@dbeato said in Dell Machines Unable to VPN Due to SmartByte Bloatware:

@scottalanmiller said in Dell Machines Unable to VPN Due to SmartByte Bloatware:

SmartByte, a bit of bloatware or possibly malware - certainly closer to malware than not, is shipping by default on some Dell laptops and desktops. If you are doing a clean OS install as is best practice, this bloatware will be unknown to you. But if you keep the random stuff that ships with your machine, you may run into networking problems. SmartByte has been found by Cisco (and us, now that we know about it with clients) to break network connections and specifically has been found to cause VPNs to fail to connect.

You'll need to disable, or better remove, or best do a proper, clean OS install, to get your machine able to network reliably.

None of my Dell Devices has ever come with this. Not even laptops bought through Amazon. In the past Dell and HP have had the Cisco AnnyConnect client but that is found more on home and retailers like Best Buy, Staples or such.

Then again I don’t buy Dell Inspiron (Which are the ones with SmartByte for sure)

I never run into it because I would never run a machine without doing a proper OS install, you never know what is on there. But we ran into this (and I've been ranting about how people got into the process of not doing a clean install - dealing with that separately) just now because someone had a machine that didn't get installed and, of course, terrible bloatware problems.

@wls-itguy said in Cannot SFTP into Webhost:

Your comment would work normally. However, it was an update that indeed broke the system only to have to search for the fix again on their site.

Oh my...any pointers for us here?

I have been using it for the last 3 days, seems to be stable so far.

I have not used it, I disabled it on my recent install.

@momurda said in Intel's NVMe VRoC System Now Out:

If an SSD is rated at 1DWPD for 5 years and in actual use one only uses .2DWPD, does that mean that such an ssd would nominally last 25 years barring some other catastrophic hw failure not related to the destructive nature of flash program and erase cycles?

All reliability is about chances of failure. So it’s likely to last that long.

See the following for ideas as to how you can accomplish what you're seeking to do:

https://macmule.com/2011/09/08/how-to-map-drives-printers-based-on-ad-group-membership-on-osx/

@stess https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/platformspfe/2014/01/20/integrating-xaml-into-powershell/ look at this. It gives the basics of integrating XAML into a PowerShell script and might be right what you are looking for.

@irj said in When a C-level gets the boot:

@bbigford said in When a C-level gets the boot:

The CEO of that company is an enterprise admin. Why they have this or where they find the time to do anything on the network without breaking lots of things is beyond me. I asked about it, but was never given a valid response; moving on...

As a consultant, why would you not make a bigger deal out of that?

As a consultant, you only want to bring it up. Let them determine the level of deal that it is for them.

Glad that you figured it out.

@crustachio said in ESXi Physical to Virtual NIC Ports Configuration?:

@shuey

Ah, sorry, bad assumption on my part.

No worries - I work for one of those companies that falls outside what's probably considered the "norm" - I've been here for over 5 years so I'm pretty used to it now 😄

@travisdh1 said in Using RASDIAL to connect to configured VPN:

Are you sure it's not the same kernel bug that @JaredBusch found?

The Kernel issue is not on the ER side.

@stuartjordan said in Yealink T19PE2 FreePBX:

I personally like freepbx and will continue using it, the interface is a bit dated I must admit, but that doesn't bother me.

FreePBX interface is definitely dated. But also .... why would the interface ever matter that much? But even if it did, I've used 3CX and their interface was far worse.

@dave247 you might have a look at this thread. I think it could be useful for you.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/pt-BR/745577a2-d035-4a4e-80ce-ea2a68370e19/replacing-domain-controllers-reuse-ip-and-server-dns-names?forum=winserverDS

@justin867 said in Ruc kus WIFI contr oller - disable website re-direct:

ow to disable wesite re-direct in Ruc kus WIFI contr oller?

Is this for Guest Wireless access?

@nerdydad said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating:

@aaronstuder said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating:

@nerdydad any firewalls in the way?

No firewalls this go around. There have been some network changes, but nothing in the way of firewalls.

@tim_g said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating:

@nerdydad said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating:

Have a MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter that won't activate. I have tried GUI in system properties and settings and have tried DISM. Ran for updates and all patched up. Tried activation again, and not working. Anybody have any ideas?

What's the error you get?

Typically it was that it can't upgrade the server to that licensing because it was already there.

@black3dynamite said in MS Windows Server 2016 Datacenter not activating:

Have you tried activating using Windows Software Licensing Management Tool?
slmgr.vbs

I didn't know this existed, but will hold on to it for the future. Thanks.

The SLMGR is awesome
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2016/10/19/windows-server-2016-volume-activation-tips/

@scottalanmiller

Yes, we have two DC SAN and DR SAN both configured with storage replication,Now, Failover cluster disks placed from DC SAN to Node1 and Node2 and When DC SAN goes down state, We will plan to map replicated windows quorum disks from DR SAN , if i will add replicated windows quorum disks means, it is possible to windows cluster start without any issues, ?? or replicated windows quorum disks is possible ???

Uber, like pretty much anyone their size, probably uses a combination of their own datacenters and cloud for scaling. Some large players go purely cloud to keep things simple and consistent. Others do a mix so that they don't have to pay for their own scaling.

@jaredbusch said in Linphone:

@dustinb3403 said in Linphone:

@jaredbusch said in Linphone:

@stuartjordan your sip domain contains your password.

sip:ext:[email protected]:5061

But not according to the windows interface. . . it should put the info in there. . .

F windows.

It's F#

Veeam just announced this week that they now consider ReFS to be ready for production use for the first time due to last week's WIndows Server patch that addressed some ReFS issues.

@syko24 said in Freepbx Trunk Randomly Goes to Rejected Status:

@jaredbusch said in Freepbx Trunk Randomly Goes to Rejected Status:

@syko24 Here are the instructions for making a CHAN_SIP trunk.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/12327/setting-up-a-sip-trunk-in-freepbx-13/2

Thanks again! So I assume you are using pjsip from phones to pbx and chan_sip on your trunks? Or have you completely switched everything to chan_sip at this point?

PJSIP on phones to PBX. Always.

The key differences in PJSIP are server side enhancements. Nothing removed a SIP communication bit.

I use both SIP and PJSIP for trunks. I always try PJSIP first. If I have issues with a provider, I will switch it to SIP.