@Dashrender said in Cannot install Windows updates Help Please!:

This has been the biggest hold for me getting anything newer than 1909 on many devices - that said, I just don't get the option to install anything newer through Windows Updates

I've seen that, too.

@scottalanmiller that is edgeos syntax.

I got it figured out... I fat finger the MAC - working great now 🙂

https://pisignage.com/homepage/index.html

Just found this too.

@Dashrender said in VPN hardware suggestions.:

I'm curious - how is that an HR problem?

Employee didn't complete assigned duties.

@bishnitro said in Defective Laptop - how to get browsers bookmarks:

How to get Edge, chrome and firefox bookmarks from defective laptop? Is it possible to extract it from the SSD w/out booting the Windows 10 since the laptop is defective?

Yes.
Like @DustinB3403 I'd pull the drive out, and put it in an adapter/caddy.
Then can copy the user profile/specific folders & files elsewhere.

Be sure to encourage the user to back up their stuff.

@scottalanmiller said in How can I check what Nextcloud user is active:

That's a lot of updates over the years!

And now upgrading to 20.0.7. Still the original installed CentOS 7 base system.
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@IRJ said in Notification mail in linux?:

@Pete-S said in Notification mail in linux?:

Or is email perhaps not a good way to get notifications when there is a problem?

Maybe email in this manner is old-skool and it would be better to use something else?
Like external log server, system monitoring (Zabbix) perhaps?

Yeah I would use SIEM. Then you'd create and manage your alerts from there. You could send to email, slack, etc.

You can use postfix for alerting as JB mentioned. I use postfix on the my personal servers because I don't manage enough to justify a SIEM.

I thought that SIEM was only used for security monitoring. What SIEMs for example are we talking about for this type of application?

@openit said in Suggest a simple free / open source Network Monitoring software.:

For switch, the following is the configuration, I mean it is on SNMP.
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Following is info that I can see for it:
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Is it possible to pull info every port of switch, just like Spiceworks Networ Monitor used to do? If yes, what template I would need to use or any config? Most switches we have are Cisco SG300.
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Yes, Cisco and general SNMP templates can be applied to the host and it will start to pull in information if you configured SNMP correctly.

https://share.zabbix.com/network_devices/cisco

@Pete-S said in Obtaining hardware from terminated remote employee:

@stacksofplates said in Obtaining hardware from terminated remote employee:

@Pete-S said in Obtaining hardware from terminated remote employee:

@StorageNinja said in Obtaining hardware from terminated remote employee:

@JaredBusch said in Obtaining hardware from terminated remote employee:

Hardware is not worth the fucking time to get back.

If the company thinks wasting man hours on that is a good idea the company is insane

While I largely agree, our R&D laptops are ~2-3K a pop. (fully max spec' MPB or XPS with onsite repair agreements).

I did hear we have started on the Mac's using DEP, so the device will auto-enroll in MDM even if the device is wiped.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204142

Makes no sense developing on a laptop IMHO - unless you're talking about another kind of R&D in another field.

On our team we remote into development servers and all development and testing is run there. Which means the computer you're actually sitting in front of just needs to be able to run a browser, rdp, ssh etc. So any machine suitable for general office work would get the job done. So no 2-3K laptops needed for development, even if that is not the primary reason. I kind of assumed everyone worked that way but haven't actually given it much thought until now.

I haven't really seen anyone do this other than CAD work. Everywhere I've been it's local development, possibly using Eclipse Che or Coder or something for a remote IDE but still local.

VSCode and JetBrains tools allow you to include your development environment in a container. So when you open the project it will open inside of a container with all of the dependencies included. That's the best workflow ive seen so far.

I believe you and find it very interesting. Wov. If that's how most people work, I'm just blown away. I assumed everyone was remote and had full on development and test environments at their disposal.

They usually do have full dev/test environments but it's all containerized. So it's trivial to run that locally. Then when you are satisfied with local results push to your branch and have it auto build/deploy against the actual dev/test environments with something like Flux/Argo. This is still remote, GitOps is all about remote workflows.

@Skyetel said in Phone Outages for February 19, 2021:

Skyetel’s President is addressing this personally, and all options are on the table. He’s, uh, pretty upset.

Hahhhaahahahahhah

Hey guys sorry for late update....
I still didn't fix my issue....like I say before I am not a PRO so I really need a step by step help if someone has time.

The main issue is that the two site can't ping each other but I can from the laptop and access to both network LAN clients.

I tried to create a new GATEWAY and select the Zerotier interface + made a static rule but is not working.

@Obsolesce said in Active Directory - User Attribute RFID/HID Badge:

@DustinB3403 said in Active Directory - User Attribute RFID/HID Badge:

@Dashrender I'm a 3rd party to the end customer here. Acting as the middle man as the customer's IT department wanted to engage outside support to try and vet different products.

I candidly told the customer that while this product will work, it won't work with all of the features they want without some substantial changes to their infrastructure and that the support (at least from this vendor) is pretty awful.

The simple approach here is to not integrate RFID/HID's to the system and simply use the AD Integration with the built-in QR codes that each member is assigned.

Just because something may be supported, doesn't imply that it is support.

Except in this case the vendor very clearly has stated they support you adding custom attributes within AD.

As it turns out, it is called

Text with Layout

It uses txtlyt32.cnv which is in the (x86)\common file\Microsoft shared\Textcnv

It is a standard MS-DOS text file with layout, or fixed columns.

@Dashrender said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

@scottalanmiller said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

@Pete-S said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

@Dashrender said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

@DustinB3403 said in Access 2003 in a 2021 World???:

And yes I know that best is relative to ones needs.

Access was the "best" at one point I'm sure.

I'm willing to bet that's not true - not a lot.. maybe $100... lol pretty sure Access was never the best for anything.. other solutions while possibly more difficult could still likely be shown to be much better solutions.

It wasn't Access itself that was the thing. It was the JET database engine that Access used under the hood that made it popular.

Back in the 90's if you wanted a simple database in your application and you used something like Visual Basic 3.0 then the JET engine was the first option to consider because Microsoft bundled it with VB and it was free. That's how it gained a foothold.

The JET engine was very very far from the best or even good. It was common to corrupt the database and run tools to "repair" it. But it was available without any effort - today we know that is perhaps the most important "feature"...

If you wanted the best you'd connect your application to an Oracle db.

MS Access itself was never a serious tool that developers used for business applications. It's very limited so VB was the default choice in the MS ecosystem for these kinds of applications.

Once Access could use SQL Server, it became worlds better. But the whole "GUI application interface" made it so expensive and limiting that it could never really be a great tool, even when it was a good enough tool.

I've got customers who have built way too much on it and even though they are tiny and use it about as well as anyone could, it's really clear that if they put a little effort into a PHP developer that they could replace everything in a week with something vastly better.

A week? you mean 40 hours at $250/hr (dev house)?

40 hours, a PHP dev sure isn't $250/hr. That's an ERP cost per hour. Contract a developer for a week and you can definitely find someone who will work at much more like $85/hr if you shop around and find someone available.

I moved a test AP to 4.3.28.11361 yesterday. No issues experienced. I moved some additional ones this AM, and still no issue with DHCP like with the 4.3.24.x version

@dafyre said in Posh-SSH:

For the remote system, is it always creating new files? If so, you could set your script to delete files older than so many days and then run the SFTP?

Of course, the copy of the content is generated with robocopy incrementally, the whole environment is a Windows, except the SFTP which is a Linux, so in theory I could not make incremental copies to the sftp 😞