on there when I bought it because Boot camp's utility kept screwing up the install. The whole thing is a...

The 256GB model slipped past me. I wonder if I can get my hands on it somewhere physically to test out the ssd, 80MBps is pretty pathetic if I run a VM or two. Thanks.

$3k max. I need what I need for work. I thought I would want high res and would be virtualizing all the time, and I still do, but it is just not practical for everything else this laptop has to function with. I am going to take a huge loss on the rMBP (being it cost me nearly $3k), but it has to...

There is a multitude of software I use that does not scale well to retina resolutions. I run into blurry stuff on the mac side and tiny stuff/blurry stuff on windows side often enough for me to seek replacement. I constantly run into corporate wireless networks that do not play well with the...

I currently have a MBPr 15" late 2013 and I hate it. I have lived with it for 8 months and I am now at the point i have to find something to replace it (I am not here to argue why, just that it doesn't suit me). I have been searching for weeks and have yet to find anything I'd like to replace it...

http://www.ubnt.com/unifi-voip/overview/ Anyone get access to any early test units? If so, how are they? I'm pretty excited about the possibilities, but I am not going to get my hopes up. As with everything I have ordered from Ubiquity, rev 1 is always a bit buggy.

You underestimate the grip old os's have on some companies. We have an EDM machine that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, It just got USB support and off of windows 3.1 and onto XP. It's this years model... At another company we have two mail machines, the kind you feed a list of...

I figured it out. Hopefully the poor bastard that runs into this issue will be spared the hours of heartache I endured. Remove the primary plex drive physically from the system. Boot off of the Server 2008 DVD. Repair Your computer. Launch CMD. mkdir c:\boot If it already exists, that's fine...

Let me know how it works out. The 15" version was the ONLY other laptop I considered. I have a bad taste in my mouth from the reliability of my XPS from 2011 though, that coupled with being forced into the top model for the better battery, ultimately pushed me away.

Question: Does finder search actually work for you? Example: Open a folder, in the upper right search box type something, it could even be in the damn root of the folder, you select "search this folder" when the stupid thing defaults to "everything on this mac". I rarely get results. But...

I am writing to you from an rMBP late 2013. I HATE it for a few reasons: ONE: Windows (edit: windows 8.1) can't scale worth a shit on High DPI screens and a lot of my work applications require windows. TWO: Battery life in windows is around 5 hours vs 8+ in Mac OS doing the same activities...

Server 2008 x86 SP2 Two 1TB hdd's in WIndows software raid 1. Sequence of events: The "Primary Plex" HDD dropped out of the raid and caused the server to freeze. Upon restart, selection of the "Secondary Plex" allowed the server to boot again. When the "Primary Plex" drive is removed, there is...

Gmail (and Google Apps) has been down for about 20 minutes now. They just updated their status site http://www.google.com/appsstatus Their phone lines are jammed so I can't get any more information at this time. This is the third or 4th major outage in the past 12 months. Step it up Google.

The HP 1410-24g is my go-to dumb switch. I have yet to have a single failure out of the 11 or 12 I have installed. If you want to jump into vlans and other smart switch features, you will not find something new with 24-port for $150 or less.

http://www.amazon.com/Dahua-IPC-HFW4300S-Network-Security-Camera/dp/B00G3K1XC0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1389291190&sr=8-3&keywords=dahua+ip+camera That one. Period.

Does it not show up here for you? Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Store

I wanted to share a problem I had recently because it was just off the wall ridiculous. I finally got a specific company to upgrade 13 of their computers to new Optiplex 9020's. Shortly after, they started having weird network occurrences, their Mitel Phones would reset and their wireless...

I am looking for a webpage based service, that exists or I can host myself, where I can upload pdf's to read. I want to go to this site and have a library of books, click on the book, read some of it, switch devices and pick up on the same page I left off. Does anyone know of something...

This is not possible with pfSense. I have already talked with Ermal and Chris (the main developers) and you can not run the shaper on tun interfaces, period. I will take a look at the Juniper, thanks. I pretty much have it narrowed down to Fortigate, Zyxel, or Juniper now. The good Cisco...

As with most things, there is a creative way around this. Add the "NM-16ESW" module to a router and you will be able to do most anything you'd need to for the CCNP studies. A second option (which I also do), Get a few layer 2 and layer three switches and drop a 4 port network card in a...

TLDR: Sick of Netgate, sick of pfSense. I need a canned solution from a vendor that will do all the normal firewall stuff, ospf routing, vpn tunneling with traffic prioritization, and decent general QOS/Traffic shaping. Anybody have a goto that they use? I have been testing MikroTik the last few...

The install from disk option is not available for OEM users, you get screwed even more if you buy oem. I am very used to the IT world. Yes, it is easier to have downloads and keys stored online, I prefer it, and Microsoft actually charges more for volume licensing to give you a non bullshit...

The fact that the stream installer CRASHES and it's a bitch to recover from. Three of the last 10 computers, HP's and Dell's in the last two weeks had the installer hang. The fact that you can only have 5 computers on an account and it is impossible to tell which license is which without diving...

This is an awesome tip. I went digging a while back and didn't come across that. As I said, a few of the Dells I have purchased installed fine without the creation of an account because of the preinstall included. But a lot of the laptops I have purchased in the last few weeks have all had the...

Office 2013 Home and Business, both retail and OEM give you a freaking envelope with a code inside. You need to make a microsoft account and have them stream the installer. Here's the issues I have with this. A. They max the limit at FIVE computers per account B. Install takes WAY longer than...

A T1 WILL NOT work without a freakin' awesome QOS setup. And even then, it'll be dialup speeds at peak time if even 10 people used it. The fact that you are asking this question here means you do not even have remotely enough knowledge to be tackling this. You need a microwave backhaul to even...

If $20 a month is steep for 100 computers, I'd change work establishments. For what they charge for 1000 computers, I charge for under 2 hours of my time.

Yeah. It is an Admins job. But I have over 20 networks I look after. Ninite pro is THE solution. Even if you were just updating a single network of computers, it is a gigantic time saver.

/usr/home has been touting the amzingness of Mikrotik for years. For whatever reason, I brushed over them entirely and forgot about them as I dove into pfSense for routing/firewall and engenius/ubiquity for wireless gear. After using that stuff for a while, I found out about every little thing...

Seriously, this will be your best asset if you even remotely know what you are doing. I have filtered through dozens of businesses and hundreds of home clients. And 99/100 anyone that had prior work done was in a pissy mood from the whole experience when they met me. Me treating customers with...

I thought I'd come back and update this thread because I finally found an amazing hand's off solution that works reliably. Ninite Pro Ever since they added support to look up domain computers, it has worked PERFECTLY. And with the command line switches, it is completely automated.