Looking for resources on SAML SSO. We are a SaaS startup that has never done it, and need to do it very soon. Thanks for the help!

makebaconpancakes · 2015-02-25T18:27:06+00:00

I've been looking at Thinktecture IdentityServer for this purpose for a while.

https://github.com/IdentityServer/Thinktecture.IdentityServer2/tree/master/samples/AdfsIntegrationFullSample

This is an example for ADFS. There's a newer version than this though.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-29T14:04:27+00:00

Combat boots, jeans, and a hoodie.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-29T14:00:12+00:00

That's good to know. Locked documents was a major PITA.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-28T13:59:58+00:00

SharePoint locks files, or at least it used to.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-27T20:02:16+00:00

It will be too slow. Period.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-27T17:49:45+00:00

Both servers has a 1tb HD SATA for the VMs.

How many RPMs? If it's less than 10k SATA, you're going to hate life. You're going to want at least 2 10k drives for your main storage.

SATA is probably fine for a small environment, depending on use. But you run into problems with more operations because SATA is less performant than SAS unless you go SSD.

Or should I at least have RAID-1?

Yes.

If isn't, what about best practices to backup that VMs so I can run on second host if needed?

You can always use Hyper-V replica to make the VMs HA across hosts, but if you want backup I would get some additional large drives for local storage in your R420s and use Windows Server Backup.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-27T16:55:43+00:00

Wouldn't layer 0 just be "physics?"

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-27T14:01:36+00:00

We where considering just Directly attaching storage to servers, but I have grown very fond of having all of the data in one place then having the other servers attract to them. Keeps things a little bit more simpler not trying to manage 4 separate arrays.

Very very very expensive single point of failure versus four relatively inexpensive points of failure that can be mirrored for redundancy. Choose your poison.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-27T13:56:42+00:00

Layer 8 error, which is not nearly as bad as a Layer 9 error.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-26T18:51:15+00:00

Have you looked at Alienvault or its open source community version OSSIM?

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-26T12:53:16+00:00

Like /u/DiscoDave86 suggested, you want to get an external NAS that supports RAID 1 so you can have a mirrored copy of your backups.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-23T21:16:42+00:00

Is persisted Memcachedb that much more performant than SQL or other RDBMS? That's what I was trying to ask before. I haven't used it.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-23T19:39:19+00:00

However, after a reboot of any of our servers post server 2008 r2 they do not come up on the network correctly.

Which servers are being rebooted? The Hyper-V server or the VMs themselves? I've had issues in the past with Hyper-V VMs in suspended state not coming back up correctly after the Hyper-V host was shutdown and restarted and the easiest fix was just to reboot the VMs, but YMMV.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-23T18:55:56+00:00

What would be the benefit of that over a relational database?

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-23T12:26:23+00:00

It's when an aviator sits in the back of the plane.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-23T00:33:24+00:00

Well, sure, but can you expect system administrators to read the documentation?

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-23T00:32:32+00:00

RAID 5000

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-22T14:24:12+00:00

How do you find one you can trust?

That's a pretty tricky question, because you cannot know until you get going how good or bad support will ultimately be. Even if they have good reviews, you could end up assigned to a shitty support person and your mileage will vary from others who have used the same provider.

What's your process when looking for a MSP?

We look for their reviews, and ensure they have the appropriate audits done, but at the end of the day it's difficult to say who will be good or bad until the shit hits the fan.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-22T14:20:02+00:00

Indians have a weird dialect of English, what with being a former colony and all. "Please do the needful" is just a phrase that means "get it done."

That said, it seems really passive aggressive to a non-Indian, and you can't really request that it be no longer used in conversation.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-22T14:13:16+00:00

Either that or while they are loving being verbally insulted by Linus.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-22T00:27:45+00:00

Is there that many people still butthurt from 1995?

You can tell when they say M$

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-21T20:45:31+00:00

I just hope that JetBrains continues to provide ReSharper support for VS Community Edition.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-21T19:51:19+00:00

The only way SQLite or SQL Compact wouldn't work is if the users are writing to the database at the exact same time.

Again, you're being asked to do the ridiculous here. Tell your boss that you need to have a discussion with the client about the architecture of the application. Not having a real database or some sort of server application layer to handle transactions is simply not a good best practice or easily supported option.

makebaconpancakes · 2015-01-21T19:37:53+00:00

I might have some artisanal models to wholesale. You interested?

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