@LAH3385 said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

@scottalanmiller said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

@FATeknollogee said in Windows Desktop PC's: preferred suppliers?:

Anyone know of a Softmart equivalent on the West Coast? I'd like to eliminate the 1 week shipping time from the East Coast.

They don't ship from Philly. Their warehouses are all over the country. I used to do local pickup in Dallas all of the time. No delay to the west coast.

Do they charge for pickup? And where in DFW are they located at? Just curious

They don't charge us at least. And in Carrollton where the tracks cross Josie just north of Trinity Station.

What do the logs say about the system going down? I'm guessing that it is going down for whatever reason there is then a RAID issue.

@s.hackleman said in Best Practices:

Could I make a DNS alias called HistoryServer Then point it to both History1? Then point all apps to HistoryServer. When ever an upgrade comes due, I can just update the DNS alias in one place?

Yes, but if you can do that, you could just rename, too. This is the better way to go, and ideally should be done from the start.

@scottalanmiller said in ownCloud 8.2.4 to 9.0.2 upgrade problem:

have you tested yet?

I have more systems that I can upgrade, but I have not done so yet.

I'm sure NSC Global would support it

It's been easily a decade since I worked with that, I'm afraid.

@scottalanmiller said in Server 2016 Eval - Maps Services:

@tonyshowoff said in Server 2016 Eval - Maps Services:

Did they get rid of Explorer and replace it with an over the top, tablet-ready file browser which hides most of the files and randomly selects which are most important? If not, can I patent this before Microsoft uses it?

Too late.

Thank god I use FreeBSD for the most part; I've had the same Openbox (before that Blackbox) config for 16 years, bashrc / bas_profile too.. even longer actually. I've long dreamed of some sort of Unix with native NT API implemented. I contributed some to ReactOS until those people went completely insane, years ago, and started being big babies about decompiling and also using leaked source code. I care more about what I want than goofy software concepts of "right and wrong", tbh.

@scottalanmiller said in It's a turrible day. Just turrible!:

@DustinB3403 said in It's a turrible day. Just turrible!:

Yeah it's not the greatest tool out there, but the integration with Outlook is pretty awesome. Plus if you have businesses you deal with that use it you can incorporation the SfB systems so you can message across domains.

We never found anyone that would do that and the functionality was so poor that we gave up on it.

Plus that can be a liability to the business. iMs aren't logged at most company's, emails usually are.

@scottalanmiller said in SMB NAS:

@BBigford said in SMB NAS:

@scottalanmiller said in SMB NAS:

@BBigford said in SMB NAS:

@scottalanmiller said in SMB NAS:

@BBigford said in SMB NAS:

@scottalanmiller said in SMB NAS:

Thunderbolt is DAS technology. So you can't use it on a device being used as a NAS. The two cannot coexist for the same "shares."

Right, I've been debating between the two. Get a Synology NAS, or a LaCie 2big RAID with Thunderbolt. Easier to manage, but the internals of the LaCie have far less resources than the Synology from what I can see. Going all over different sites and LaCie's site, I can't find any specifics on the CPU, RAM, etc though. Weird...

Again... don't even look at consumer gear. It will all end in tears.

With the budget I'm working with, and how few users are going to be on it, I can't afford something in the business class with a better SLA.

Something like this with a couple 4TB WD Red Pros would suffice...

http://www.amazon.com/Synology-Station-Diskless-Attached-DS716/dp/B016UTXLYQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462478801&sr=8-1&keywords=synology+ds716+plus

Synology is not consumer. Lacie is.

Your short list should be Synology (and ioSafe by extension) and ReadyNAS. That's pretty much it. Buffalo, Drobo... they have a place but pretty niche. For your needs, Synology and ReadyNAS, that's it.

Which of the three manufacturers do you typically always recommend? Whenever I see reviews between Synology and ReadyNAS it always seems like a push... like it comes down to preference if the prices are the same. Nothing definitive from either side like "their support is terrible, the turn around on parts is fantastic whereas the other is not, the software on this one is garbage/buggy/etc."

ioSafe is unique. If you want what they offer, use them. Plain and simple. No one else does fire and water proof NAS devices. And ioSafe is quite active here, which is a huge bonus. And I have one myself 🙂

Synology vs ReadyNAS is to me basically HPE vs. Dell. They are basically the same quality and same product. Personal preference is more important than the differences between the two products. Both are excellent. Don't worry about which one you choose. I refuse to play favourites, they are both totally good choices. You can't get religious about these things. Rule out the companies that don't have good support or products or cost too much, figure out where the remainder fit on the field.

Synology and ReadyNAS take the big "cake" bit of the SMB storage field. Drobo handles most of the icing. Buffalo trails behind but offers one or two niche solutions because they offer a Windows based product.

Fair enough. If I was going to use it as central storage for accessible data, I might consider using the ReadyNAS since it has ReadyCloud. An overview of the data being widely available is pretty cool. But we have SharePoint and it won't be used for central every day data... though the ReadyNAS is cheaper than the Synology with roughly the same specs (about $200 for diskless), which would make someone wonder they would buy the Synology over the ReadyNAS. hmm...

Very nice.

@IRJ said in NOTICE: Changes pending for Pertino Web Console:

Sounds like the free option may be going away.

It's gone off their website and has been gone for ages. Along with most of the original team.

Grandfathered users might still have it.

@scottalanmiller Yeah I noticed that after I posted, just didnt care to update.

@DustinB3403 said in A Public Post Mortem of An Outage:

Wow, that is a rather long time.

Yup, parts were very hard to get and getting the server physically moved before diagnostics could begin ate huge amounts of time up. Cost of speeding things up would have been huge - replacing gear instead of repairing it. But since the vendor could not diagnose the issue with the hardware (their error messages were ones that they did not have documented) it complicated things greatly.

@Jason said in FreePBX - Paging Pro - Scheduler:

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX - Paging Pro - Scheduler:

@aaronstuder said in FreePBX - Paging Pro - Scheduler:

I have tested, and if I dial 91 it does play a single buzz

Irregardless of all other issues, why in the hell would you pick 91 for the paging code?

Do you like to incur 911 fines for accidental calls?

Not to mention 9 is usually for breaking out to the PSTN and 1 is the US country code

I very specifically force my users to simply 10 digit dial on any new phone systems.

Makes the backend routing easier.

if NXXNXXXXXX then prepend a 1 and send it out the trunk.

I also got rid of the concept of hitting 8 or 9 for an outside line.

@StrongBad said in Need to Extract PostgreSQL Schema for Clean Database:

This is what I get...

postgres@~ 2$ pg_dump -p 5023 -n portaltest pg_dump: specified schema "portaltest" does not exist

portal_2___error_by_half_dude-d3h8bys.jpg

@BBigford said in Installing FreeNAS 9.3 on Scale HC3:

When you say "in a business capacity"... Do you mean any business or just certain sizes? What is the reasoning? I know you think the FreeNAS community can be very brash/vile at times based on some of your earlier posts to people asking about FN.

http://www.smbitjournal.com/2015/07/the-jurassic-park-effect/

Basically you are getting a highly stateful system where support is critical but in a crippled manner compared to just using FreeBSD. You are getting something easy to set up but difficult to support. If anything goes wrong you are in very tough shape. And updates come a bit behind. So you have a number of small issues that all add up to a not very business friendly product.

I was playing a little bit with LOGG.LY today and I think I fried my brain.

I'm trying to get my logs off my XS USB boot device see it doesn't get its brain fried.

I'll be watching this ELK discussion to see how everyone does.