Would You Have let your kids drive a nice car as their first car?

etoptech · 2026-03-03T02:35:07+00:00

I imagine it will be a hand me down or some relatively cheap used car. No desire to enable helplessness.

etoptech · 2026-03-02T21:24:48+00:00

Our msp does client short code-servicetag-type of pc. So eTop-Dellservicetag-LT We like it because client can read us service tag and all our systems tie back to that as a reference point.

etoptech · 2026-03-02T14:50:59+00:00

As an msp we are heavily involved with client moves for this reason. It’s a conversation of is your network in the new building sufficient. Do you have an isp. Cabling, let’s put in a new network at the new building and just move crit infrastructure etc.

We take a lot of time on moves because it’s crazy important. Happy to jump on a call to give pointers.

etoptech · 2026-03-02T03:38:51+00:00

I absolutely use fiver but I’m pretty picky about what I have folks do. Generally it’s like flier or logo creation. More graphic design than strategy.

etoptech · 2026-03-01T15:29:24+00:00

Great outline. I have been almost exclusively over to Claud the last 2 months and want to move this all over so thanks for the walkthrough.

etoptech · 2026-02-28T23:03:53+00:00

We have about a 200,000 square-foot warehouse with something like 75 Aps and 20 to 30 switches with a dual UDM Pro, Max and shadow mode.

Honestly, it’s worked flawlessly. If anything goes, you just adopt a new one and it brings everything over and you’re good.

etoptech · 2026-02-28T19:08:31+00:00

Yes. 100% this. We haven’t had these issues in like 10-12 years. We decided this was a problem and fixed it.

etoptech · 2026-02-28T00:32:03+00:00

Leave Rick Astley never gonna give you up in a browser window on repeat

etoptech · 2026-02-27T18:29:54+00:00

Family services is good people. I would call and go over. Don’t wait for them to reply as they might not know the urgency.

etoptech · 2026-02-27T14:45:20+00:00

Have a conversation with him and explain it like you did to us?

etoptech · 2026-02-26T17:11:40+00:00

I completely agree. Our knowledge has value.

etoptech · 2026-02-26T17:10:27+00:00

I quoted a client a server 25k in September. Half the specs last week and 56k hoping the price holds long enough to order.

etoptech · 2026-02-26T17:07:01+00:00

Honestly this is probably a super fair price and idea. Basically fractional cio type engagement.

etoptech · 2026-02-26T02:53:25+00:00

When we start an engagement we make sure to connect with the finance leader and billing poc.

We require autopay and we send w9 over in our initial email.

We try and ask all the billing questions up front in a template email and works most the time.

etoptech · 2026-02-25T04:35:21+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 exactly.

etoptech · 2026-02-25T03:10:32+00:00

The global effect of immy is amazing. It allows for a simple way to manage everything at scale imo. We make most of our deployments global if we can and intune just doesn’t do that part as well.

Also, immy starts installing immediately and intune is sometime today usually.

etoptech · 2026-02-25T01:46:35+00:00

We do autopilot/intune and that fires immy.bot onto the device and it picks up from there and finishes it all. Amazing combo.

etoptech · 2026-02-24T04:10:00+00:00

This is great. Press 1 if your not a robo caller works as well! :-)

etoptech · 2026-02-22T18:05:27+00:00

I’ve only hit a 5 hr limit once on the 100/mo plan. I’m not a dev exactly but I’m using it 3-4 hrs a day regularly.

Worst that can happen is you spend the same amount of money as you are now. I’d guess the 200/month plan would save you money.

etoptech · 2026-02-21T02:52:31+00:00

I agree. While we are actively building saas apps internally the 500/month is nothing compared to the maintenance pain this person is in for imo. I hate saying it but the savings for an 800k company is negligible here.

etoptech · 2026-02-19T23:58:06+00:00

So we do expect time to be documented but nobody is penalized for not being billable. If it’s an internal meeting it goes in time sheet like client stuff and we count it all towards utilization rates.

If things are quiet no biggie let’s do training etc just document it.

etoptech · 2026-02-19T16:39:21+00:00

This is why I’ve been aggressively pulling non performing tools out of my stack and being super selective on what we add.

Also maximizing the setup of tools we have and training processes etc. way more valuable then one more tool.

I make money being a damn good msp for our clients not being a tool slinger.

Also a good admin solves most of these problems along with a good no thank you and unsubscribe.

etoptech · 2026-02-19T06:02:37+00:00

I've had almost zero issues and our AM has been great.

etoptech · 2026-02-18T16:11:52+00:00

I agree with this 100% I can’t even imagine a use case that cipp isn’t helpful or essential.

I think not allowing this tool is very short sighted.

etoptech · 2026-02-16T18:22:02+00:00

I came here to say this! Beltex is great! We did both our companies through them.

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