This is a really cool course, unfortunately I can't share too much about it or it would ruin the integrity of the course for anyone who is striving for this certification.

Basically, you get a few attacker machines (Windows and of course Kali) that are used to perform the attacks. The network is segmented and secure like a business network would be. There is a firewall, IDS, A/V, and other challenges that are meant to trip you up.

@sn said in Virtual Data Room recommendations:

@scottalanmiller Technically "virtual data room" is similar to file server and primarily accessed over a browser session. In addition to the standard file server features, it may also include features like-

Bulk watermarking of documents "View only" mode for documents Real time activity logs Remote document shredding Fenced view to protect documents from someone taking a photo of the monitor with document open Q & A section and live discussions etc.

From a usage perspective, our "virtual data room" is shared between a bunch of firms (like insurers, lawyers, auditors, investors, engineering and construction companies etc) with different access levels who are working towards the completion of a specific project which may take 2-5 years to complete (please note, we are into wind/solar farm development). So I surely do not want all these guys on my file server doing crazy things like creating users and modifying originals.

At the moment, I am thinking of evaluating https://www.idealsvdr.com/virtual-data-room-features/ to see if they are worth switching from my current provider.

Interesting. Seems like a mistake in terms. Why does being available over "web" make it "virtual". Seems like a marketing term. I don't see anyone but Citrix using it, and Citrix has a trend of totally making up and misusing terms. Citrix' use of "virtual" is the industry standard for "wrong". I have a feeling that this isn't a legitimate term. Looking at the wikipedia entry for it, it looks very suspect. And the definition doesn't feel right - a specific access technology for something so general wouldn't be appropriate. And the lack of other products or vendors using the term for something so common and normal is suspicious. For example, Sharepoint and Alfresco have been doing this for forever, but never use the term.

The Synology box just arrived and now on my table and RAID 7 is a bit too little too late.

@JaredBusch What about the cookieDomain portion?

@Dashrender said in What is the Difference Between a Hypervisor and an Operating System:

@scottalanmiller said in What is the Difference Between a Hypervisor and an Operating System:

@DustinB3403 said in What is the Difference Between a Hypervisor and an Operating System:

@black3dynamite said in What is the Difference Between a Hypervisor and an Operating System:

What would you call Xbox One system, a hypervisor or OS?
http://wccftech.com/xbox-one-architecture-explained-runs-windows-8-virtually-indistinguishable/

If the article is accurate it would have to be a hypervisor. With a dom0 running an anorexic windows 8.

Sounds like they use the term RTOS as a code for hypervisor. They say it is an RTOS but then point out that it is not an OS (in that it doesn't run apps) and that it is a hypervisor (in that it hosts Windows 8.) So either their name is wrong, or their description is.

Ok, I didnt read the article, I commented based on things i heard from Paul Thurrott.

So I'll admit my understanding might have been wrong.

As a side note, Xbox one has been upgraded to Windows 10 now....

It's weird that the article claims it's a partition not a VM....

Partition and VM are not competing concepts. Lots of VMs are partitions. One thing (VM vs physical) is about how it runs. Partition vs. something else is just where it is stored. Nothing in saying it is a partition suggests that it is not a VM.

Now we only have the article to go on, but the article seems pretty clear that it is a VM. But what it really is, no idea.

For those looking through the logs, this is the key entry to notice:

error: Error creating index Index with name: _key_1_value_-1 already exists with different options

@BRRABill said in How to Require TLS for Outbound SMTP Connections with MDaemon:

I think what he meant was encrypted from the e-mail client (Outlook, Webmail) to the MD server.

That's confusing because it isn't email at that point but is just an internal application API. If it is Outlook, for example, it talks directly with Exchange as a client manipulating stuff on Exchange. If it is OWA, it's Exchange that you are looking at directly (the "email" is still on Exchange.)

@Danp said in Alternatives to Untangle:

What to do with the Dell SC440 server that is currently being used? Scrap it?

Definitely scrap it.

By default, traffic will pass between VLANs 1 & 2, unless you go into the firewall & add rules to deny traffic

@scottalanmiller said in Questions That the Amazon Alex Cannot Answer:

@JaredBusch said in Questions that the Amazon Echo can't answer.:

Retitle to "Alexa" as it is not restricted to the Echo.

Done, and tagged.

Spelled wrong.

@JaredBusch there is another project that took the PocketMine code and tried to run with it that I am looking at. Haven't had much time to dig into it today yet, though.

It was amazing that Scott found it so fast. I was on the Windows side of things. Inside Windows they were using the iSCSI initiator to connect to the FreeNAS. All the sudden Windows would just log a ton of iSCSI events and go down.

I looked up the events and most people resolved them by putting the iSCSI traffic on a separate NIC. This happened two days in a row at about the same time each day. I was looking at snapshot, backup, etc times when Scott found it in the FreeNAS logs.

@stess said in Do you remove native printers/fax when you deploy machines? Win7/Win10:

I just had a user who keep complaining that their print job won't print. They thought the printer is broken, or jammed... so they open the door (the wrong way) and broke the door hinge. It is holding with duct tape now.

It's probably a better idea to apply the duct tape to the user...

For me: Depends on the user. Skilled users keep them, others get an environment as simple as possible.

@Danp said in DirectvNow:

@brianlittlejohn Sling is supposed to be beta testing their cloud DVR product starting this month on Roku devices. From what I read, they will eventually expand it to include other devices.

Huh... if it's anything like Playstation Vue on Roku vs PS Vue on Amazon Fire TV, don't expect much.

@Dashrender said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@scottalanmiller said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@dafyre said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@Dashrender said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@JaredBusch said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@Dashrender said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@JaredBusch said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@Dashrender said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@JaredBusch said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@black3dynamite said in Splitting Array for Hypervisor on Hyper-V:

@JaredBusch
Configuring one big array and creating a partition for Hyper-V and another for the VMs is not common? Or keep the hypervisor and the VMs on one partition?

It is not common, because the most common RAID adapters out there do not have the functionality to create partitions on the RAID array. We had a thread on this subject not too long ago in fact. If someone could find it and link it that would be great.

It is definitely a nice way to handle it if you can have the array split logically prior to installing the hypervisor.

You can still split the array up at the hypervisor install level.

Would there be any benefit to a split at the adapter level versus inside the array as partitions?

6/halfdozen.

At the controller level, the readability of the data side is not dependant on the hypervisor side being bootable. You simply boot to a USB media or something and read you data. t is a failure mitigation concept to me.

Not something that is going to make day to day any different

Time out - what?

If I create a single array as most RAID controllers only allow - and present that to my installation of Hyper-V, Hyper-V (assuming it works like install Windows Server - and I have to assume this because I've only ever installed Hyper-V twice, and most recently 2 years ago) then Hyper-V will allow you to create two partitions before installation begins. Assuming you install Hyper-V install one of them and your VMs into the other - what prevents you from booting to your aforementioned bootable media and gaining access to the VMs?

Heck, even if you just left it as a single large partition, why wouldn't booting to your bootable media still grant you access to the data?

As i said, 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other... Most of the time what you said is true. but losing the system that created the logical partitioning can always have a chance to lose everything.

That is still true for doing it at the RAID controller. just the point is moved.

Again - WHAT!?!?! I don't think I've ever seen an OS issue cause a partition failure before.

This used to be a big issue in my family too. No idea why it happened, but it did, all the way up until the XP days... then it tapered off.

MS started working on storage stability a bit. It was pretty horrific for a long time.

Offline @dafyre mentioned it was in the DOS days, pre WIn9X mainly - but almost completely gone with XP.

that's probably why I didn't see it happen. I did start at a place with lots of Win3.11, but I guess we were lucky this just didn't happen to us.

And outside of my family, that never seemed to be a common occurrence with most other folks either.

@Francesco-Provino said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

@BRRABill said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

@dafyre said in SMB - Greenfield scenario - Full cloud sync and backup:

@BRRABill His point still remains in that you are covered if a rock falls on the building, but not if a fire burns down the entire city.

Is it often that a fire burns down an entire city?

I mean what are the risk chances of
a) a loss of the NAS (theft, building fire, building flood)
b) a whoel city burning down

The problem is they WILL forget to bring usb home, or throw the drive and ignore errors… really, what's wrong with a cloud backup in this scenario? Apart from the first upload, the changed data ratio will be very low, something like <100Mb/day.

If you're looking at a low daily change rage, then I'd definitely go with NextCloud + Backblaze.

Why does google put games on their site every now and again?

@DustinB3403 said in Firmware Update Warning on SuperMicro from FreeNAS:

@scottalanmiller said in Firmware Update Warning on SuperMicro from FreeNAS:

@DustinB3403 said in Firmware Update Warning on SuperMicro from FreeNAS:

Why are you using FreeNAS? Every conversation ever with someone asking should I use FreeNAS or something else for my storage device, @scottalanmiller has always had the same answer. Use CentOS, or purchase a Synology.

So where did this come up that you are on a FreeNAS box?

Because we support customers. That's how customers work.

Don't get offended, I was just asking.

Don't feel bad. @scottalanmiller hasn't had his coffee yet this morning.

@scottalanmiller

I didn't even watch that video yet, but just wanted to make a statement about that man's mustache. That alone might persuade me to use that product.