@wrx7m said in Joining/Binding Macs to AD Domain - Should I Bother?:

These are the graphic designers and are Mac fanatics. I would have ditched them long ago if I could have.

Yeah, who needs graphics designers anyway.

Oh, did you mean the Macs?

It is something I looked at, but with no desire to try and enter an already overcrowded market, I passed on it.

Once upon a time, I know there was an A2Billing module of some kind for the FreePBX GUI for people to get info from their local installs with.

@JaredBusch said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@scottalanmiller said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@Dashrender said in Files in a LANLESS system:

@scottalanmiller let's assume that we get direct application access from Word/Writer into SP or NC, how do you send a link to someone else so they know they have access? How do you register that 'link' in some way so that the correct application launches when trying to open the link?

How do you do it today? Why would it need to change at all?

Paying particular attention to Gene's wording, there would be no more files, only data in a DB. In that case, to send the information via email would mean extracting that data into some kind of usable format then emailing it.

So the contents of the file are simply sent as a file.... that's all a file normally is, a database holding text directly on it with a label on it with the filename. So.... literally nothing changes here under the hood. There is no more or less extraction than before.

You were weren't talking about getting rid of docx files and xlsx files, etc?

Yup, and still am. No files, but that doesn't mean that you can't have a file "view".

But OneDrive, etc still store those things as objects, I don't think you can edit the 'Word.doc' file directly inside the DB, you need to send that object of data to Word to edit it.

As objects, not as files. I don't need to pull the files from OneDrive to edit them. I can talk to the database directly with MS Office 2013 or later, even the online version.

Yeah Office is a bad example because of the massive integration.

Or a good example because it shows how easily it can be done and how well people can't even tell.

LOL - yeah, but you are limited to only MS based files, All other files are just stored as objects in the DB.

Are they? I'm not sure of that. But that's always going to be the case. File systems are for ad hoc, unplanned files. The real question should be... why do such files exist in your environment? When do you actually want ad hoc file types that you didn't expect?

Actually Sharepoint does not natively interface .doc files either. It only uses the new format .docx files in the manner you are saying.

Don't I know it.. I was playing with SharePoint and damn if I didn't have all kinds of problems with DOC files.

@travisdh1 said in Got a Pi:

@JaredBusch said in Got a Pi:

So where does everyone buy their Pi from?

I'm a fan of Adafruit, Element 14, and Jamco Electronics, Mouser, and Digikey myself.

I believe the Pi is sold but adafruit through Amazon. Adafruit is so slow, because they get so many orders, but through amazon they offer prime shipping.

We have this exact setup at my office, works awesome. If the cameras are indoors, remove the plastic domes for best picture.

@coliver said in Rule 41 - allows government to hack any computer with a warrant:

Ugh... the Department of Justice is using the "Think of the children" defense for this.

Because it makes stupid people even more stupid.

@Jason said in Something Happen at BackBlaze?:

@scottalanmiller said in Something Happen at BackBlaze?:

@Jason said in Something Happen at BackBlaze?:

@scottalanmiller said in Something Happen at BackBlaze?:

@Jason said in Something Happen at BackBlaze?:

@Nic said in Something Happen at BackBlaze?:

Aaron just decided to reduce his community profiles and remove his old stuff. He was never an official media rep for them, he just works as one of their sysadmins so I ping him when I see stuff that is relevant. Nothing awry at BackBlaze itself.

Well he's done it several times before so seems like normal for him.

He has? I've never seen him do anything like this ever. Or do you mean when he stopped working at SW? That's different, he changed jobs.

He's went through several different accounts on here as well as spiceworks before.

He did? Are you sure? I'm not aware of that ever happening.

Are you perhaps confusing him with @aaronstuder ?

Oh this isn't Aaron Studer?

No 🙂 This is Aaron that a lot of us know from his time in Spiceworks as a support engineer.

@stacksofplates said in Linux run from a USB Stick - Alternative to Puppy Linux:

Kali is also designed to run from a USB.

I recommend tails if you actually want to use the OS rather than just hacking things.

@wrx7m said in Pritunl:

I asked about this about 7 months ago on another thread (https://mangolassi.it/topic/8215/pertino-is-anyone-successfully-using-any-version-above-510-with-dns-ad-connect/146) to which SAM replied, it just looked like hosted OpenVPN to him. LOL

LOL, well that does appear to be what it is 🙂

A little monitoring goes a long way 🙂

@donaldlandru said in FreePBX Asterisk Music on Hold Streaming Sources:

Cleaning up my old post and marking it solved. After taking options and cost to the business we ended up staying with the bundled music.

Thanks for circling back 🙂

@Dashrender I am still on-prem but plan on moving to O365 at the beginning of next year (If all things line up). I am using Barracuda's cloud layer, which takes the brunt of it and then have a local appliance that filters inbound and outbound.

@wrx7m said in DC history/audit log:

This is what dash is referring to:

https://www.netwrix.com/auditor.html

Exactly!

@thwr said in 1 Graylog server, 2 XS hosts, 4 Million messages/week:

Don't have a number at hand, but my pfSense is pretty chatty about rules being hit 😉 I'm using Graylog2 too.

Can't help with your spamming XS hosts but can't you reduce the log level or select which events are sent? rsyslog can be configured to just sent specific facilities and/or loglevels.

Sadly XS just does logging a little differently.

Similar to iFunbox, PhoneRescue may work...

https://www.imobie.com/support/how-to-recover-deleted-history-on-ipad.htm

DECT has way better range than BT and from the few times I looked at BT headsets, the average user reviews are quite a bit lower than some (definitely not all) of the DECT units.

@wrx7m said in WSUS 2012 (r2) support for Windows 10:

I see mention of SCCM in the article. Does this only apply to SCCM-related installs of WSUS?

No, this whole problem is related to WSUS only. I'm guessing the author mentioned SCCM because that's how he became aware of the problem.

@aaron said in You Cannot Virtualize That:

@scottalanmiller said in You Cannot Virtualize That:

@aaron said in You Cannot Virtualize That:

said in You Cannot Virtualize That:

We are long past the point where running systems non-virtualized is considered acceptable

/me looks around at servers

I think it's ok to not virtualize 🙂

Doesn't BB cluster their entire farm? I thought virtualization was an effective necessity at that scale. You manage the servers without them being clustered in any way? I thought that the pods were nodes in a single farm

Oh they're clustered. I was thinking of a specific pod not being virtualized by itself. As in they aren't running a hypervisor. And we do have virtualized stuff around too. 😛

That cluster is really the virtualization, the nodes are below that level. We had another thread discussing this previously. Clusters are not always virtualized at the node level because the node is like the CPU, not a server and the entire cluster is really the computer and the cluster manager is the real hypervisor. Workloads run on the cluster, not on the nodes. Each node remains replacable as just part of the overall "Computer" which is, virtualized.