We use DNS health checks for this, Route53 and CLoudFlare have this but it comes at a n additional cost.

@gjacobse said in Annoying issue: iOS and chrome:

Today's refresh has me not being signed into the forum. .. (eyeroll)

I suspect there's a link between not closing the tab, and exiting the browser.
Then when loading the browser and the tab, problems.

@siringo said in hot potato workers:

I was thinking about this last night. Is there anything you could do with QR codes or similar. Issue a card per device. They swipe/flash the card to log on and the same to log off.

you know of a windows solution that does that? I don't, though I've never looked for one either.

@irj said in ADUC Set Password Expiry:

@gjacobse said in ADUC Set Password Expiry:

@irj said in ADUC Set Password Expiry:

You gotta teach good culture

Good Luck

Sometimes people have to be inconvenienced for security

Don't disagree - but can't stop doing business either.

Managing all these exceptions is an operational nightmare that will create a load of technical debt.

No lie - and no argument there. But resetting the expiry date/time doesn't seem all that different than resetting any password. few clicks and poof.

I can understand your point, but some responsibility for security must fall on the user. Management of course has to buy in on this and/or give full control of IT policies to a CISO/IT manager/generalist (depending on size of business).

Again - no disagreement. Barring this - being able to set a date for the password to expire that isn't to far out of policy seems better and more ideal than some of the options.

@francesco-provino said in Air Gap Backups:

I have done it with the S3 Vault Lock feature, you can use it in conjunction with Storage Gateway (effectively emulating tapes), or using objects directly.

Once put in compliance mode, there is no way to delete the objects before the compliance period ends. It's also very cheap.

I'm trailing this now. Well to S3 storage, if it works I'll enable the Lock bit

@jasgot Thanks for the help buddy. What you mention sounds exactly like what is happening.

I think this problem may be resolved then, thanks for your help.

Just a heads up on this. If you select their Ampere Arm processor you can have 4CPU with 24gb ram for free as well. VM has boot of 50GB but you can addon block storage for free up to 200GB I believe.

Ampere A1 Compute instances (Arm processor): All tenancies get the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape, which has an Arm processor. For Always Free tenancies, this is equivalent to 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of memory

Yep works well, I'm part of their Discord channel and speak to the developers regularly. They a good bunch and quite supportive. I have donated a couple of times to the project.

An Idea if anyone wants to try for free, I have just set this up as a test on oracle cloud for free using their free arm processors with 4CPU and 24GB ram.

Good old break everything windows updates.

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This is all you have within the SonicWall control, on or off. I saw this yesterday and assumed I was missing something critical. The most basic APs in the world include the "Identify AP" functionality.

Apparently, SonicWall APs are more basic than basic as they don't include this functionality at all.

On or off is all you get.

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@jasgot said in Forcing the Feature Update in Windows 10 in the Background:

FUWindows.ps1

Best command name ever. Yes, I know what it actually means, doesn't make the alternative any less funny 😆

@scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:

@obsolesce said in Why Do People Still Text:

@dashrender said in Why Do People Still Text:

they have a flip phone, so SMS isn't an option, but those people are so few that it doesn't affect the masses.

Huh? Every flip phone and service I've had in the 90s and early 2000s had SMS texting.

That was definitely not my experience. I've had cell service continuously since 1992 and did not get access to texting until more like 2002 and never sent or received a text until I would guess after 2006. But I had email on my phone before that and talked with loads of people because it was common in business then, because of Blackberry devices, to have email on the phones. ANd because texting was costly and rarely available, they had Blackberry messenger instead of texting on the devices. We didn't use it, but it was there.

Not my own experience. Texting was big for me and my circle back then, regardless of your experience. Besides the point though... Being a flip phone had nothing to do with SMS.

I think the answer is, in the rare circumstance that SIP / T.38 is working perfectly, you would not change. We have big customers doing tons of faxing and they desperately need this solution because they can't get SIP / T.38 to an acceptable failure rate.

If you have an ideal setup - modern fax machine, fiber internet, correctly configured ATA (which is, by far, the biggest problem we've had - people just won't read the guides thoroughly), your expected failure rate is about 8% on a T.38 ATA. For small offices who send/receive a fax once in a couple of months, this is a fine solution.

HTTPS ATAs only fail when the party on the other end of the fax fails; which makes them at least as reliable as traditional POTS lines. They are probably more reliable because we will retry the fax 9 times before failing it. So if you need near 100% reliability, you need to use the HTTPS ATAs.

The reason we are charging monthly for the ATAs is because that is how we are charged for them. We have to buy software for these things to work, and its expensive. Most of our competitors who offer HTTPS ATAs charge north of $15/mo.

@irj There was a spam post here this morning.

@dashrender said in Windows 11 does not let you show all taskbar icons:

@jaredbusch Ya gotta wonder if there is a reg key for that?

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Create a new 32bit Dword value: "EnableAutoTray"
Set to: 0

0 = Show all
1 = Hide all

To activate:
Log out and back on

OR

Reboot

OR

Use Task manager to kill and restart Explorer

@voip_n00b said in [SOLVED] Group Policy Cental Store Not Updating:

Typo in the folder name 🙄

LOL - will getcha every time 😉

@scottalanmiller said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@jaredbusch said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@krzykat said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@scottalanmiller said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@stuartjordan said in Edgerouter X - Small Office:

@scottalanmiller Thanks for the suggestion Scott.

No problem.

The "4" is a really nice unit. Still small, but really powerful.

This really is your only choice right now if buying from UI direct. It's the only router they have available in stock. Is there a link to "Jared's test" ?

Posted somewhere on this forum.

The ERL gets ~60mbps with QoS enabled. I honestly cannot recall what the ER-X did. I thought it was in the 150mbps range, but my memory is not the best thing in the world.

It IS a little faster than the ERL, faster CPU. Less RAM, though, so some features can cause it to struggle.

QoS and other non-offloaded things are all CPU constrained. Unless you load up extra processes on anything in the ER line, you will not typically run into any kind of memory constraint.

@dbeato is the man of the hour today. He had the idea to remove and re create the Exchange Powershell directory and the Exchange Management Shell capabilities were restored.

Kudos to @dbeato !