@stus said in [Heads-up] New Ransomware Strain Encrypts Cloud Email Real-time VIDEO:

@tim_g We do ! Now 15,000 customers. 🙂

I meant "your" figuratively 🙂

Also Outlook for Android.

@flaxking said in Always Study for the Future SAMIT Video:

When I was deciding when if I was going to do Server 2012 or 2016 certifications, I went with 2012, and I'm glad I did because it was still a year from that point that the Server 2016 exams came out, and I was already certified.

Maybe I should have worded it "study for the farthest future that there is a test for" 🙂

@thwr said in IP security Camera Question.:

@flaxking said in IP security Camera Question.:

@thwr said in IP security Camera Question.:

@dustinb3403 said in IP security Camera Question.:

@thwr digital zoom is what you likely would be using on anything in this price range anyways.

Sure, but a proper lens would just be better.

OK, it gets even better. Just had a look at the price tag: https://shop.omg.de/ubiquiti-networks/unifi/unifi-video/ - will order one on monday 😉

do they work "standalone" for testing purposes? E.g. could you view a live stream or something like that without a DVR?

Yes, the cameras have a web interface where you can view video. Last time I checked they hadn't implemented to ability to record to microSD card yet though.

I can't imagine you can do 'magic zoom' from the camera's web interface. Which is something you will want to test out, because it is pretty awesome. I used it to capture licence plates. When I was setting it up you couldn't even do it directly from the NVR web interface, you had to use the phone App, I don't know if that has been changed.

I've noticed that one of cams even features 3x optical zoom. Would be awesome.

Thanks for your feedback.

Yeah, I would have put the extra money down for that job, but that was before the UVC G3 Pro models were even announced, and the UVC Pro models were discontinued and out of stock everywhere. Just a UVC G3 model wasn't the ideal solution, but it managed to do the job.

@scottalanmiller said in question about setting up a new domain controller:

@dave247 said in question about setting up a new domain controller:

Then, in actuality, the CDW rep did not mess up, as I already have user CALs for Server 2016!!!!

That's why I asked that question 🙂

I'm an idiot.

@dustinb3403 said in VoIP Bandwidth:

@coliver said in VoIP Bandwidth:

@dustinb3403 said in VoIP Bandwidth:

@coliver said in VoIP Bandwidth:

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Welp... 7% packet loss looks like I need to call the phone company.

Phone company...?

(Everyone else sees it, right?)

DSL...

Ha.. "what are packets" is what I expect them to ask

Pretty much. I've got a few contacts in the backend I hope I can tap to bypass the support hell that they contracted out to.

@thwr said in LTO tape library upgrade:

@penguinwrangler said in LTO tape library upgrade:

We are looking at going with LTO-8. The capacity and speed and the ability that it is offline and can be offsite extremely easy were all winners in our books. Offline meaning once the tape is in storage it is not on a network and can get hit by ransomware.

It's just a requirement for us. But yes, your points are valid. 12TB uncompressed per tape isn't that bad. I was looking for an upgrade because 1.5TB for LTO-5 isn't exactly what fits todays capacities.

We can't use cloud backup, hasn't been approved for us yet. So the capacity of the LTO-8 tapes is what we like.

@dustinb3403 said in [help?] powershell - fixed credential for prompforcredential:

@stess said in [help?] powershell - fixed credential for prompforcredential:

@dustinb3403 said in [help?] powershell - fixed credential for prompforcredential:

@stess you can pass credentials as a parameter within powershell.

After reading the article, and tinkering with the script, I found that I am passing the credential in the wrong function. I try to pass it in the testing, but I should have pass it in the connection phase.

Also, I'm surprised this article is so easy to understand.

So I guess I get the "Best answer" 😛

Yes you did :winking_face:

I'm trying to find a way to configure this via Powershell as there is a "Remote" solution of some sort. So much documentation to dig through. . .

The team are great with their constant development of Nextcloud.

@matteo-nunziati said in Just one more failure...:

@dashrender said in Just one more failure...:

where people print out the old stuff, then scan that into a PDF then upload into the chart - don't ask why we don't just print to PDF

welcome! we even print emails and keep paper version stored for months. not legal stuff at all. just customers' orders

wow - sigh...

We have a doc who barely looks at the computer chart, frequently printing out the whole chart reviewing it.. then tossing it. We've discussed it as a company, and the doc was allowed to continue this because they were willing to pay for the paper costs themselves.

The doc is documenting fully in the EHR though.. so at least there is that.

@tim_g said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

@jaredbusch said in Installing Wordpress on CentOS 7 Minimal:

setenforce permissive;

Setup SELinux permissions

semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t '/opt/yourdomain(/.*)?' restorecon -R /opt/yourdomain semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t '/opt/yourdomain/wp-content(/.*)?' restorecon -R /opt/yourdomain/wp-content

I run my servers with SELinux running in Enforcing mode, not permissive.

So if it's in enforcing, WordPress will not run correctly. Example, you can't update, and the Add Plugins page gives a connection error (it's because httpd can't write correctly due to selinux enforcing).

Instead of running SELinux in permissive system-wide, you can keep it in Enforcing mode, and issue the following command:

semanage permissive -a httpd_t

The reason I use that one instead of by directory, is because I don't know how to do that... well I do, but I didn't have time yet to see what all directories need to be written to for updating and plugins pages and such to work correctly. I'll add that here some other time when I get a chance to look in to it more.

I only said that for install message you remove it back to enforcing

Got it
I added to fstab
x-systemd.automount instead of _netdev but still wouldnt work
and enabled this service
systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
and the share is mounted on boot.
In fact, i can now remove x-systemd.automount and replace with _netdev again and it works.
So i just had not enabled this service.

@fateknollogee said in how do I migrate my KVM settings to a new desktop:

Can you "virsh dumpxml vmname" while the vm is running?

Yes.

@fateknollogee said in Fedora 27: Kernel upgrade to 4.14.8-300....no boot:

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 27: Kernel upgrade to 4.14.8-300....no boot:

@fateknollogee said in Fedora 27: Kernel upgrade to 4.14.8-300....no boot:

Server is Lenovo RD640
o/s: Fedora 27
installed kernel: 4.13.9.300

Tried upgrading to 4.14.8-300...the system gets to the grub screen where I can see both available kernels...screen goes black...after waiting a few minutes, I ctrl-alt-del, reboot, choose 4.14..9-300

Anyone have a Lenovo server with upgraded kernel?

I've experienced the boot issue while using 4.14.11, I had to turn off Kernel Page Table Isolation (KPTI).

What flavor of hardware?

On my very old lab server running Hyper-V 2012 R2.
Hardware: PowerEdge 2950
CPU: Intel Xeon E5430
VM: Fedora 27

Even though you can't initiate a remote renewal of the device's IP, it should phone home to the DHCP server if and when its network connection is disconnected for awhile and then reconnected, at which time it would pick up the new lease.

Normally when you disconnect/reconnect a network cable the client will phone back to DHCP since it no longer knows which LAN it is attached to. On WiFi devices, brief disconnection is by design not sufficient to trigger a refresh, but a longer outage should still prompt the client to request DHCP. I would guess that the if the client device is taken home for the evening and then returns in the morning (or even a lunch break, etc) it should pick up the new lease settings.

You could also attempt to force this by briefly disabling the SSID to which the client is currently connected (a couple minutes may do it).

Do you seeing anything in the event viewer that might give you any information?

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud scenario:

@black3dynamite said in Nextcloud scenario:

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.html

Exactly. Nice and easy without imaging anything.

And with the help of salt or ansible to deploy Nextcloud, it’s even better.

@dashrender said in Seeking how to improve:

@manheraz said in Seeking how to improve:

@coliver said in Seeking how to improve:

@manheraz said in Seeking how to improve:

@dashrender said in Seeking how to improve:

@manheraz said in Seeking how to improve

Reconfigure the EMC array as a high availability SMB 3 file server and move the Hyper-V virtual machines to the array (I have to use the EMC array until it's out of suport - 2020)

How are you going to do that? Are you buying another SAN? If not, you don’t have HA.

I have no idea if SMB 3 is worth us My or not... other possibilities ISCSI.

Well, I was going to use this:

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SMB3 allows deduplication and compression (not available if using iSCSI, and the array doesn't have enought storage capacity for our needs)

That's from the "EMC VNXe3200 HIGH AVAILABILITY" white paper.

Burn that thing in a fire. Low end crap Dell bundled with their servers to promote fake-HA.

What about using it as Veeam backup target?

I got the idea from here: https://www.storagecraft.com/blog/making-the-best-of-your-inverted-pyramid-of-doom/

That could be fine, but I'd probably still want to have another backup besides this - i.e. replicated somewhere else...
Also, when you repurpose it.. RAID 6 that guy for max storage followed by reasonable safety.

Yeah. That would be just one backup target.

I was thinking about two backup targets and one replication target in a DR site.

Also, trying to use our old LTO 3 tapes as a last resort backup.

Thanks for the RAID 6 suggestion. Good idea.

@thwr said in Graphical network documentation tools:

@dashrender said in Graphical network documentation tools:

@thwr said in Graphical network documentation tools:

@jaredbusch said in Graphical network documentation tools:

I just want to tour I can click a button or switch type a number of ports and they just put something on the goddamn street I hate Visio and dealing with specifics stencils and all the right things just give me some generic fucking pictures

^ this

Give me a few days, I'll have a meeting with the DC guys soon.

But yes, I'm in the same boat: I would like to click on a VLAN label and see a list of all associated access ports. Or I want to click on a cable and see the patch field number. Can't be this hard. There are some tools out there, like http://demo.racktables.org/ etc. But it looks a little bit like ... eye cancer 😉

Sure, but I don't really consider that the same as Visio. That's like saying that notepad is the same as Word, one is a in general basic visual diagram solution, the other is an imbedded data mine with GUI to the data.

I've never asked for Visio or similar tools but everyone's way to document their cables and devices 🙂

lol I guess you did... but I don't know of many (any off hand) that have an interactive documentation solution like this.

I know Spiceworks has a thing that kinda does this - but it sucks pretty bad and offers little if any ability to edit it to be more accurate.