THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA" - All Comments

re: My "customer" is showing

David Schrag — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:44:56 GMT

I agree. See davidschrag.com/.../information-technology-consultant-contractor-or-vendor.

re: So what antivirus 'just works' these days?

Corey — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:51:57 GMT

After major pains with Symantec Endpoint Protection 11, we've had pretty good success with Kaspersky Antivirus. It's cheaper and seems to be a solid and worthy product.

re: So what antivirus 'just works' these days?

Ian R. Wilson — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:14:29 GMT

TrendMicro Client/Server/Messaging Suite work GREAT!

re: So what antivirus 'just works' these days?

Chris Knight — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:24:03 GMT

Sophos.

The only problem I can remember having with it in the last 8 or so years is interfering with .NET 1.x assembly native compilation for AutoCAD Civil3D.

NOD32 seems to be quite stable too, but I've only been exposed to this AV for a short period of time. Quick and compact too.

re: My "customer" is showing

Evan — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:30:02 GMT

I love owning / working for a services only business. We don't resell any merchandise, we have no formal relationships with vendors, manufacturers, or resellers, and we don't get kickbacks from anybody. I think it differentiates us, at least in our local market.

re: LuaBuglight 2.0

Hilton Travis — Fri, 16 May 2008 02:44:39 GMT

I'd rather not hack security out of the OS.

I'd rather find a way to get the app to work, get the LOB vendor to learn how to write secure code or have the lcient look at a different LOB vendor who understands security and that a 17 month old OS isn't "new and we've not had a chance to test in that environment yet". :(

re: My "customer" is showing

Chris Knight — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:56:31 GMT

One of the reasons we're tainted as an industry with the Snake Oil Salesman tarbrush is this very lack of disclosure.

I for one would love to see regional jurisdictions enforce disclosure laws upon us as an industry to meet the same disclosure requirements that apply to the finance industry.

Great post Susan, thanks for sharing it with us.

re: Thoughts on pricing

April Henshaw — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:52:35 GMT

Well now that we knwo what to expect, how does one go back to not allowing certain clients from accessing the web. It's just a real pain without it oh well manual config here we come.

re: Lost your audio with the Dell IDT codec update?

LM — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:53:27 GMT

The same problem got on Windows Xp, so it's not a Vista problem, for sure. Had the same problem already years ago - installed update for SigmaTel audio, even if audio was working just fine :)

re: My "customer" is showing

Amy B — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:03:28 GMT

One thing that surprises mid-market and enterprise is to learn that the concept of as a security measure died a deserved death quite a few years ago.

re: My "customer" is showing

Juan José de León — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:06:10 GMT

One of the things that some sbsc partners miss is that in the midsize and enterprise customers DMZ are a norm.

re: Thoughts on pricing

JamesB — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:17:57 GMT

So we lose ISA, Outlook and Outlook CALS, and Microsoft increases the price, and not by a few bucks I might add, yet we (SBSC/SMB folks) are suppose to go flying out the door to buy it?

Look they took what $1,500 ISA out. Outlook CALS are what $15/ea if broken down (heck I don't know since when did we last buy any) but if that number is right we just lost another $1,125 worth of value. So we lose 2 grand worth of product yet we are suppose to pay 80% more for it?

Get over it Microsoft there are other solutions!

Susan I really don't understand how you can keep defending Microsoft's poor product quality of late, total lack of control of what is going out on WU/WSUS it appears and now taking away a huge amount of product value yet making us pay more for it.

Heck time to get all our customers on MAPS it appears since Microsoft doesn't appear to care who is legit MAPS users and who isn't anyway.

BTW as to the PC backup it was certainly talked about by enough Softie's that everyone clearly felt like it was in the product just as much as SCE was at one point.