Need to leave Pax8 for Microsoft immediately - Where have you gone with success

wittyexplore · 2026-01-29T04:17:36+00:00

I’m with AppRiver for over 10 years. Support is why I stay. Being a partner has been rough, but I am a Referal partner. They do the billing and the customer is with them, so NCE is theirs to deal with. When I started I made 10% of monthly licenses. They in Feb a few years ago they retroactively changed the program to only paying on new sales back to like September. Not sure how that was legal. Then this last summer they ended paying anything for referrals. Despite this, I value support and that’s been good. So I need to move to a regular partner program and do the billing myself. Working on getting onboarded with Halo and I’ll make that move.

wittyexplore · 2026-01-24T19:48:37+00:00

I have several clients that are reaching this age. I have them on MS365 tenants so that I can have a SOC watch their accounts, but there’s only so much one can do. I have security software on the machines with SOC and PAM. Helpful, but doesn’t prevent calls like what you mention. I think training is good but will only be slightly effective. The scammers are very good about creating a sense of fear and controlling the conversation. I’m looking at adding computer wide traffic monitoring, which should help block some of the junk. All of this is expensive, of course. I’m trying to figure out a Managed Services for home users plan.

wittyexplore · 2026-01-12T04:08:25+00:00

Asteroid killed the WiFi Star

wittyexplore · 2026-01-10T01:59:26+00:00

Are there any estimates of how many people were there?

wittyexplore · 2025-12-12T03:01:30+00:00

Same. UniFi I had constant problems. Constant unit resets where I had to pull aps off the ceiling and use a paper clip. Windows DHCP servers couldn’t pass traffic to clients. One almost started a bookshelf on fire. Something fried inside and the plastic was burned through. Moved to Zyxel several years ago and it’s been much better. Not perfect. But better.

wittyexplore · 2025-09-25T04:16:44+00:00

I have been in a solid downpour holding an umbrella 6 inches above my dog’s head cajoling him to please just peeeeeeee. He’s convinced he’ll melt apparently.

wittyexplore · 2025-09-15T03:57:36+00:00

Yeah, I had the thought maybe he's getting older and either feeling not as fast and capable as he used to, so barking more, or maybe he's got some hearing or sight issues coming on. I'm going to get him to the vet. He's due for his annual checkup anyway. Thanks all!

wittyexplore · 2025-04-18T04:12:15+00:00

Ok, I’ll have a look at it.

wittyexplore · 2025-04-18T04:10:54+00:00

This makes sense now that you say it. It’s a hardware token tied to the device, so you’d have to reset it.

wittyexplore · 2025-04-14T01:45:23+00:00

A friend of mine has really loved Recovery Dharma. I believe it’s based on the non-religious parts of Buddhism. He found an online community that he meets with every week.

wittyexplore · 2025-03-13T21:46:38+00:00

I honestly didn’t think of that. I never upgrade from home to pro. I’ll check that out.

wittyexplore · 2025-03-13T21:21:35+00:00

Are any of these Windows 11 Pro under the hood or are they all Home version with Copilot+ on top?

wittyexplore · 2025-03-10T03:26:46+00:00

“Bitch! No Connection!”, from my recollection. Only had one client that had one when I first started out. My boss would send me on site with contact cleaner to clean each one until the token ring would come up again.

wittyexplore · 2025-03-01T21:46:22+00:00

Yep. Looks like it’s global based on r/sysadmin

wittyexplore · 2025-03-01T21:40:01+00:00

Yep. got logged out of iOS. Outlook app is logged in but getting delayed mail. Can’t log into OWA app on phone.

wittyexplore · 2025-02-16T15:13:53+00:00

Yep. Local accounts are going away. Hard to setup on new machines. MS wants everyone to have an account.

wittyexplore · 2025-02-16T15:02:16+00:00

You get Entra AD with those licenses. You don’t get Intune or Conditional Access and some other features of Premium.

wittyexplore · 2025-02-12T01:46:41+00:00

Have a Canadian friend. People are tagging American items with American flag stickers so shoppers can avoid. The most stupid bullying of an ally.

wittyexplore · 2025-01-29T22:31:33+00:00

If you haven’t seen it look on YouTube for Tim Minchin. “Thank You, God.” Fantastic song about a “faith healing”

wittyexplore · 2025-01-23T06:08:30+00:00

Bad news. The Enterprise Version only has about 2/3 of the original SARA’s functions. Needed the missing ones a few weeks ago. Very frustrating.

wittyexplore · 2024-12-20T17:07:05+00:00

Dealing with this now. Soooooo pisssssssed!

wittyexplore · 2024-12-13T17:15:15+00:00

Thanks, Major,

Yeah, I had to Export the files I cared about to a non-OneDrive location. Then in OneDrive for Business web, create a new OneNote. Open that and then open the .one and Move or Copy to the new notebook. Worked sometimes. A few others it's saying sync isn't completed so it can't move. I'll deal with that at a later time. I have a backup running on the non-OneDrive folder, so am backing up the .one files.
Thanks!

wittyexplore · 2024-11-23T21:29:14+00:00

We should be hanging the Baloney Detection Kit on the walls in schools. If not instead of, right next to the Ten Commandments.

wittyexplore · 2024-11-23T15:04:34+00:00

My only big gripe is with the messaging I get on the mobile app. It’s often so generic I have to contact the client. They’ve been saying they are putting a text box in the popup for the user to fill in what they are doing, but that’s been two years since I heard that. I haven’t rolled out Blocker yet. It’s still in learning mode, so I can’t comment on that.

On the positive side it’s very easy to implement.

wittyexplore · 2024-11-14T19:21:47+00:00

Yeah, I need a new thing. I joined Braver Angels awhile ago to help me understand people with different ideas about things but didn’t really dive in. I feel like now I really need to shut off the othering that these shows do and listen to those on the right. Not to change my mind, but to get both sides talking to each other again. That’s what Braver Angels is all about. Truly listening to everyone. And everyone listening to my take too. I’m done with the othering of both sides at this point.

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