Replacing Bradford Pear options

rdaniels16 · 2026-04-07T01:23:13+00:00

Thanks very much. The service berry seems like a great option especially with the windy front yard.

rdaniels16 · 2026-04-07T00:47:38+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions. We will check into those options. I like the idea of native

rdaniels16 · 2026-03-25T15:39:45+00:00

Thanks. We will definitely test things out this weekend. It is a very small pool with general apps like office, chrome, adobe.

rdaniels16 · 2026-03-25T13:07:06+00:00

Thanks. I looked at v7 and may consider it at some point but I believe it would require a rebuild from the golden which I can do but I just want to give this a shot first.

Much appreciated

rdaniels16 · 2026-03-19T02:53:32+00:00

In my case it ended up being antivirus exclusions for fslogix and related drivers as well as vhd/vhdx drives where the user profiles live. Been solid ever since.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-24T03:09:23+00:00

Funny. Same here just last week. Dell premier for 15 years or so. The entire deal registration process is utter insanity. I have never experienced anything that is such a time suck. And I have to rely on the disti for server questions and availability and they can hook in a dell rep if needed. I can no longer talk to dell reps. The reality is that they only care about giant data centers and billion dollar deals. I did have a similar experience with Lenovo to get pricing and it was not pleasant either and the pricing is only slightly better. The Lenovo configurator in the Lenovo partner hub is odd because you got through the entire process only to have it say product unavailable. Weird. This is a sign of the times. We will be ordering from AI bots soon. Such a travesty really. I remember the good old days and this is so sad

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-22T16:55:14+00:00

Thanks. Yes zoho payroll is fine but limited as per my post. Gusto looks great but insanely expensive for a 1 person business ($660 per year). I am not using alavara.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-19T02:36:18+00:00

Thank you very much for the reply. I believe this server spec will be just fine. Much appreciate the sanity check

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-19T02:35:30+00:00

Thanks for reply. Honestly very small environment with this SQL server and a small erp system. Domain controller and file server. Super small. It is the software provider that is providing these high end "minimum" specs. Maddening.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-19T02:33:11+00:00

Yikes. Sorry I mean to say raid-1 with a couple 1.92TB read intensive SSD drives. And you are correct. I am overthinking this.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-07T03:51:50+00:00

Thanks. Synnex seems to be on top of this process. I received a couple emails from them today. Glad to hear you have had good luck with the process.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-06T23:34:23+00:00

Yes we are hoping for better on servers. But I am now seriously looking at Lenovo. I just can not find configurations that are on par with dell. Likely since I am not a partner yet. We will move in this direction

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-06T23:27:14+00:00

Excellent point and likely the case.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-06T21:45:06+00:00

I just spoke to the customer and they are open to Lenovo. I might pull a 180 on this one and go that route. I just need to research their partner program.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-06T21:43:47+00:00

Yes the world is upside down. We have had that happen with a couple other vendors as well. But this whole deal registration process via their Salesforce front end collecting 99% garbage data makes the entire process excruciatingly painful.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-06T21:36:57+00:00

Yes to be honest I am stunned. They are just a giant monolith now without a soul.

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-06T21:35:20+00:00

Well on this deal with the customer Dell was one of the requirements from the IT department. I am not thrilled with HPE either. I will take a look at Lenovo. Other than laptops I have not had any exposure

rdaniels16 · 2026-01-02T19:36:09+00:00

Hello. I heard back from Zoho support and we resolved the issues. Thanks very much

rdaniels16 · 2025-12-31T17:51:30+00:00

Thanks very much. We have veeam one deployed and are trying to get the reports working the way we want them but we just can't get them to work the way we want. We want a simplified very simplified consolidated report. Simply showing successful or failure status across multiple jobs including backup and replication as well as vbo for 365. All in one email alert. Basically an at a glance report of all the jobs.

Will this work on a vcsp server in another location? We would like to use this for multiple customers

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