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I am here. Yes, Five Oaks is taking a lot of time, but, not as much as before. I read a book this week!
I am also doing some discerning regarding work and a new partnership which is interesting.

I am reading threads, just not posting as much.
 
Nancy said:
Writing church services, and catching up on the news here. Jae--praying for your health. This is such a supportive community, for which I am grateful. Sometimes, as virtual friends (Seeler's words!), we share things in a different, even deeper way that we do with some of the others in our lives. Sending hugs to all.
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Thank you Nancy. I have an appointment with a specialist next Tuesday.

Very thankful for all the support I've received here about this. :)
 
Pinga said:
I am here. Yes, Five Oaks is taking a lot of time, but, not as much as before. I read a book this week!
I am also doing some discerning regarding work and a new partnership which is interesting.
I am reading threads, just not posting as much.
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What did you read? I'm looking for a book for my upcoming vacation :-)
 
I recently read 'Secret Wife' and enjoyed it. I picked it up at random at Costco simply because I had nothing else to read at the moment, it was cheap, and the blurb on the back sounded interesting. It's a love story involving the Romanov family during the Russian revolution and it explore the possibility that one of the daughters may have survived the massacure.
Right now I'm rereading (after twenty plus years) Mitchner's Alaska.
 
Pinga said:
Read: Sheena Kamal: The Lost Ones
Book review: The Lost Ones by Sheena Kamal

Reading: Michael Connelly: The Late Show The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1)
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the first looks interesting, but maybe a little on heavy side for vacation reading - for me at least. My mate recently finished Connelly's book - new character - and really enjoyed it. Might give that a whirl :-) If you haven't yet read it @Pinga, try "The Heaviness of Things That Float" by Jennifer Manuel. Finished it recently & really enjoyed it.
 
Welcome happy morning!
Sunshine and cool breezes - the first of September - perhaps my favourite month.
My calendar is filling up - meetings and activities - church 'things', dancing, bowling, Parkinsons Support, appointments, and aa planned visit with my two sisters in Ontario (a couple of days in Elliot Lake, and a few in Mallorytown). I hope my eneergy level is up for it all. I find I get as tired, or worse, sitting in the lounge chair in the livingroom as I do when 'doing' something - but sometimes it takes a scheduled event to get me moving. For me fatigue is perhaps my worst symptom - and an invisible one to many people.
 
Nancy I would love to meet you for coffee but my time in Elliot Lake will be limited -- two days tops, and most of it spent with my sister. However I might be able to get away for an hour or two (coffee or light lunch - I think they have a Tim Horton's).
 
So, folks, I continue to spend significant time at Five Oaks; however, now I am back to doing some of the work that I had planned on doing. It is wonderful to have staff now doing the running and execution and I only have to be engaged as a second opinion. (or for me to engage them for a second opinion).

Tonight, i put a big step forward into moving to O365 in the cloud, reducing our support costs, and giving better functionality. The prerequisite has been cleaning up active directory and exchange accounts which were a bit of spaghetti with alias' and access from long departed staff still active. I believe that with the last ticket that I opened for corrective actions, we are almost there. Hallelujah!

The space is looking spiffier, as well. People are engaged and seeing the results of their actions. We need bookings to be higher than they are now, but, they are coming, and guests are returning. The word is getting out.
 
I am in awe of people with knowledge such as you have pinga! The inner life of computer systems is so mysterious to me!
 
Pinga said:
Tonight, i put a big step forward into moving to O365 in the cloud, reducing our support costs, and giving better functionality. The prerequisite has been cleaning up active directory and exchange accounts which were a bit of spaghetti with alias' and access from long departed staff still active. I believe that with the last ticket that I opened for corrective actions, we are almost there. Hallelujah!

The space is looking spiffier, as well. People are engaged and seeing the results of their actions. We need bookings to be higher than they are now, but, they are coming, and guests are returning. The word is getting out.
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I think our parent company is coming closer and closer to going to 365. We likely won't pull the trigger ourselves until they do, though there would be benefits given how decentralized we are.

Once I retire, I hope I have the ambition to keep using my skills as you are, but I am finding my interest in geek stuff waning as I age and becoming a user, rather than continuing as an admin, is more likely.
 
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Simple explanations follow

O365 = Microsoft Office 365 which is Microsoft Office products including excel, word, PowerPoint, and may include sharepoint, skype
Active Directory = Microsoft Active Directory which hold all the accounts, their passwords, what emails accounts they can get to, files on drives, and lots of policies
Exchange = Microsoft exchange, think email
 
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