@jaredbusch said in Favorite Home NAS:

I am flat biased against the Netgear name. I have never liked them after the first couple home routers I tried from them way back around 2000 sucked balls.

Opinion reinforced in 2009 when my predecessors used Netgear switches at a client and we had issues setting up a basic VLAN trunk port (VLAN for guest WiFi).

Opinions reinforced again when we picked up a client in 2011 that had all Netgear switches and I could not get them to properly team with LACP when the switches said they could do it.

It's not just you, I've never liked them either due to similar issues.

Hopefully upgrading to the new updates runs smoother than it has in the past...

I ran out of test time the other day, for Fedora 26. But it seemed to have worked for that part.

I had other issues.

I have a HP DL360 running 24/7 at my house, I was initially concerned about the electricity for it, but my bill went up by a few dollars a month.

@brianlittlejohn said in NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED:

With SBS you use the built in wizards for everything. The SBS Wizard has a wizard to get a new cert put on the box.

Always this with SBS. Always.

Ok added your site. Scott's is on there too.

http://aindien.com/my-favorite-blogs/

@black3dynamite said in Macbook Pro unable to refresh OS:

@jaredbusch said in Macbook Pro unable to refresh OS:

@dashrender said in Macbook Pro unable to refresh OS:

@scottalanmiller said in Macbook Pro unable to refresh OS:

And by so many, I mean a few. But I know some, and I know zero that use Mac hardware and all run MacOS. Thirty years of consulting, seen many of the former and zero of the latter.

We have a doc that demanded a Mac laptop, even knowing that he will have to have windows to access some remote access stuff. /sigh

Install Win 10 on it. Will run great

Does Windows 10 automatically detects all drivers or we still need the boot camp drivers?

No boot camp needed

Any big new features coming in 27? I mean it is always a bit of an update, but just wondering what to be on the look out for.

@scottalanmiller said in MS Licensing - 3rd:

Just search "Windows 7 vdi licensing" and the MS PDF is the first hit.

So that's where they hide it... in the EULA of a separate product or whatever you want to call it.

But yeah, it's pretty clear in there.

@storageninja said in The argument for official support vs third party support:

@dashrender said in The argument for official support vs third party support:

Same problem for the vendors. If you are dealing with unpatched spares, so are they. Having worked for some of the big ones, I know that their supply chains struggle to get parts, too. Heck, IBM couldn't deliver a server internally in more than six months, imagine how hard it is to get support parts!

Shit like this just blows my mind.

Parts Bins, internal supplies for labs, and customer supply chains are all completely different (well IBM may have been a gong show). Dell and HPE staff can't just go grab something off the line, with Mfg you have to account for the costs and someone gets to pay (and often at a premium to prevent abuse) for those internal servers.

Parts Bins and stocking those are different, and supply chain for a OEM might actually be different in the us than EMEA.

At IBM< we were an external customer, even though we were inside IBM. We showed up just like any external enterprise customer. So their inability to support was universal.

It's a crazy way of looking at it, but it's MS after all.

Not that there is much that can be done about it.

@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@jaredbusch said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@scottalanmiller said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

@dave247 said in Best DNS choice for a financial institution?:

So then what good/safe/secure/reliable/free DNS servers should I be using?? All I know of right now is google and DNSwatch..

Google. It's what everyone uses. Unless you are going to pay for something, which is perfectly fine as things like Cisco Umbrella really do a good job, you just use Google. Google's DNS servers are screaming fast, insanely secure, and standard the world over. Google's only competition was OpenDNS' free servers and they were only competitive when they did free filtering and other tools. Without that, Google is still the best. So no reason to look around for anything else.

rips hair out google it is then

LOL, remember it is IT, "keeping it simple" is often the right answer.

Yeah I can't remember why, but for some reason I remember changing my thoughts about "just setting DNS to google" ... like it wasn't the best thing to do or something.

Best thing is likely a service like Umbrella. But for free, nothing will touch Google.

An alternative to Umbrella is Strongarm.io. They have recently added content filtering options to their service which was originally only designed to interrupt connections to malicious sites.

Yes. Probably much cheaper than Cisco, too. OpenDNS was great before Cisco bought them. I'd personally be pretty wary of using a Cisco service, my interactions with Cisco are pretty consistent that they lack integrity and so I don't see them as a company I would trust in any situation where they were involved in security. They don't seem to have a lot of ethics and that is a big deal when talking about security products - what good is their security if you can't trust the people who are the security people!

Definitely check out Strongarm.io. If you are going to be in Austin in two weeks, Strongarm will be hanging out with us on Sixth!

Same impression I get

Have you tried Strongarm? How do you like it?

@wls-itguy said in CERTBOT renewal fails:

@jaredbusch said in CERTBOT renewal fails:

How did you run certbot the first time?

You mean the very first time? I can't remember what I did 5 minutes ago 🙂

Documentation! I know it's a pain, and often takes 5x longer than actually doing anything, but it's so very needed.

We (at Scale) have done a lot of work with Workspot for easy VDI solutions on Scale HC3. We have also done a lot of testing and validation around more traditional terminal services approaches like XenApp and Microsoft RDS. Both approaches have merit and vary in their value proposition, management, and approaches. Of course, a lot of Scale customers use the "simple" VDI approach of simply running Windows 8 or Windows 10 desktop VMs on top of their cluster and using the stock RDP options to connect to them, no special VDI products needed if you want to go that route. There are free front ends for this approach as well, we know that someone here in MangoLassi has used Guacamole, instead of RDS, as a front end connection aggregator for exactly that purpose.

@nerdydad said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jaredbusch said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@tim_g said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jaredbusch said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

@jmoore said in Hyper-V Host - Member of the domain or not:

I enable the local admin and set a secure password for everything here as sometimes machines quit responding to the Windows domain controller and I have to have a way to reset things.

By stating that you enable local admin, I want to know how it was disabled in the first place.

I don't know what the issue is here.

When you install Hyper-V Server, you can't log in any way other than local admin. Maybe after you join it to the domain you can disable the local admin account, which is weird to do...

That is entirely my point.

This was supposed to be more of a "Best Practices" question. I really don't have a problem situation in front of me, but wanted to better understand best practices when setting up a Hyper-V host.

I have setup a number of Windows 10 client devices and noticed that the local admin is disabled. I assumed (though never experienced) that the situation would be the same for a Hyper-V host.

Local Administrator account in Windows Servers and Hyper-V is enabled by default. Windows desktops has the local administrator account disabled by default.

No enterprise logistics systems run on Windows already. All major platforms either run on Unix or are literally made by the Unix vendors themselves. The leader in the space is Oracle.

@nagendra Strange, let me check.

It's not that college is always bad, it just comes with negatives that have to be weighed against the positives. The standard approach is to assume that instead of going to college (whether at 18 or mid-career) is to assume that the person will do absolutely nothing productive with their free time, accept the same stagnation and all other negatives that come with the educational process, and that they will then compete toe to toe after the one has completed college and the other has just waited for them to finish.

But in the real world, someone ambitious enough to have gone to college for career reasons is also ambitious enough to work harder at their jobs, done a side job, gotten certs, learned on their own, moved on to another job, or so forth. Those are the more realistic actions of the other person that had the option of college. So when making the comparison, you have to look at those opportunities and look at the opportunities from the degree process and weight them in that fashion.

@tim_g said in RAID 5 URE Clarity Question:

Yeah I do see.

I experienced 2 of them in almost a single week. Though they were just for testing hardware and didn't contain any real data so no losses... They were very old drives too so it was expected after forcing a rebuild.

One was a 5TB raw RAID 5 (5x 1tb drives), the other was 1tb something raw, a bunch of old 15k 300gb SAS.

Actually the 5TB one got a URE, the other one, a 2nd drive failed, not a URE.

Actually it is unknown if UREs go up over time. Likely they do, but the statistics are only average rate and don't state when or what variables contribute to higher or lower rates.