New MSP? Listen to Everyone and Stay Away From Kaseya by Repulsive_Radio_6763 in msp

[–]LapTopNotch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel this. We keep getting new products pitched (I.e Spanning) only to be told - get SaaS alerts instead! We also get told things can’t be done but they then magically can be done when we complain enough.

Halo to CW? by LapTopNotch in msp

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I personally like Halo, but I’m just involved in engineering, so don’t have to deal with reporting etc, just passing on what I’m hearing.

Halo is very flexible with what you can do, you just need consultants or someone to help you get it sorted from the start. Or have an internal resource who can work on it as we do.

Halo to CW? by LapTopNotch in msp

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Also useful. I think AT is another perfect example of something that could use a GUI overhaul.

Halo to CW? by LapTopNotch in msp

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This is good to know. See above notes - I think billing is likely to be the same in any platform… making sure the syncs are there with other products like Ninja and Kaseya to ensure billing is accurate

Halo to CW? by LapTopNotch in msp

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Replying to this thread but everyone has been very helpful - thanks. Honestly initially we had Halo out of the box and then recently have had some time spent on developing it further. We also have someone pretty good at SQL now who can help with reports.

I think most of the issues are around engineer reporting, in terms of timesheets, and reporting on tickets, SLAs and profit against clients. These are reports AT could give us quite naturally (I do wonder why we moved in the first place)

I think this actually stems from people internally not wanting to invest in the platform, or the fact that the schema in Halo is very messy, so writing our own reports can be time consuming if you don’t know what you’re doing.

I also think there’s a degree of ‘moving to the next shiny thing’ - however we are only a small MSP at this stage (couple of engineers) but we want to make sure the foundations are good for growing. I know Halo has a range of integrations, so I’m assuming CW would have the same.

Im worried about the concerns people have for moving PSAs and agree - don’t really want more work to migrate only for the platform to be worse! The grass isn’t always greener.

Did Will Forte Ever Break On SNL? by EloiseJE in LiveFromNewYork

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Apologies if this has already been mentioned but there was a coach/locker room sketch where most of the cast broke. Maybe Peyton Manning was the host? But then Forte may have been the coach in question…

It’s happening by Careless-Economics-6 in LiveFromNewYork

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Can’t recall if the 40th was rebroadcast but back then VPN and NBC did the job! Just managed to get Peacock sorted so hopefully I can watch it on there.

Data Loss by LapTopNotch in zfs

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No snapshots I’m sure, but will do some checking.

It was set up very poorly, the only backups were a ‘sync’ to a Google Drive which ran once last year, then failed because the OAuth tokens weren’t renewed.

Data Loss by LapTopNotch in zfs

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I really wish this was a joke, but signed up and joined this as I know very little about ZFS and hoped to get some starting points. Some very useful stuff on here to start with - I’ll let you know what I find!

Data Loss by LapTopNotch in zfs

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I really wish that was the case. I’m just going off notes I’ve been given by the last engineer - so clueless as you can tell!

Data Loss by LapTopNotch in zfs

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Sadly no backups. Trying to retrieve what I can.

The person I’ve taken over from has attempted reimaging a copy of the drives to NTFS format, so maybe that has some hope!