@krzykat said in VitalPBX reporting:

@Pete-S Not sure if he even has a CRM setup. Often when clients like an aspect of a current implementation, telling them that you can't, that you must do it a different way isn't always met positively. They say - Yes I want the new better stuff, but I still need this old piece.

Right!
There's no CRM and no need for CRM. Just need those two bits of info in the screen shots. More is fine, but must have this info, can even be laid out different and doesn't really need smileys.

@scottalanmiller said in Uptime Kuma - Self Hosted Monitoring:

If you want a dashboard, Netdata does that out of the box. If you want a pretty dashboard for Zabbix, then that's when Grafana is going to shine. Build an amazing sexy dashboard for your Zabbix data on Grafana to make management happy about a monitoring solution.

I've had some fun with Grafana, Telegraf, and InfluxDB but it's been a while.
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The above were done during one of our SMB S2D cluster proof runs. Grafana was great for helping to pinpoint what was going on while it was happening. We were able to do some pretty good tuning to pull off great IOPS and Throughput numbers from a little Intel Xeon E3 single socket platform with SATA SSDs for cache and SAS HDDs for capacity.

@Obsolesce said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@BraswellJay said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@Obsolesce said in Word to PDF converter ...:

@BraswellJay you don't need one with word. In Word, just export as pdf.

I can't do that in bulk that way though, can I?

My user may have 50 or so word files and she wants to convert them all to separate PDFs without having to open each one individually in word.

I thought there may be a tool that would just let her bulk select all and convert them all at once.

You can do it with PowerShell. Make a simple script for the user to run.

Here's one resource that works:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16534292/basic-powershell-batch-convert-word-docx-to-pdf

@Dashrender
This worked for me perfectly, being playing around with the settings for this a while without any luck, was missing NT Authority\System. Thanks a mil

@notverypunny said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:

Am I imagining things or did Windows licensing at one point allow for use of a virtual environment on top of the physical install? If this is (still?) the case, would a W10 install in vbox do the trick?

Licenses fo Windows Server editions allow this.
Standard Windows 10 licenses do not allow running in VMs.

@JasGot Intermedia doesn't' host as far as I know any Exchange Servers through Rackspace.

@NashBrydges said in MeshCentral2 Failed To Renew SSL Cert:

Failed to obtain certificate: Error finalizing order :: signature algorithm not supported

One final update. After more searching, I found this that referenced the actual error I was seeing about algorithm not supported.

https://github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral/issues/4676

After upgrading from v1.0 to v1.1 and rebooting, the cert automatically renewed and issue was resolved!

@dbeato said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@scottalanmiller You can use Splashtop which is great.

I second Splashtop. While not free, $5 a month won't break the piggy bank, and it works dang good.

@Lakshmana I don't understand the details here.

@Pete-S said in Do international TLD's have restrictions?:

@dimforest

For the .it TLD.

Who can register a .it domain?

"An unlimited numbers of .it domain names can be registered by anyone who is an adult and has citizenship, residence or commercial headquarters in the countries of the European Economic Area (EEA), in the State of the Vatican, in the Republic of San Marino and the Swiss Confederation."

Source, the Italian NIC
https://www.nic.it/en/find-your-it/how-register

Every country has their own NIC for their own TLD. Only some countries allow third parties to register, very few. More allow a citizen to register on behalf of a third party. Many don't allow that at all.

Italy requires a citizen to register on behalf of a third party (I'm a citizen, but it's a pay so use someone in country anyway). Colombia (that NTG uses) is open for anyone, that only opened up to the global public around 2010 and we got ntg.co literally in the first 15 minutes it was open having lost the lotto for niagara.co

@JasGot said in Going from Active Directory Domain to workgroup?:

(and thanks for staying on topic!)

Save this...
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Good way to make me not care about answering you.

so along these lines, does there exist any cloud (SAAS really) solution provide a, from box open, ability for central user authentication?

I'm guessing not.
With Windows we have AutoPilot that can have a OOBE that directly attaches it to Azure AD.

But for Mac, Linux OSes, maybe chrome OS, you'd have to have an admin setup the device first, likely add software/agent, then those devices could use Azure AD.

Of course Google has their own solution for Chrome OS, though I have no idea if they have agents for Windows/mac/Linux OSes to do the same?

@scottalanmiller said in Check_MK Monitoring tool:

@Lakshmana sorry, never used that tool.

Whether the Zabbix have that feature to send the slack notification ?

@JasGot said in How do some of these engineers get to where they are?:

@Carnival-Boy But if they have 100Mb now and it works fine, how will 100Mb be slow and choppy with a faster ISP?

That can actually happen. If you overdrive the router, packets arrive but dont get processed efficiently. Then it starts dropping things.

@DustinB3403 depending on what you want, you can also:

$app = Get-ChildItem -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall' | Get-ItemProperty | Where-Object -Property DisplayName -EQ "Microsoft Edge" $installDate = $app.InstallDate

@Fredtx said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

@dafyre said in Who's making the move to vSphere 8:

We are. Currently, my day job is heavily invested in the VMware ecosystem, and there's no likelihood that will change any time soon... So we are already at the point of testing it, though that probably wont' happen until after the New Year.

I haven’t looked at the vmware hcl, but I heard a lot of hardware is no longer supported. I also read that vmware no longer recommends booting from sd cards.

That's all correct. Part of the point of VMware (and to their credit) is to dramatically limit you to a small pool of high quality, well tested hardware. That's partially how they maintain stability.

KVM has a small pool of hardware smart to use. But "supports" almost anything. It's handy to know it will always work, but sucks because people deploy it on crap all of the time.

@JaredBusch said in 1 large disk or 2 smaller disks for a file server?:

@dafyre said in 1 large disk or 2 smaller disks for a file server?:

We just built a new Samba file server here

Question, what authentication method are you using? I'm debating this at a client now.

I think it's TDBSAM (passdb backend in the samab config file). It's AD Joined though, so it may be something else.