@DustinB3403 said in Kari's Law and Special SMB Onus on IT Staff:

@scottalanmiller You just said that Enterprise customers can be forced to update their information, but smaller orgs get a pass.

I must be misreading what you've typed.

Yes, the CUSTOMERS get a pass, IT that supports small customers has to provide the information that they don't have control over. Enterprise customers have to provide the information from the company.

SMB customers get to not tell anyone when changes are made and blame someone with no power or way to get that information for certain.

@JaredBusch said in Kari's Law and other telecom changes:

@scottalanmiller said in Kari's Law and other telecom changes:

law ....... simply .............. written

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA

LOL - yeah, pretty much this.

At least the notification requirements are pretty simple and straightforward. For almost everyone, just email out a notification.

@DustinB3403 said in Kari's Law and Hotdesking:

@scottalanmiller I would say, you should disable it if someone can't pick up any phone and call 911.

It IS disabled in that situation. So removes it from law coverage.

@black3dynamite true, you just have to make sure everyone restarts their FF!

@gjacobse said in Large MBOX file:

@DustinB3403 said in Large MBOX file:

@gjacobse said in Large MBOX file:

Thunderbird wants you to create the mailbox settings first.

This is part of a state investigation, so, no gmail account is available. This needs to be a free standing solution. While MBOX reports the ability to handle a 4GB file, it never finishes indexing.

you can add literally anything in, and bypass the process to actually create an account with Thunderbird.

So-

Yes, it worked. I found that it was also an issue the the file name. It was longer than Mozilla wanted. I wonder now if the MBOX viewer would open it now also...

I see.

@Dashrender said in SuiteCRM - Followup impressions:

Did anyone use it at all during the 'trial' period? or did end users just at it and walk away?

I love the fact that the company at least was willing to try something - then move to something else.. instead of just being stuck.. it might be costly to do so.. but at least they are working toward a solution they will hopefully like and works well for them.

Yes. It was used by a trial group. But then afterwards, it was never a) forced or b) even pushed on the main users.

@JaredBusch said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:

@Dashrender said in HP Z440’s Bricked Hard:

By this I mean - we have to make our own image that includes the storage drivers so the image will boot and be able to detect the storage devices automatically and allow a typical installation.

This is overthinking things. You Boot to the Windows ISO and then simply click "Load driver" and have the driver on another USB.

No one in the SMB should be doing anything else. Building bootable images with all the right drivers? waste of time. You should not be installing often enough to worry about that.

You're not wrong - but I was trying to give the OP all the information.

@scottalanmiller said in Ninja RMM antivirus integration issues. Is Ninja even production ready?:

And they've been unable to offer any kind of viable backup system. Again, another conversation, but I asked about this at Spiceworld and their follow up was basically "we have no idea what our customers need in general but this one customer needs something unlike anyone else and we are only going to look at their needs" and totally ignoring the needs of the MSP or SMB market, which is really the only one that needs RMM on any scale, especially an RMM like this that does so little.

I swear, simply "not installing it" would make no difference, it seems to add nothing of value other than an inventory list, but that's manually maintained anyway, so we could just make wiki entries for a fraction of the effort.

It does have useful alerts, but nothing that can't be accomplished with open source software.

@openit said in Zentyal community edition - is ok for production? and using VLAN with Zentyal.:

EdgeRouter seems a cheap and very worthy product, may suggest my friend as well, who used to setup small offices (with around 15 workstations).

As well as... what? Absolutely it would not be okay to use anything he builds himself. One is the best default option, one is nearly the worst.

Thank you currently i put 30 days as wont let me add less to test it out i guess have to wait around a few weeks to test it out thank you again

Is there anything new with updating the script? 🙂

Thanks a lot for nice insights.

Inkscape can import cgm files.

@scottalanmiller said in Can You Use an HP 22-3019 AIO Just As a Monitor:

Turns out they misread the model number. It's a Dell Optiplex with no connectors.

The hell. . . Dell doesn't even look remotely close to HP.

The branding alone. . .

@JasGot said in Mail Server with app like google for testing:

@scottalanmiller said in Mail Server with app like google for testing:

That said, if you were doing Postfix (I prefer to Exim) and Dovecot and skipped the Webmin or any other front end piece and stuff 100% with NextCloud for the web interface then you could run on an even smaller instance with as little as 512MB of RAM easily.

I saw the 512 instance and thought the 10GB ssd might be too small for an IMAP mail server, and since it's only $1.5(ipv6) or $2.5(ipv4) cheaper.... 🙂

Oh true, that might be small. But for just two users, probably okay.

@JasGot said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:

@scottalanmiller said in Free Upgrade to Windows 10 in 2019 from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1:

Two weeks left for those trying to go from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The Free Upgrade depends on the OS being current, remember.

Do you think those people who have not upgraded by the 14th will be UNABLE to install and activate from their Windows 7 or 8.1 key?

Notice how I didn't ask about any licensing issues. I already know that answer. 🙂

Likely the ability to upgrade won't change, if there was time/date detection, we'd already have heard about it.

@Dashrender said in SAMIT: Do You Really Need Active Directory:

I am surprised that MS didn't come out with a better solution for this ages ago. That whole Direct Connect or whatever it was called - phone home VPN solution they have for Enterprise edition only - what a kluge.

They are working on phasing this out. DirectAccess was a kludge that is being replaced by Always-On-VPN. Which works on versions of Windows Professional and Up and requires very little outside of a certificate and Group Policies (or Intune).

It probably actually finished in the background and the gui was just hung. I wouldn't be surprised if you rebooted it and it told you it was preparing windows 10 for you and then booted up with the new environment.