@g-i-jones I an Barracuda Spam Filtering Certified Engineer so I would recommend to get to know the Web filtering tool, make sure to have a current subscription.

I've had less than stellar experiences with HP's laptops. There are always little niggling issues. Our most recent (and likely last) set of them had significant issues with USB C docks that worked flawlessly on equivalent generation Dells.

As for MacBook Pros, they make up about 90% of our machines. And I really, really dislike them. The more that Apple does to lock them down, the harder they are to work with. Then you add in the issues that are still extant with docking solutions (slowly being solved a year after release). The '16/17 MBPs are not the same build quality as the '12-14s. Not even close.

We are buying Dells almost exclusively for our Windows needs. I really like the XPS line for power, portability, and battery life.

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

@eddiejennings said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX - Thinking Through Directories:

Quantify your concern. What exactly are you worried will happen?

For the direct-dialing concern, I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't think my concern through fully. I suppose the worst that can happen is a department would be annoyed by potential crank calling their queue directly rather than waiting through the IVR options. But then again, they can simply memorize which single digit to press, and achieve the same thing.

If someone can dial you, they can dial you. Imagine this same discussion about email. "We have to hide our email DLs and aliases, what if people EMAILED us?!?!?"

Um... yeah, that's the idea.

Point taken.

Count me in.

Lenovo is nothing but horse droppings, if you know what I mean.

@scottalanmiller said in Oracle Laid Off Most Of Solaris Team:

@marcinozga said in Oracle Laid Off Most Of Solaris Team:

I hope all these devs form some entity and continue to work on Solaris fork. I'd love to see OpenSolaris come to life again.

Often they can't because they've seen too much closed code 😞

What if they move north of the border? Or south...

Sorry, typed it and then retyped the sentence and forgot that part. Windows 10. Latest release.

@scottalanmiller said in Is ZeroTier failing:

Sounds like maybe they are having a problem?

I gave up trying to report it on Saturday when their stupid community / slack thing did not work.

This is a service only paid accounts have,

@stacksofplates said in Another Gov't (maybe) Breach:

@scottalanmiller said in Another Gov't Breach:

When you hire the lowest bidder in a market segment with no pride in their work, the number of resources isn't really a factor.

im just trying to understand from my experience with this. Money is thrown at things, not people. Very expensive things are purchased and sometimes never used and just sit there. But they can't "afford" to pay for real talent.

That's what I meant with unlimited resources. Again only in my experience, the money is thrown in the most incorrect place possible.

I'm seeing this all the time, everywhere right now.

@emad-r

Solved seem was related to npm app I installed but didnt understand what it will do, its called forever and you can , it was duplicating the NodeBB service.

I removed it and rebooted the server and the npm log seems correct:

[deprecated] `String.prototype.rtrim` is deprecated as of NodeBB v1.5; use `utils.rtrim` instead. 5/9 00:15:31 [1294] - info: [socket.io] Restricting access to origin: http://192.168.1.39: 5/9 00:15:31 [1294] - warn: [plugins/load] The following plugins may not be compatible with your version of NodeBB. This may cause unintended behaviour or crashing. In the event of an unresponsive NodeBB caused by this plugin, run `./nodebb reset -p PLUGINNAME` to disable it. nodebb-plugin-markdown 5/9 00:15:31 [1294] - info: Routes added 5/9 00:15:31 [1294] - info: NodeBB Ready 5/9 00:15:31 [1294] - info: Enabling 'trust proxy' 5/9 00:15:31 [1294] - info: NodeBB is now listening on: 0.0.0.0:4567

@stacksofplates said in Lowest Possible WiFi AP:

You'll likely spend more in time trying to figure something out than just buying a Ubiquiti AP and turning it down.

AP: "Hi, I'm your new Ubiquiti, how can we hook up your network today?"
Me: "Oh sorry, we've decided to go in another direction."

^^^ Me turning down the Ubiquiti.

The other option is x2go, which is based on the NX protocol. It's been long enough since I last used it, I can't remember if it did what you want. But I am pretty sure that it will do it.

I just re-OS'ed my rPi3 yesterday.. so I haven't had much time to do much with it, but load some of the software I use.

@tim_g said in UrBackup vs Veeam:

I don't think urbackup supports hyperv vss for backing up VMs without downtime. You will need to back up VMs from inside them, as if they are a physical server.

So if you want to back up VMs at the host level, which is a major benefit of virtualization, then you are stuck using a non open source backup solution. If you want free, then you will just have to use the built in Windows Server Backup or hope you are within the limits of the free stuff like Unitrends.

If you have the time to figure out how to get AMANDA to use hyperv vss for example, do share!

Right, it's simple agent only.

@syko24 said in Office365 spam:

ms have in common is that the sender/reply-to address is from a domain that is also using Office365 for email. I assume what is happening is the domain sending the emails is someone who fell for the scam and now their email account is being used to send spam to other Office365 accounts because they are unlikely to be marked as spam.

I have users that receive emails from Office 365 senders and they are not in office 365 which means is an Spam problem and not an Office 365 problem. Even if you host emails in Office 365 you should either adjust your Spam Filtering or use an external Spam Filtering.

@emad-r said in ESXi 6.5 standalone host help export big VM ?:

So writing this to raise awareness, cause newer ESXI 6.5 update 1 refuses the old C# VMware Vsphere client.
Thanks.

Yeah, the Vsphere Client was removed on version 6.5 even for Windows as well. The OVF Tool is what has been recommended to export and import...

@s-hackleman said in Fire fighting to project balance:

@wirestyle22 Our stuff is more setup and config. For example, we want to manufacture a new widget. So many things have to be setup and configured before that process can start. We get contacted at the last second. Then we end up troubleshooting an emergency issue that could have been scheduled. I think SLA's may be the way to go, even if it is just 4 hours, it may prevent task switching as being moved off project work 3-5 times a day is pretty common.

But like Wired mentioned, it's just as likely that your boss will get the call, and they will make you starting working on it ASAP. This really needs to come from your boss, and your boss needs to be willing to go to bat for the situation, and his higher ups need to agree this as well. If any one in the chain breaks down, well the rest is pretty much for not.

Another example taken from another script:

import-module activedirectory $domain = "domain.mydom.com" $DaysInactive = 90 $time = (Get-Date).Adddays(-($DaysInactive)) # Get all AD computers with lastLogonTimestamp less than our time Get-ADComputer -Filter {LastLogonTimeStamp -lt $time} -Properties LastLogonTimeStamp | # Output hostname and lastLogonTimestamp into CSV select-object Name,@{Name="Stamp"; Expression={[DateTime]::FromFileTime($_.lastLogonTimestamp)}} | export-csv OLD_Computer.csv -notypeinformation

@dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces versus Hardware RAID, how do you decide?:

@creayt said in Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces versus Hardware RAID, how do you decide?:

@nashbrydges said in Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces versus Hardware RAID, how do you decide?:

Which setting was it that you changed from what to what?

It's in the system setup section, can't remember exactly where, but something along the lines of "set link speed to gen2/3", guessing that toggles the PCIe mode, thereby adding way more bandwidth between the drives and RAID controller. I don't have physical access to the servers at the moment so can't get in there to give you the exact info, sorry. But Link gen speed 2/3 should be enough to help you spot it if it's in your options.

LOL thought you loved iDRAC? 😛

They're currently sitting in boxes inbetween datacenters so unless you know about a more Harry Potterish version of iDrac that requires no electricity or Internet connection I don't think iDrac will help. :PPPP

@scottalanmiller said in Dual boot file storage:

Consider something like NextCloud, why store the files locally?

In the Use Case; Not on:

local network wifi completely detached from network(s)

@jfath said in AD best practices:

So... still the remaining first question - is there any problem with putting DC, DNS, DHCP, and FS roles all on a single VM? Should FS be split?

AD DC, DNC and DHCP should be all one VM. FS is an acceptable function to mix with your DC when you need to. But ideally, you'd have it split. So if the VM licensing exists, split it out.