@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

@JaredBusch said in Exporting mailboxes and archives from Office 365 without using Outlook.:

I have this saved as powershell script named CreatePST.ps1 in C:\Scripts on the Exchange server.

# To execute script, you must open an exchange powershell window, elevated permissions not required. # First you must be in the scripts directory. # cd \scripts # Then execute the powershell script with 3 parameters. # ./CreatePST.ps1 >First Name< >Last Name< >email alias< # ./CreatePST.ps1 Jared Busch jbusch # The export path is not a variable as we need to know that it is writable by the system. param ( [string]$FirstName = $(throw "-FirstName is required."), [string]$LastName = $(throw "-LastName is required."), [string]$alias = $(throw "-alias is required.") ) New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox "$alias" -FilePath "\\server\share\PSTExports\$FirstName.$LastName.pst" Write-Host "" Write-Host "To check status, run: Get-MailboxExportRequest | Get-MailboxExportRequestStatistics"

to my knowledge, there is no comparable feature for Office 365.

Most people recommend you use Outlook.

This is a killer script though. I was on the verge of setting up a local exchange server, migrating mailboxes in hybrid mode to the local install and running this script from there.

@JaredBusch said in FreePBX extension oddity:

@art_of_shred you need to have the process started over.

Original phone on original port and verify behavior.

Original phone on new port and verify behavior.

We had the original phone on the original port that was malfunctioning as described in the OP. We replaced the phone and got the same result. The new phone, which had the same exact behavior as the original (so it's not the phone) was moved to another port and had the same issue plus the lack of audio on the other end of a call.

@StrongBad said in The Agony and Ecstasy of RAID:

Is this a #tbt ?

Sure feels that way.

@JaredBusch But that's ok as you can simply farm your work out to contractors. 😄

Screenly OSE really seems like what we need. The fact that we don't have to spend a ton of money on hardware is a plus in my opinion.

https://www.screenly.io/ose/

Youtube Video

@scottalanmiller said in What do you think, did we do this right?:

Can you ever hide the bad stuff from the bad guys? Bad guys will just run the product and get any announcement that is sent out no matter what. That's a given. But the most important thing is letting good admins know what to do, bad admins that don't update - that's their decision and risk.

Well, not fully of course, it is all open source. But the barrier to getting at the problem is a fair bit higher when there are hundreds of changes and some might or might not have a security impact vs you have 5 changes and you KNOW they impact security. It won't stop the NSA but might stop a script kiddie and at least give people more time to update.

I'm not saying it is a magic bullet, but it is widely considered security best practice to do it this way 😉

Anyway, I'm hoping for automated minor updates to solve this in a more elegant way. We've decreased the target on the back of Nextcloud users significantly with our security scan - only 3% outdated systems is a quite small thing to put time and effort in if you're looking to do something like ransomware.

I know this is an older topic, but we're migrating to O365 Business Essentials tomorrow, which includes access to Microsoft Planner. I'm thinking there are at least a few folks here who will benefit from it but would love to hear how people are using it (if anyone here has been).