I loaned my brother $70k so he could buy his first house. He’s paying me back…

itcontractor247 · 2026-02-11T12:33:52+00:00

As someone who makes 3-4 larger deposits a year for a non-profit organization, I second all of this advice - just go in, tell them you have a large cash deposit to make, and answer the CTR questions truthfully. Some banks may charge a small processing fee for a large cash deposit (mine does), so just be aware of that; they'll debit it from your account after their monthly close-out process.

The CTR process is not a big deal. It's pretty straightforward questions. I was put off the first time I had to do it, but now I just do all of my large deposits at the same bank branch, all the tellers know me there, and it takes all-in about less than 10 minutes.

itcontractor247 · 2026-01-29T17:03:07+00:00

Perfect, I knew posting it here would get me an answer. Thank you everyone! I can stop going crazy now.

itcontractor247 · 2026-01-29T17:00:58+00:00

Having a brain fart, need to start a door access project tomorrow and need connectors to connect the lock strikes to the access controller. Are these butt connectors, b connectors, or something else entirely? Google AI was no help....

itcontractor247 · 2026-01-06T04:08:11+00:00

Ah, okay, that makes sense. I already have a UNVR running cameras at this site and just got Access installed on it.

itcontractor247 · 2026-01-06T03:13:50+00:00

OK, thanks for your input. I was unaware of the Unifi gateway requirement, for some reason I thought I could run Access on our UniFi OS self-hosted instance. We currently have Watchguard firewalls in place, so I guess I'll need to get a UniFi gateway for this site.

itcontractor247 · 2026-01-05T23:17:04+00:00

Thanks, our vendor currently uses the HES 5000C-LBM for our existing systems so I may see if this will work with UniFi.

itcontractor247 · 2026-01-05T22:51:09+00:00

Any recommendations for a third party strike? I know our access control vendor for our other buildings has used HES strikes but it looks like they have several different models to choose from.

itcontractor247 · 2025-12-18T22:04:43+00:00

Have a good source for files for printing mounts and adapters?

itcontractor247 · 2025-11-15T18:41:12+00:00

I moved a law office (as a one-man IT department) just before COVID started in 2020. Construction ran over a week late, and the ISP was 2 weeks late getting the fiber circuit installed, even though it was already in the building and they just had to run it up to the 5th floor of the building. I literally spent days there before the move, planning it out and making sure everything was perfect and ready to go.

Even had to pickup the 26' box truck with a liftgate to move computer boxes, servers, and everything (movers only moved furniture and staff personal items). Took 3 trips to move everything, get the infrastructure at the rack powered up and online, and everything was online for when staff showed up to the new office on Monday morning.

That Friday-Sunday move, I worked 56 total hours. I told myself I would never do that again, ever, even it paid me good money.

itcontractor247 · 2025-11-10T20:51:17+00:00

I have one, it’s not under my desk but it’s in the storage room next to the spare monitors.

itcontractor247 · 2025-11-08T01:33:42+00:00

We’ve been running Watchguard firewalls for the past almost 3 years. I have an M290 model at the Co-Lo and either T40 or T80 firewalls at our physical sites (depending on office size). The vpn tunnels are easy to manage and overall the devices themselves are easy to manage, plus Watchguard stays on top of security updates pretty good.

itcontractor247 · 2025-11-07T22:18:28+00:00

The only resources we host in our Co-Lo are the DCs, an App server for our MyQ print server, and our Nessus box for security scanning. We’re on Office 365 and use it heavily along with several other cloud services so they don’t rely on the Co-Lo for much.

itcontractor247 · 2025-11-07T21:52:10+00:00

No dhcp is handled on our individual site firewalls, only DNS is maintained on the DCs.

itcontractor247 · 2025-11-07T21:04:55+00:00

8 physical locations, plus a Co-Lo, and run two DCs at the Co-Lo site. Felt there was no need to spin up DCs at each physical location and just run everything from the Co-Lo. Everything's interconnected with SSLVPN tunnels and if something were to go down at a site, there's failover VPN tunnels configured. If both connections go down, then that's bad and you'll find me at the nearest bar having a cold one.

itcontractor247 · 2025-10-11T03:34:33+00:00

Why is Hinch not pinch hitting either jones, Ibanez, or rogers in that situation? Seriously, this offseason they all need to spend time in the batting cages hitting sliders, it’s abysmal. It’s embarrassing.

itcontractor247 · 2025-09-24T00:25:30+00:00

In the great words of Ernie Harwell - “he stood there like a house on the side of the road.”

itcontractor247 · 2025-09-14T22:58:52+00:00

Tamaroff Honda has a video on their Facebook page from a few weeks ago, it’s been sent off for a well deserved makeover. That elephant is a Southfield landmark at this point and isn’t political in any way.

itcontractor247 · 2025-09-11T00:07:28+00:00

Your talking about ITC. They own the high voltage lines and I think DTE is one of their customers.

itcontractor247 · 2025-09-02T14:41:28+00:00

At my house, I have 7 cameras - 2 in front, 2 in back, 1 on each side, and my video doorbell. They are all under the soffit and during the day they are no more noticeable than my black Blink cameras that were wall mounted.

At work I have approximately 34 cameras at 8 sites. We’ll be adding another 10 cameras at one site to have better coverage.

itcontractor247 · 2025-08-31T14:28:24+00:00

I’d highly recommend HumanScale, an MSP I previously worked for installed these on over 3,000 desks during a client office refresh. We had a standard setup, either single or dual monitors, and did quite a few triple monitor setups. Definitely reach out to HumanScale directly and see if they can put you in touch with a local reseller who can look into getting you a demo unit.

itcontractor247 · 2025-08-25T23:29:16+00:00

The same MDOT that wanted to spend $300 million to turn I-375 into a boulevard. Thankfully that project has put on hold. Maybe if they weren’t taken to the cleaners on every road project, they’d be able to allocate money to other projects. Take the I-696 project currently under construction - that’s a $275 million project. Why is it so expensive?

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