According to this non MS article, they aren't supported.

https://docs.menandmice.com/display/MM720/DNS+Resource+Records

@emad-r said in SyncCrypt Uses Graphic File to Cloak Ransomware in ZIP Phishing Payload:

@stus

I always wondered how this step would execute:

Sync.exe is extracted from the attachment

If I put the world nasty virus in .7z file, it is contained and cant get it out. It needs somebody else to take it out.

Same thing for virus in JPG, wont that execute in Windows Photo Viewer, how would that run the virus ?

Something just is missing in my head, I understand users can be dumb but still if your player, file handler does not have security vulnerabilities the virus wont start.

Sadly, many of them do.

@dashrender said in PORT - Rant about unsupported OS connecting to company VPN:

@dustinb3403 said in PORT - Rant about unsupported OS connecting to company VPN:

Why did it take 30+ calls to find out that the doctors personal equipment is running Ubuntu?

It took 30 calls and a 6 hour round trip to discover it was running Ubuntu - because their remote access solution wouldn't work either - likely because local kid didn't want them to know it Ubuntu - he was likely saying - aww, those idiots at the hospital, they don't know anything, Ubuntu will run anything.. LOL

Even if the application that the hospital is using, was built for Windows 2000, has no bearing on the matter of the VPN dropping the client.

Why the vpn server didn't have logging to say it was dropped because it was a blacklisted OS or anything else is the part that is insane. Even Cisco has this functionality. . (lol.. . )

@momurda said in The F*ck, anyone try it?:

"Hey boss, i want you to try out this new software. It is called !@#$. That is the actual name. Totally ready for business use. We should also tell our customers to install it as well. Ill go find a new job now, kthxbai."

This really isn't software that anyone would discuss. Just a command line editing tool.

@matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

@scottalanmiller said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@matteo-nunziati said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@scotth said in I tried NAS4Free, FreeNAS, OMV, ... Lots of suggestions to move to Linux. I'm willing. Point me please.:

@matteo-nunziati So, CentOS 7 , EXT4, LVM with compression turned on.
After all, I'm using consumer / smb desktop hardware. From what I've read, ZFS would require more resources than I have available if I wanted dedupe. My storage box will only have 8 GB RAM.

Generally go XFS but even ext4 is good. ZFS requires something like 1gb per raw tb of storage but mostrly for raid/compression. It raises up to 5gb per tb if you want dedup.
So 8gb=8tb of raw (pre raid) storage.
ZFS is nice byt you usually can go w/out its features in smb

The memory is for dedupe. It needs very little for compression and RAID. Those use CPU, but not RAM (much).

No you are right 1gb is for dedup

I do this a lot 😉

If it is shadow copy, you have to adjust how often Shadowcopies are taken. It's a pretty cool piece of included tech, but as you notice, it can put a strain on resources when it's copying. Deciding if this is something the company needs might be outside of IT's purview. They might decide the feature is so nice it's worth more hardware.

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX and SMS:

@ndc said in FreePBX and SMS:

Tinkering a bit with FreePBX at home and I saw there is an option for using SMS service with it. Documentation suggests that this only works with SIPStation and I was not especially looking to sign up with them.

Does anyone know if that function is really locked down to the one SIP provider? I saw that VoIP.ms has some support for SMS but wasn't able to find anything about whether that would work within FreePBX or not. All signs kind of point to this being a no go at the moment.

There is nothing locked down to a specific thing with Asterisk. Asterisk is completely FOSS.

FreePBX modules may or may not be FOSS as you see.

There have been SMS modules and scripts created over the years for Asterisk systems. I would have to dig into them to find something though. It has not been anything a client has requested recently.

SIPStation pricing is not the best, but if SMS is really needed, it is not all that expensive.

Thanks, I was not thinking about that in the right frame of reference.

I'll likely have a go at this and see what I can make happen.

@g-i-jones said in Windows 7 Pro Lock screen not applying.:

e already set up from factory as having the oobe\info\backgrounds directory made and registry value was already 1 on those

ewwww - a factory image?

I pulled a @jaredbusch and justed used voip.ms 😄

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

@fuznutz04 said in Vultr, Block Storage CentOS:

@travisdh1 So on second thought, I'm thinking it might be a better approach to redirect the call recordings to the block device directly, without extending the LVM volume to the block device. So it would be like this:

Attach block device and create partition and file system.
Mount the new device to a new directory (/callrecordings)
In FreePBX, point the call recordings to this new directory.

This way, the VPS disk, is still completely separate from the block device disk. In my head, this just seems cleaner, and has less potential for errors if the block device is ever unavailable.

Thoughts?

Yes, that makes way more sense.

The only thing that made me think of that was because about 2 weeks ago Vultr NJ had some issues with block storage. If they have an issue again, at least I could still boot the VM. (although I would have to remove the block device from the fstab. But then, It should boot fine I suppose. (crosses fingers)

@pravin said in Softphone for Linux???:

No, not working tried different OS and Versions.. I don't recognize

No matter what you try that one field just stays greyed out?

@matteo-nunziati said in replacement for netstat is ss:

yeas it is a lot of time since developers have created a new gen of net tools but still I feel more confy with old stile commands

Yeah, I'm more comfortable with the new things like ip instead if ifconfig every day, but still seems odd at times.

@penguinwrangler said in Enterprise backup: Citrix XenServer, RHEV, oVirt, KVM:

@matteo-nunziati Yes, I treat them independently. Which I would love to have the Veeam Appliance which can control them but money is too tight for that.

Let us know when the money isn't so tight 😉

@RestoronixSean

We have plans to add an in memory database to ML in the future when more performance is needed, as well.

Why not Wave?

Have not used it, I'm afraid.

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX for Family?:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX for Family?:

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX for Family?:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX for Family?:

@aaronstuder said in FreePBX for Family?:

What are some advantages to using FreePBX and not going direct to a VoIP provider?

SIP Provider Failover Free Extension to Extension Calling Maybe more Control? Voicemail, Call Forwarding, etc?

Extension to Extension is big for me. The whole family can call each other this way.

Except when you setup direct to VoIP.ms it is still ext to ext.

Oh really? And you don't pay per extension?

They are just sub accounts.

Interesting. That's pretty handy.

@guyinpv said in Small office phone setup, looking for improvements...:

Are we using IVR and voicemail greetings the same way?

Isn't IVR the interactive thing with menus and "press 1 for this" etc?

Nothing interactive about standard voicemail.

Does FreePBX have separate voicemail vs. IVR or is it all one in the same?

Separate

Cant you just use the wsus console to view this information? It will tell you how many computers and which computers need/have a specific update applied.
I suppose you could take that page, find the query it uses and copy it.
Or just use the console.