I'd get in there and talk Office 365. Work up some example prices and lay out some risks.

I would guess that for the price of SalesForce that you have support. I would call them.

@Dashrender said in XOA Pricing Model - What might it look like from a US perspective:

the main thing I can think of - is general desktop support - but really, if it's more than a 10 min fix (which I would think would be IT stuff - assuming not hardware), then you should probably be wiping and reloading, right?

Depends on what you are fixing, but generally, yes. But even this, you don't want a generalist for that. You want a desktop support specialist. The only role you want a generalist in, ever, is department oversight.

@BRRABill said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@BRRABill said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@wirestyle22 said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

@dafyre said in Powershell Book Recommendations:

That is an excellent book. That's how I got started with PS about a year ago.

first or second link?

Second link. The Month of PowerShell lunches. That's pretty good.

How long of a lunch do you get?

However long I need, lol. Usually ~45 mins or an hour.

Yeah, that was kind of a joke, referring to the title of the book.

/facedesk.

I now have two brain cells left for the day.

We use Zoom for pretty much everything here.

@DustinB3403 said in File Auditing:

Did @scottalanmiller make a guide on how to setup ELK and getting logging started?

I did. It's on here somewhere 🙂

I prefer Graylog in most cases, though. It's come a long way.

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 26 auto partition:

@JaredBusch said in Fedora 26 auto partition:

@black3dynamite said in Fedora 26 auto partition:

@FATeknollogee said in Fedora 26 auto partition:

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For a 500gb disk, is there any reason to not accept this setup?
Should /home be on a separate VG?

What if we add another 1TB disk, that should be on a separate VG?

If you do keep the default partition and want to use KVM, you will have to store the virtual disks in /home. Or during install, you remove /home and give the rest back to /.

Why? On my desktop I keep my vdisk on a separate drive mounted as /kvm_store.

It makes sense to resize or choose a larger partition when you don't have another drive available.

The whole point of LVM is to make everything easy to change latter should you need to.

@BRRABill said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@scottalanmiller said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

@DustinB3403 said in 5Nine Free Hyper-V Manager No Long Available:

Flat out saying it "cost to much to take your money" is literally turning customers away.

It is, but it is also turning away small customers that might not be profitable and what they have to consider is the risk that this poses to bigger customers. I don't agree with the approach, but they have sound logic for why they do what they do. All customers are not good customers.

If I remember the conversation correctly (we went through all of this with @olivier on a ML thread) that was the crux of it, that it cost too much to support the smaller clients, since they don't have that many people.

Combined with the risk of losing the big clients that they currently have.

Dolphin does not see it.

Nemo sees it,.. 100GB device.

Just did a attachment drag and drop into a new email.

Platform: Korora 25
Browser: Firefox
File type: PDF

No issues.

@Dashrender yea mine is version 5 something (its about as old as @scottalanmiller is)

I should add that this is not exactly true. "Windows Dedupe" is not available in Hyper-V, which might sound obvious, as it is a Windows feature. But Hyper-V does have ReFS which has a new feature in 2016 that is not called dedupe but acts like a really light dedupe option. So while "Windows Dedupe" is not available, there is a dedupe technology available to use. But it's not a great one, it's super basic. But it also has like zero overhead, so can be pretty nice to use even if it doesn't do a lot.

Been a while. I'm trying out Nylas N1 again, this time on Korora and mostly used against Zimbra. It's fully free now, but they've forgotten to remove the "upgrade" links all over the place that now go to 404 pages.

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@wirestyle22 said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@wirestyle22 said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@wirestyle22 said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

@scottalanmiller said in Remote Monitoring with Zabbix:

A proxy is better than separate monitoring tools. What is it that you want to monitor?

It would be a proxy at each site though. Hardware and service monitoring with e-mail alerts

Yes. But then you'd have a central console rather than needing to log in to each separately to check in.

At that point why wouldnt I put a Zabbix server at their site and use Teamviewer or something to access it?

Teamviewer? Why not SSH? Or Salt?

Because I'm not going to be here forever and I'm the only person that understands (sort of) the linux command line.If I did this in vultr it wouldnt matter though. TV would be pointless. That was referencing the onsite virtualized Zabbix server though

At some point, you just have to assume that they must hire someone capable or they are screwed anyway. This isn't a case of making something complex that you need to struggle to find support for, it's a case of very basic skill that anyone potential competent can learn in minutes and getting support from anywhere is available. If they have a problem with this, they can't support Windows either - but might look like they are. So it's the opposite of your thought process, you are putting them at the biggest support risk making it LOOK like they are able to support something that they cannot.

You're right. I'll setup SSH.

@coliver said in Sysprep won't run if a drive has Bitlocker enabled:

@Dashrender said in Sysprep won't run if a drive has Bitlocker enabled:

@coliver said in Sysprep won't run if a drive has Bitlocker enabled:

@dbeato said in Sysprep won't run if a drive has Bitlocker enabled:

@coliver Did you setup a Microsoft account on them?

No domain joined machines.

Are you sure Bitlocker isn't on, just not activated?

I'm not sure what you mean? Bitlocker is a part of the operating system... you need to turn it on to enable encryption. So if you're asking if it is installed the answer is yes. If you're asking if it is enabled the answer is no.

Bitlocker has three states, as far as I can tell

Bitlocker Off Bitlocker On, but not activated - not encrypting drive Bitlocker activated

In my experience, a BIOS based machine puts Windows 10 into option 1 above.
My recent experience has shown that machines with UEFI and Secure Boot enabled that Windows 10 puts the system in option 2 or 3 depending on setup.
If you add a Microsoft Account while going through OOBE, the Windows will create a recovery key for Bitlocker, save it to your OneDrive account, and use option 3.
If you add a local account during OOBE, Windows will put the system into option 2.

@scottalanmiller said in South Korean Firm Pays Massive Ransom:

@IRJ said in South Korean Firm Pays Massive Ransom:

@scottalanmiller said in South Korean Firm Pays Massive Ransom:

Which Linux distros are you using in the example? Just CentOS / RHEL? Are you looking at several? That RHEL and Suse are super secure I have little doubt. Get much beyond that and anything might happen.

Mostly CentOS / RHEL, but I have quite a few Ubuntu severs as well.

Any noticeable difference between those two?

CentOS / RHEL are more solid as you may have guessed. Ubuntu is still much better than Windows.

@guyinpv said in Asus has really gone down hill:

I've been choosing MSI more and more.

My MSI
FM2-A85XA-G43
has lasted for quite some time now, I reckon I got this at 2013-2014, and constant daily use, and it is pretty neat, no sign of issues and even if I sell this PC I still think it will last a few more years without any issues.

The thing with MSI though, is that I wish there audio component in the motherboard were better.

@JaredBusch I also didn't mind about zerto at the time because my resellers (asked a couple) offered really high prices - but don't remember the specific amount.

@JaredBusch said in Anyone put Korora/Fedora on an Inspiron 2 in 1:

Well I had to buy the Inspiron, because it was in stock and available now. My MBP officially has no reliable wifi.

That sucks, on two counts!