The Synology email server does look like it is moderately nice. If you have a good service, like The Email Laundry, handling your external connections, running your email server internally isn't so bad. I have no experience with the Synology for email handling, but it looks like it might work just fine.

Templates are used for the most generic of tasks.

Like how to setup Exchange emails on an iPhone. A personalised top and tail and then step by step instructions throughout.

Anything not 100% repeatable is custom.

I documented in another post so that we can find the actual answer files. I had to pull them out of the original script and check a bit to make sure that they do what we are looking for. Now to work on integrating them into Salt so that an install can be properly automated in that manner.

What kind of voice changer? Can you give an example of one?

Id MUCH rather community.spiceworks.com point to ML instead to take over. They can keep their software.

Use the clear-dnsservecache cmdlet

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/powershell/windows/dns-server/clear-dnsservercache

@FATeknollogee said in VPS/hosting: Vultr-like speeds + easy-cPanel management:

@scottalanmiller said in VPS/hosting: Vultr-like speeds + easy-cPanel management:

CloudWays ? They literally let you choose Vultr as the host and I'm actually testing them right now.

How is the testing coming along?

Looks really nice. Not sure that it meets our needs well, though. It covers the pieces that we can handle easily but doesn't address the annoying pieces. Looks like a good product though.

@Tim_G said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

@travisdh1 said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

@Tim_G said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

@scottalanmiller said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

@Tim_G said in Opinions on MD1000 for backup location:

Oh, we need block level access. So it has to be DAS. Well, iSCSI could work, but I don't want to go that route for this specific setup.

Synology definitely does block. So does SAM-SD. And SAM-SD can obviously do FC. Any reason you are ruling out iSCSI but not ruling out "running on laughable hardware"?

I'm wanting to test something like this (except not clustered):

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn891438(v=sc.12).aspx#Overview

Do you not have a VM host you could just add local storage to test?

You need the full version of Windows Server to install the Data Deduplicaiton feature. I was wanting to test everything on a test server running Hyper-V Server 2016.

I do have a Datacenter host that I am working on a schedule to upgrade from Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter to Windows Server 2016 Datacenter. It's a big move, so it won't happen reasonably soon.

You know you can install anything you want for 6 months as a trial.
Microsoft has offered this for pretty much ever.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2016

@bigbear said in RS Mail vs Office 365:

Honestly I can't believe how far Zoho has come since 2009 when I last used it. Now if they would only change the daycare looking logo of theirs. Their product interfaces are modern and attractive but their website product icons and logo are very off-putting.

That's very true. They make it very hard to take them seriously. It doesn't give the impression that it is meant for business use.

@Texkonc said in Reboot your servers:

@scottalanmiller said in Reboot your servers:

@Texkonc said in Reboot your servers:

At work: every Friday for Workstations, if it is needed, and Every Sunday for Servers if it is needed.
Home: Autoreboot after they are installed on my laptop, cause I dont care, most my crap is web based. Home Lab: Every Sunday at 11AM.
My 1 rule, don't suck at patching.

What does "if it is needed" mean?

When patches are released, because you very well know, patching is the last thing customers think about. Although this is one thing I would like to audit as one of my other projects. New guy, fresh set of eyes.

Why not call "updating for updating's sake" "needed" and then update every week 🙂

Working now, must have been a blip.

@Minion-Queen I cant give you any good reason why we wont use Google Apps. I know I would get a lot of flack over it.

I have a copy of SCO Unix. Very niche. Full box and license. Found it when i was clearing out the IT attic at work. I havent seen a Solaris box since 2010.

Take a look at Windows Disk Management. Maybe the Disk needs to be assigned a drive letter.

@nagendra said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):

Need some more help

i need to change the attachment size to 2 MB
change the mailbox storage to new Drive
can we allow particular user to send emails to outside network ??
like block for everyone and allow to a group of users

This was already forked to a new thread.

@scottalanmiller said in How a Quantum Computer Works:

Well duh, it just thinks it is possible it can work, and thus it does.

The funny thing is most of the servers I've created never go over the 2TB cap so I've never had to do this