@i3 said in Journaling in Office 365:

Does anyone have any experience with using journal rules in Office 365? My specific question is can I have two different journal rules (destinations) based on the email address of a user or is it tied to the mailbox.

For example, I have 4 users each with [email protected] and an alias of [email protected]. Could I have two separate journal rules for domain.com going to one destination and domain2.com going to another destination? In other words, having two separate journal rules based on the email domain.

Yes, you can do so. Something similar as this:
https://vaultastic.mithi.com/docs/configure-your-email-server/office-365/configure-journal-rule-for-selected-users

@kelly Thank you Kelly

Mixed results.

Web based connections to the provisioning server work and the web based address books now work.

But TLS for the SIP connection is not working right.

But I ran out of testing time..
More to come.

@scottalanmiller 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:

@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.

Yeah I see what your saying. Actually the parts in my example were the new Intel processors. I selected a Xeon Gold and he suggested I go with Silver as they also perform well and just because they are "silver" doesn't mean they are a less better version of the Gold. And in actuality, the reason I chose Gold was because I was trying to get more Ghz but I understand that's not all there is to a CPU. It was my first pass at a build.

@fateknollogee said in Average Rate for Emergency Service:

@jaredbusch said in Average Rate for Emergency Service:

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@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.

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.

@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.

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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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

@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?

@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:

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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

@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.

:question_mark: Does your router have IPv6 enabled?

:question_mark: 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!

@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.

@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.

I use Veracrypt.

It's compatible with TrueCrypt but It uses his own encryption mode by default.

@momurda Docker I think. There's some github scripts that use that port. Pretty specific for a guess like that though.

@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

@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.

@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.

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.