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  What are you using for Documentation?
  • wirestyle22

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  Has any of this stuff been fixed? https://mangolassi.it/topic/16307/i-hope-wiki-js-does-not-fail https://mangolassi.it/topic/16033/wiki-js-not-saving-colors https://mangolassi.it/topic/16245/wiki-js-editing-works-poorly-on-ios
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  Incoming call doesn't work
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  How to config DSS keys on Yealink handsets from FreePBX
  voip freepbx telephony yealink • • 360col

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  @bnrstnr said in How to config DSS keys on Yealink handsets from FreePBX: You could set them in the phone's web interface. That's how I did ours, granted we only have ~20 phones, so it was a set it once kind of thing that took like 3 min per phone. EDIT: Didn't notice the "from FreePBX" bit. Sorry But still endpointmanager is only for the face template. Anything you sent their applies to all devices. To set a specific key for a specific extension can only be done from the UCP and only if you have permission to see that extension in UCP.
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  Enterprise password management
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  @networknerd said in Enterprise password management: @travisdh1 said in Enterprise password management: LastPass Enterprise will integrate with your Active Directory environment. You'd be able to delegate password permissions by AD group. While I use it, I'm hesitant to recommend it. Don't know what the other well known names are able to do in the space. I'd assume that Dashlane would have the same capability, but I haven't looked into any others in a good while now. Dashlane should be able to compete pretty well with LastPass, but I seem to remember it being more expensive for some reason. Maybe that has changed in the last year or so. They have a 100 free local server still but pricing can be expensive.
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  Too many wireless clients
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  @coliver said in Too many wireless clients: For this environment does the "gimp"-ing matter in the long run? It's still on top of enterprise hardware and add the manageability from the Unifi Controller that they may want. Just thinking do they need the features/performance of the ER-4 when a USG will be "easier" for them to manage? I would posit that the USG is not easier to manage
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  Average Rate for Emergency Service
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  @fateknollogee said in Average Rate for Emergency Service: @jaredbusch said in Average Rate for Emergency Service: @JaredBusch Just curious, what app is that screenshot from? Are use manage engine service desk for my Helpdesk. I actually would like to migrate to something else but have not been given the go ahead to do so because of cost of my time to do that.
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  Diagramming Tools for Linux
  linux visio diagram visio alternative dia • • EddieJennings

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  Because I'm annoying and like things that are text based I like graphviz. However if you want some really nice looking stuff I've used cloudcraft.co. It's AWS specific but has blank shapes as well.
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  Installing Cloudberry Backup on Fedora 28
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  @jaredbusch Thanks. I'll try again using a minimal install. Hetzner Cloud lets you mount your own image, so I can test with a minimal install. I'll create a snapshot, and always start from that.
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  Yelaink firmware version 84 released with a lot of new features
  yealink firmware • • JaredBusch

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  Yealink firmware only because of GDPR
  yealink firmware gdpr • • JaredBusch

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  I personally have refused to comply with GDPR. There's a weird irony in that so many non-EU companies (specifically American) felt the need to comply just because, as I saw on SW oh no, the EU gonna come after you somehow! yet when the EU implements a pain in the butt copyright law, suddenly "well, those laws don't apply to us." So I moved my company location from Czech Republic to Russia, and I'll sell to EU citizens anyway. I say, bring it on:
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  Solved Error This Operation is only allowed for the Primary Domain Controller of the domain with Add-Computer
  powershell active directory add-computer • • scottalanmiller

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  Turns out that it needed the -Credential flag, which Microsoft doesn't document as a requirement. This worked find... Add-Computer -DomainName "mydomain" -Credential mydomain\myusername
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  What do you utilize your COLO for? What defined a use for your environment?
  • TX1TGUY

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  @nerdydad said in What do you utilize your COLO for? What defined a use for your environment?: @scottalanmiller Each rack is locked up and only the tenant and the owner can enter the rack. Still, you can get at them. It's silly and risky. What's the upside to doing your own bench work, off site. Over having bench professionals who are on site and ready to handle things immediately? And you are asking third party people to deal with the security of other third party people. It's just a lot of risk, but what is the benefit?
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  Small colo infrastructure for SaaS
  colocation saas • • Pete.S

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  @dustinb3403 said in Small colo infrastructure for SaaS: @pete-s said in Small colo infrastructure for SaaS: This is how @dustinb3403 suggested replicating VMs between hosts: While this is accurate, it also misses on the fact that he would still have his NLS server sitting, collecting backups on whatever schedule. Other than that it is accurate. In Scott's proposal you are making the shift from migrating the entire workload (which is essentially instant) to migrating the database only. In his case, the load balancer is the weak link in the chain. Granted these don't fail often but it isn't something you have control over either unless you provide your own for the COLO. 2 haproxy VMs (one per host) and keepalived for failover
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  Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6
  postfix • • fuznutz04

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  @jaredbusch said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6: @fuznutz04 said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6: @dustinb3403 said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6: @fuznutz04 said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6: @dustinb3403 said in Postfix having trouble sending to IPv6: That would indicate that IPv6 isn't supported. Not supported on PostFix itself, or in the actual server network config? Just taking a guess, I would say via the networking. So I will try this with both IPv4 AND IPv6 listed and see what happens. Specifying IPv4 only works, but I will try both. Thanks guys. The point here is does your server have routable IPv6 available to it? The postfix instance seems to have IPv6 enable. Your DNS seems to return IPv6 information. Does your router have IPv6 enabled? Does your ISP support IPv6? This server is a Vultr box. Not using the Vultr Firewall. I just noticed in the Vultr manage page, that IPv6 is available, but no subnet has been assigned. That will do it!
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  Cloudberry Backup Linux
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  @obsolesce Wow, this looks really good.
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  Colo centers around Cleveland, OH
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  @dustinb3403 said in Colo centers around Cleveland, OH: Hey I didn't say the reasoning was correct, I was just pointing out the reasoning that @travisdh1 said he wanted to use specific vendors. That was my point, though, that that vendor selection criteria is what is bad. Selecting vendors only by not being good choices? That doesn't make sense.
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  Yealink T46S Voicemail Icon Disappears Randomly
  voip yealink sip phones yealink t46s • • syko24

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  @JaredBusch - The Endpoint Manager has it Enabled. I set it as disabled to match your settings to see if that fixes it. I will report back later with the results. As always thank you for your assistance.
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  VeraCrypt or DiskCryptor for External Drives
  encryption users external storage • • DustinB3403

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  I use Veracrypt. It's compatible with TrueCrypt but It uses his own encryption mode by default.
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  What runs on port 6270?
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  @momurda Docker I think. There's some github scripts that use that port. Pretty specific for a guess like that though.
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  Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016
  office 2016 project 2016 coexist • • travisdh1

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  @travisdh1 said in Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016: @dbeato said in Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016: @travisdh1 said in Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016: @dbeato said in Frustration with Office 2016 and MS Project Pro 2016: I also used the ODT as below Download setup.exe /download configuration.xml Install setup.exe /configure configuration.xml Just to confirm, that did work. Have a cookie on me. I just had a kitkat so yeah!! Welcome to the Dark Side. White Chocolate KitKats are where it's at
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  EdgeRouter L2TP VPN can't pass IKE phase 1
  vpn edgerouter lite l2tp edgeos 1.10.6 • • Romo

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  Yeah, I didn't find strange it reverted to using the old config, what seems strange is that it is not even working on a firmware version it used to work with and with a config that used to work as well. Really thought the downgrade would have made it work again.
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  CockroachDB ?
  cockroachdb • • Emad R

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  @emad-r said in CockroachDB ?: @scottalanmiller said in CockroachDB ?: that is definitely a great UI, very nice. I just added 3 nodes cluster in 2 mins, very easy too. Bumping up my capacity Definitely worth more research. The only real pitfall currently is no admin tool GUI to manage it and create DB with it, all third party and all with errors when connecting. You can only use there native cli which works for developers, that wish to create new apps with it, but not existing users.
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  Question about weather or not I should enable write-through mode on a RAID1 SSD array
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  @dave247 said in Question about weather or not I should enable write-through mode on a RAID1 SSD array: @travisdh1 said in Question about weather or not I should enable write-through mode on a RAID1 SSD array: @pete-s said in Question about weather or not I should enable write-through mode on a RAID1 SSD array: @dave247 said in Question about weather or not I should enable write-through mode on a RAID1 SSD array: @pete-s said in Question about weather or not I should enable write-through mode on a RAID1 SSD array: @dave247 All enterprise SSDs have power protection caps so that is an expected feature. If the raid controller cache makes an improvement or not depends on the workload and the size of the cache. I think the 3.84TB drives have 4GB cache internally. That's large compared to the RAID controllers cache. What do Dell recommend? I haven't asked Dell what they recommend. The H730P has 2GB and the H740P has 8GB though. Give them a call. A little more than 3 years ago I spec'ed a computer with 4 SATA SSDs in two RAID1 arrays and I remember that they were adamant that I get the H730P controller. Machine was an R630. Of course they were, they're job is to sell you thing, or more expensive things, than you really need. That's kind of what I was thinking.. though I have had many times where vendors like Dell just don't do that. Sure they want to sell you stuff but it's not good to constantly take advantage of people either as it will catch up to you one way or another. Case and point, I over-spec'd a system a while back and my Dell VAR suggested I go with part X because it was just as good as part Y only a lot cheaper. A VAR might just want to do a good job. But it's more complex than people say. It's never about "more expensive", but it is generally about better margins. Which are impossible for end users to determine. The cheaper hard drives might have had equal or better margins than the expensive ones. We say "expensive", but that's dumbing down something that doesn't need dumbing down, and implies that we can easily tell when we are being led for profits based on the resulting price, which is incorrect. There is every reason to believe your VAR was just doing a good job for you. But the result of a lower price doesn't tell us in any way if they or Dell themselves did something purely in your interest, or also in theirs. And there is always the possibility that the more expensive drives offered something that would have been beneficial to you.
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  Check my 2 min audio theory on Containers
  virtualization docker container containers • • Emad R

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  @flaxking said in Check my 2 min audio theory on Containers: @scottalanmiller said in Check my 2 min audio theory on Containers: @flaxking said in Check my 2 min audio theory on Containers: What you're talking about is one aspect of part of implementing DevOps that is often misinterpreted to mean the whole of it. And yes, it is stupid to call that DevOps. That's just Ops using different tools. I see it as the opposite. Patrick's core DevOps... "Thanks to the devopsdays conference, the idea of devops seems to live on. While talking with other people about it, I realize that it is difficult to frame it within the current IT landscape. At lot of the ideas are coming from different kinds of emerging technologies (T) and process management (P) approaches. For me the two most important observations are: there is a increase in feedback loops between business, all parts of the delivery process and operations thanks to this feedback loops we increase the quality and speed up the flow" This is the core of DevOps, not well described, but pretty clearly about IT, not development. This is the core. Very, very loosely defined to the point of useless, sure. Then things like DevOps talking dev itself is the extra, the tack on later. It's not "part of" devops, any more than it is of any operations. And just how operations doesn't cease to exist without developers, neither does DevOps. I believe everything on that page is all meant to be within the context of companies doing development. But I agree, the core of DevOps is about Ops and Business practices. However, I firmly believe the name DevOps comes from Ops and Development working together, and thus the reason why discussions of DevOps implementation specifics centre around companies doing software development. Though just based on that page, I could see why someone could still take a different view. However, I consider The DevOps Handbook to be the definitive source, rather than notes on the initial discussions. I think doing that makes DevOps a pointless, useless concept. Hopefully that's not what he intended. As an ops practice, it has tremendous value. As a merger of dev and ops, it's just bluster.
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  Question about server hard drives
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  For me it would depend on the redundancy level of the RAID along with the age of the drives. I'd also make sure they're all the same speed (and ideally size). If you're using older drives then I would at least dedicate one hot spare and have at least another spare offline, ready as a replacement. If you're not under time pressure then why not just order it and see if the hard drives work with it? If there is a firmware issue then you'll find out right there. I've seen enterprise level hard drives last in excess of 10 years (although I can't vouch for their performance at that point, it may be affected), so I think it's worth a shot.
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  Looking for method to backup Azure SQL database to another location or service
  backup azure sql backup and disaster recovery • • JaredBusch

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  What account the sql account or the azure login?!
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  Fedora 29 Workstation...thinkin' ahead
  flathub snap fedora29 • • FATeknollogee

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  @jaredbusch said in Fedora 29 Workstation...thinkin' ahead: @scottalanmiller said in Fedora 29 Workstation...thinkin' ahead: @stuartjordan said in Fedora 29 Workstation...thinkin' ahead: @scottalanmiller how would you update and install packages without dnf, I use Ubuntu and would be weird if they removed apt... Ubuntu is headed in the same directly. You'd use SNAP instead of APT. But how it handles things like the kernel, I've no idea. This process is only for applications. I would assume that you still use apt or dnf for system updates. There is no apt or dnf... to get updates for the OS, you can run: rpm-ostree upgrade
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  Why you don't need a VPN or not?
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  @pete-s said in Why you don't need a VPN or not?: Thanks, I have to think about this some more. It's a big chance. LAN-centric security thinking has been preached for so long, it's an assumed starting point to network design. Entire "must have" product families were based on it, like Active Directory and SMB protocols. Most people just assume that this kind of network will exist and some products nearly require it (Quickbooks, for example.) But as someone that has moved away from it for many years, it's so freeing to not have it.
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  Looking at New Virtual Host Servers (ESXi)
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  @phlipelder said in Looking at New Virtual Host Servers (ESXi): @wrx7m said in Looking at New Virtual Host Servers (ESXi): Should I stick with 2 CPUs? We currently have 4 cores per CPU and 2 CPUs per server. I would be looking at increasing the core count, too. I don't think adding pCPUs would benefit me. A pair of 6134 would avoid the Windows Server core tax. It’s tje nest bang for the GHz buck and our goto for most builds. Need more pRAM then 6134M to gain access to 3TB per node. That would reduce CPU performance though, in order to get access to RAM sizes above 600% of his current need, not much of a benefit.
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  Install Chocolatey on all Domains Computers PS
  powershell chocolatey powershell remoting • • dbeato

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  The specific package adobereader is a horrible example though. Because until this month, you installed adobereader-update which also installed adobereader first as part of the package. But now, suddenly, adobereader is all that is needed. adobereader history. adobereader-update history.