@tim_g said in Cell phones survey:

@wrx7m said in Cell phones survey:

@tim_g Remove it for a couple days and see if your freezing stops.

I'll try that.

Crossing my fingers XX

@marcinozga said in New Ransomware Strain Evades Machine Learning Security Software:

@stus said

What do you do when all filters have failed?

What do you do? You don't allow scanning to email, period. Email inboxes are not file stores. Most of these machines allow you to scan to SMB share. Users need to learn to use file shares for storing files, not their email clients.

I have only setup scanning to SMB shares, so I am hoping that I don't have to deal with this. But users always surprise you in new and horrible ways.

You can do a LUN Backup Task:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/HyperBackup/lunbackup

Couple of posts on this as well:
https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=120277
https://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?t=98279
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1120540-easily-migrate-iscsi-target-to-different-nas-volume

@gjacobse So basically you want to iterate through a list of computers the same script correct? So do you have a list of computers? What are other steps on your script? because what we can do is the following

*$computers = import-csv -Path "c:\script\computers.csv" foreach ($oldname in $computers){ Rename-Computer -NewName $newname -DomainCredential domain\admin -Restart}

This assumes you have a CSV file with a oldname and new name columns with computer names.

@scottalanmiller Ok thanks!

@olivier said in Xenserver and Storage:

And it's second time I heard about the "intelligent split brain" management on StarWind but didn't see any paper nor a start of explanation about how it works (nor even a simple link). Can you elaborate please? If it's the witness node, it's the classical thing, but I'm curious about the split brain protection without using a witness node.

My understanding is they can do multiple links, multiple heartbeats,

Or a discrete and Stateful witness service on a 3rd system that will completely solve the problem.

VMware vSAN prevents this on 2 node and stretched clsutering by keeping witness components with sequence numbers on the witness system. In a vote is called the one has a updated sequence number matching the winner that side wins. In the event a stretched cluster partitions and both have matching sequence numbers the "Primary" side wins.

I'd argue isolation behavior goes beyond the storage heartbeat to how isolation is handled at the VM and Hypervisor level. STNITH is kind of a barbaric way ot handle this in 2017.

Other fencing systems that exist in VMware are for HA. Pings between hosts (Default on management network, moved to vSAN network if in use) Isolation address's (can have multiple) and heartbeats through datastore heartbeats (a file that is updated) for non-vSAN datatsore's. Based on this you can configure different VM and host isolation responses (maintain power, power off, shut down etc).

Apple went from successful company that charges a price that the market appears willing to bear, to a greedy, grasping, company when they removed the 3.5mm jack on the iPhone and didn't put a compatible iPhone charging port on the MBP. It takes an absurd number of dongles to listen to your iPhone while charging it from a MBP. And what is the point of not having an HDMI port on the MBP? You saved an entire mm with that one Apple. THANK YOU.

I'm not salty at all.

@jaredbusch said in SIP Softswitch Real Addr vs Gave Addr:

@gjacobse said in SIP Softswitch Real Addr vs Gave Addr:

I am not sure how this will relate,.. but I am staring at our PBX and and this page. And then I see the different port numbers - It's interesting to see so many that are not 5060

No relation. this is NAT networking 101.

All of your devices connect to pbx.ntg.co:5060
But their local outbound ports cannot all be 5060. How would the router know which devices to translate it back to.

Yup,. I get that. - well anyway. moving right along...

@dashrender said in Online TV Providers:

@nerdydad said in Online TV Providers:

@dashrender said in Online TV Providers:

Of course the one thing cable doesn't give me is anywhere access to my recorded shows.

Build yourself a Plex server, get a CableCard, and buy the PassPort and now you can.

Really it's not that big of deal. When I'm not home, I rarely have time for show watching.. so having a bundle at home for a binge weekend is fine.

That said, I do want to put a Plex system together, I'm just trying to decide how much I want to spend on it.

I put together a micro ATX system with an i5 (integrated graphics), 8GB of RAM, an SSD I had lying around for OS and a spare 6 TB drive. I'm running Windows 10 on it and I hibernate it when not in use.

I am using an Android app called WOL Wake on LAN WAN https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benfinnigan.wol&hl=en (very ugly interface but works perfectly) and I just have shortcuts on my home screen that I tap and it instantly resumes from hibernation.

To hibernate my system again, I use another Android app called Shutdown Start Remote that has a corresponding java-based client that runs on the PC at startup. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.vrallev.shutdown.android&hl=en

EDIT: I am using either my phone, Rokus, Fire TV or web browser to access the plex server.

Well that answers that. LOL Now I will have to redeploy to everyone and maintain different versions. Oh well. PDQ Deploy to the rescue.

not having much luck...... It's Friday so giving up till Monday/Tuesday 🙂

@penguinwrangler said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

@hobbit666 said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for an Ultrabook for Linux and Development:

I tried customizing those, and 16GB of RAM wasn't available.

Yeah I've noticed the customization option on all products has gone down hill a lot.

Yes, I started looking and it is like WOW this is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I have to say though I haven't looked for a "powerful" machine in such a long time.

No kidding!

You can try the following command:

(get-aduser -filter *).count

For only Enabled User Accounts
(get-aduser -filter *|where {$_.enabled -eq "True"}).count

For only Disabled User Accounts
(get-aduser -filter *|where {$_.enabled -ne "False"}).count

I had the same problem:

Microsoft includes a command-line utility with Certificate Services called certutil. This utility performs various operations on certificate files, including converting them to and from base64 format.

Note that this command is run on your certificate server, which, in your environment, may be different from your Exchange server. If so, you need to copy the binary .req file to the certificate server, or make it accessible via a shared network folder or removable storage device.

Open a command prompt on the certificate server and navigate to the folder where your binary .req file is, then type the following command:

certutil -encode yourbinaryinputfile yourasciioutputfile

Example:
certutil -encode der.exchange.example.com.req pem.exchange.example.com.req
You can then open the output file in Notepad and confirm that it is in the correct format to upload to your certifying authority.

@rojoloco - This happened right before it switched to Kodi

@stuartjordan said in Fusion Pbx snom 300:

@scottalanmiller - I think I did add some tags Scott, did I type them in wrong?

You did add them, I modified them. You tagged "fusion pbx" but the product and the existing tag is "fusionpbx", no space. So you created a new tag that re-inforced this not being FusionPBX 🙂

When typing in a tag, look for the autocompletely list. This will tell you if a tag for that topic already exists and how it is spelled. We try to make the tags be identical to product names when possible. Often with manual clean ups. In this case, the list when you start typing "fusion" is enough to show "fusionpbx" and you can just select it. That way you know for sure that the topic is linked to the other topics that are related.

@jmoore said in Linux vulnerability found - effecting Debian and RedHat:

@stacksofplates Oh that is interesting, I didn't know that.

Ya it forces it to use the legacy mmap layout which isn't vulnerable. Once you are able to reboot then you should be able to remove it.

@scottalanmiller said in Phones:

@fuznutz04 said in Phones:

GS has come a long way since even a year ago.

New models this year?

They are always upgrading their models it seems. But I was referring to their firmware. The firmware improves with each release, and adds stuff that should have been there in the first place, as well as bug fixes as usual.

@jaredbusch - I thought that is what you meant but did a double-take. LOL