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Hey there,

We have a split level home in climate zone 5 with an upstairs bathroom where one particular wall is 1/2 shared with the lower level, 1/4 shared with an uninsulated attic, and 1/4 completely exterior. Image below if it's not clear: https://imgur.com/a/lkk1kU0

Previous owners had multiple layers of 3.5" faced fiberglass stacked together between bathroom and crawlspace. Single 3.5" batts on the right hand exterior wall portion. The walls are 8" deep cavities.

The batts are old and need to be replaced. I was a little sketched out that there was nothing in between the batts and the crawlspace - some of the batts weren't properly stapled, so there was sag, and some voids.

My tho

Hey there,

Looking for a sanity check - we have two Mitsubishi hyperheat h2i multi-head heat pumps that are about a year old (30k BTU and 24k). They are rated to work down to -13.

Last night the temps were reported as -7 as the lowest, and I woke up this morning to a house in the 50s, and the air handlers recirculating cold air. The outside air temperature was reported as 0 degrees when I woke up. Two hours later, outside air temperature was reported at 5 degrees, and one of the units starting working. An hour later, the second one turned on at 8 or 9 degrees.

I had a tech come out, they confirmed refrigerant levels were normal, the air handlers were getting sufficiently hot, etc. Th

Hey y'all,

I understand that cost is extremely variable based on locale, size of house, layout of house, etc.

I've gotten a couple eye-watering quotes from popular local businesses in upstate NY (middle-high COL area) and I'm wondering if I'm getting screwed or this is reasonable. I'm going to keep reaching out for more but I'm just wondering if I should reset my expectations on what this is going to cost. No ducting in home, oil-fed baseboards for heat, no AC. Eventually would like to phase out oil system and rely totally on mini splits and electric water heater.

2k sq ft, split level home two outdoor condensers of differing sizes based on rooms served six heads total for each proposa

Hey folks,

Company got acquired and we're needing to unjoin machines from AAD/intune and domain-join them. We're in a situation where we'd like to push specific prerequisites (software, windows settings, etc) from intune ahead of the migration and have them stick around after the disjoin.

From my testing, any applications that are installed via Intune are auto-removed when disjoining. I am not sure about configuration policies but it seems like it's reverting these policies as well.

Is there a way to stop it from reverting?

It seems that if you delete an App as 'managed' in Intune, that it retains the app on the user device (don't know about config policies). If that's the case, pre-c

If you can look past the username, which was a childhood nickname...

I've got ~8 years of MSP experience from the tier 1 trenches up to engineering and management.

Most recently, and where I feel I bring the most value, I was head of internal systems for a ~40 person MSP servicing ~5,000 users. Managing business critical platforms (CW Manage, Automate, Brightgauge, IT Glue, Duo, etc.) and trying to improve business workflows & processes. I'm best as a labor multiplier, helping get more out of my colleagues and helping people have the tools they need to be successful in their position. Definitely not a pencil pusher, though; I've got project implementation experience of all kinds

Just when you think you know everything, something throws you for a loop. Hoping someone might have run into this before. Client environment is as follows:

• On-prem AD
• Azure AD connect w/password hash sync
• Okta

Client had a password leak and we forced an AD password change for all users, with 'must change password on next login enabled'. They have a number of remote users who are not on domain-bound machines. The users were given instructions to log into Okta; Okta is able to perceive the 'must change' status on the user and force them to change the password. That would update AD, and AD would update 365. Easy.

Our expectation was that when we changed the password and the hash

Hey y'all,

I live in a 4th floor apartment and sometimes keep grain on hand for a couple of months before brewing. I tend to keep it in the big plastic bags that the milled grain comes in (I know it's not ideal). I opened a bag of flaked wheat today and found a ton of bugs in it.

I was storing the bag of wheat next to a bag of flaked oats in a box, and the oats did not seem to be contaminated. I've never noticed bugs in my room, and I've generally never seen really any bugs in the apartment. I don't know if they weren't in the oats because they couldn't really eat the oats?

Anyway - I guess what I'm asking is should I really never keep them in bags, or is it more likely that the whea

Outside of a ticketing system, obviously.

I'm talking about tracking AD changes, NTFS permissions changes, etc.

Are you creating domain admins for each tech and leveraging advanced event logging, or using any third party tools? Or flying blind? I'm increasingly finding that just logging remote access sessions is not nearly enough.

Hey guys,

I work for an MSP that currently uses Lastpass for password management and IT Glue for documentation. Management is convinced that IT Glue isn't safe enough for password management and forbade us from putting passwords in Glue, so here I am. I would love to have a single solution that does both well, and I feel like the only way to get the rubber stamp is for it to be something we can locally host ourselves rather than it being cloud. Does any have any recommendations?

Hey y'all,

Does anyone have any tips, tricks, scripts, etc that they use to keep their databases healthy? My company kind of set and forgot about our servers and as we grow, we feel the pains more and more. We're probably going to just throw more hardware at it, but I'm wondering what we can do aside from that? CW support always has us truncate some tables, which helps for a little, but we don't regularly truncate them, or know which ones we should, or know if there's better things to do.

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Thanks!

Tried to set up a gathering last weekend but a lot of people were out of town.

We've got a decent collection of games (Catan, Smallworld, Ticket to Ride, Power Grid, Illuminati, Takenoko, Puerto Rico, Betrayal at House on the Hill, Suburbia, Cards against Humanity) and a decent amount of booze. My roommate and I are 25/m/working in IT and business and mostly into homebrewing, cooking, and video games. We're off the broadway N/W stop. I was thinking of starting sometime in the late afternoon and ordering a few pizzas.