These 20 drives are mapped for all users? or based on group membership?
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/12221.troubleshooting-the-drive-maps-preference-extension-in-group-policy-replace-mode-only-maps-the-drive-every-other-logon.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
This is a MS wiki/KB on this issue.
There is a Reg setting you can use, and also use the Reconnect option in the GPP. It goes into great explanation of why this happens.

@carnival-boy said in MSP or VAR or just avoid:

For an MSP to be truly agnostic it would either have to massive (to be able to employ both Oracle and SQL Server experts), or it is full of generalists who can support both but lack expertise in either.

That's part of the goal, or typical goals, of moving to the MSP model. They bring more scale and with scale comes agnosticism (the move towards it, but obtaining it as you pointed out.) You might not have expertise or experience with every OS out there, but even a moderately small MSP like NTG regularly supports and works with many databases. Not Oracle, which isn't a big deal as it has essentially no place in any intentional deployment, but MS SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, REDIS, MongoDB, SQLite, etc. all regularly supported.

MSPs are way more likely to have the desire and ability to grow support skill sets, although this can happen internally as well. But internal skill growth is costly and risky to maintain. For an MSP, skill growth increases potential customer support options. So MSPs have more incentive to consider things they've not done specifically before than internal IT departments do.

Nothing is perfect, but MSPs make agnosticism easier and more likely.

I got an old junker laptop I was going to play with CloudReady on:
https://www.neverware.com/freedownload

But I'm thinking instead I'll come to the dark side and try Fedora 27 on it

@emsanator said in Installing Guacamole on CentOS 7:

Hi, I get this error:

404 Not Found - 192.168.1.76:8080/guacamole/CLIENT.URL_OSK_LAYOUT

What would be the reason?
Thanks

Is that error causing any issues? The thread below talks about this error, and says that it is fine:

http://apache-guacamole-general-user-mailing-list.2363388.n4.nabble.com/INFO-Required-CLIENT-URL-OSK-LAYOUT-not-translating-td2399.html

@scottalanmiller said in KVM & Networking:

I have currently maybe 65 VMs on my KVM host, they each have their own IPs and are bridged. But there is a firewall and NAT sitting in front of all of it.

This is really how it is most cases regardless of hypervisor.

The only exception is in non-production when dealing with KVM + Wireless NIC... I haven't had time to see if I could get it to bridge somehow, so I'm stuck with NAT on my laptop. But, this is not an issue with servers, as they don't use wireless and this seems to be specific to wireless.

I would like to add few tips that I found useful (few of them I learned during support session with screenconnect team).

I have these session groups created:

Computers categorized based on their hostname start. We have different standards for server and endpoints.

GuestMachineName LIKE 'SRV*'

Filters all servers starting with SRV as a single group

HostConnectedCount > 0

This helps me to manage who is connected, used in situations when I hit a license limit or want to know who specifically connected to which session

GuestClientVersion < '6.5' AND GuestConnectedCount > 0

This shows the machines that are online and have an outdated client version. I just need to issue a reinstall command for those outdated agents.

@scottalanmiller said in Moving Away From Azure To Colo Server:

@fuznutz04 said in Moving Away From Azure To Colo Server:

@nashbrydges

I'll be in the same boat too. I get some free credits for Azure as well, and I can honestly say that I have never once had an issue with it. However, once my free credits expire, the costs of the VM will be far too expensive to keep it there.

We have free credits and we found them to be worthless.

I can't say the same, but I can say that after the credits run out, I won't be using them most likely.

I guess I am one of the lucky ones who just has a good experience with Azure so far. (that I have noticed) No downtime at all in over 2 years. I am in the East cost data centers. Perhaps that makes a difference.

@momurda said in Public DNS Provider Comparison:

Unlike FB, CloudFare actually makes products and sells them to customers.

An example: MangoLassi is a commercial CloudFlare customer. Without CF, we'd never be able to push the 200 million hits a month we sometimes take here!

Intel has had to backpedal on supporting Spectre on some older chips.

@jaredbusch said in Installing NodeBB with Mongo on CentOS 7:

@jaredbusch said in Installing NodeBB with Mongo on CentOS 7:

Guess I should update this one of these days

Wow.. I need to write an updated guide...

Just remember mongodb and nodejs can be installed natively on Fedora.
https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tech/database/mongodb/about.html
https://developer.fedoraproject.org/tech/languages/nodejs/nodejs.html

@brrabill said in "Export To Excel" Option in Onedrive for Business:

@scottalanmiller said in "Export To Excel" Option in Onedrive for Business:

@brrabill said in "Export To Excel" Option in Onedrive for Business:

I guess it just seemed odd to have it there, to serve up a listing of files.

I guess if no one can me can get to it, it's not a concern. But then, why put it there? Or only put it there for the users with access to it.

Well then, with that logic, why click on it?

I like to see what can break.

I mean for the users.

@scottalanmiller said in What do you think of my hypothetical HCI:

@tim_g said in What do you think of my hypothetical HCI:

Why not just use two or three Hyper-V Server 2016 nodes and StarWind vSAN?

That seems like a whole lot easier, cheaper, and way more effective.

And you totally missed "massively safer." Better storage, and way fewer moving pieces to fail.

Yeah that too of course! That was bundled into the "way more effective" bit.

It's like Windows. Windows is super secure. Maybe not RHEL secure, but really close. Effectively the same. But the Windows world is full of people who do insecure things and give the platform a bad name.

@scottalanmiller said in Phone Service Decision:

Keep in mind I oversee a competitor to RingCentral and am still recommending them 😉 This size is their sweet spot. RC is essentially unbeatable from 1-10 users because that's when they offer their $20/mo rate.

So for five users, that's $100/mo. Flat, easy, done.

Now you want 11 users, call me, I'll beat RC every time. But at 5, you can find a few options at the same price. But you really aren't going to find someone cheaper.

Same recommendation here as I also compete with @scottalanmiller in this space.

There is no way to beat $100/month flat.

@jaredbusch said in Rewriting A Single Resource URL On A Webpage:

@nashbrydges said in Rewriting A Single Resource URL On A Webpage:

@jaredbusch said in Rewriting A Single Resource URL On A Webpage:

@nashbrydges said in Rewriting A Single Resource URL On A Webpage:

Currently (which breaks proper tracking because the script is blocked by most browsers):
<script src="http://sub.domain.com/mtc.js" async data-source="mautic"></script>

A location should handle this.

in your :80 server block add a location

location /mtc.jc { rewrtie ^ https://sub.domain.com/mtc.js; }

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

Pulled that right out of my ass, it very well may not work. But you get the general idea.

It does work, as I have used it on Apache like my post below:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/16660/reverse-or-forward-proxy-setup/3

I have not seen that yet, but do you do Windows Drivers through Microsoft?

@nashbrydges said in Microsoft HTML5 Web RDS Client:

Wonder if this will be better than my Apache Guacamole install for RDP.

Likely, only because it needs one fewer components in the chain. But less flexible.

@fredtx said in Can I Restore files from c:\$recycle.bin\guid??:

@kelly said in Can I Restore files from c:\$recycle.bin\guid??:

You would probably have better success with a tool that can recover deleted files. I'm not sure what is the best these days. I used Recuva a few years ago and it did the trick, but it was finicky.

Yes. I ended up using EaseUS Data Recovery and it worked like a champ. Thanks for your feedback!

Also if you had Shadow Copies you might have been able to restore.

@danp said in XCP-ng project:

Good point. I've had to run XC on several occasions when XO was inaccessible.

I guess you could run the XOA command line installer and that should work to get you back up and running. Maybe it's not as big of an issue as I was originally thinking.

@g-i-jones said in New to server builds. Making new DC on domain.:

@kelly Thanks. Things are starting to pan out that way it seems.

Also, use this chance to consider if there are pieces that don't need to be on the domain. Might lessen the conversion process.