@scottalanmiller said in Anyone using Let's encrypt?:

@Tim_G you can make a one line script that updates LetsEncrypt through the manual method in a few seconds. Just throw it in crontab and you are all set.

I figured it would be something like that, but i have shared hosting, don't have room for a linux box, and don't want to turn my personal PC into a hypervisor.

Maybe in the future, but it cuttently fits my life much better to go startssl. Nothing against at all, in fact I preferred it.

@JaredBusch said in Not seeing traffic for O365 emails at 587, 993 and 995 ports on Firewall.:

@scottalanmiller said in Not seeing traffic for O365 emails at 587, 993 and 995 ports on Firewall.:

@openit said in Not seeing traffic for O365 emails at 587, 993 and 995 ports on Firewall.:

@scottalanmiller said in Not seeing traffic for O365 emails at 587, 993 and 995 ports on Firewall.:

@openit said in Not seeing traffic for O365 emails at 587, 993 and 995 ports on Firewall.:

@scottalanmiller said in Not seeing traffic for O365 emails at 587, 993 and 995 ports on Firewall.:

@openit said in Not seeing traffic for O365 emails at 587, 993 and 995 ports on Firewall.:

Ok, I understand, due to direct connection from Outlook with exchange, no port is being hit on Firewall. So only non-genuine emails going to be recognized at firewall.

Thanks.

Correct. Outlook has basically a private VPN back to the Exchange server over port 443 so no visible traffic of email on your network because there is none. That's better, so ANY SMTP traffic, on any port, is suspect.

Is that also means, if our ISP is blocking our email things due to Spam issue, it's not going to effect our O365 users (while they send emails through outlook client) ?

Outlook doesn't use SMTP or send email, it sends instructions to Exchange, which is totally different. No email protocols are involved.

Okay, so any email ports blocked by our ISP is not going to effect our O365 users.

Correct. You are not sending email in and out of your network, you are only looking at the email system remotely. There are no email protocols, no email traffic and no actual email moving across your network with the tools that you are using.

It has nothing to do with Office365 either. Outlook does not use email protocols for any thing on an exchange server. In house or otherwise.

Right, good point. This is all just general Exchange / Outlook protocol info, not related to a specific hosting service.

I deployed Office 2016 last summer, we have not had a problem like yours.

Are you sure people aren't printing to OneDrive by mistake and leaving the files around?

Look the owner of the files, perhaps you'll find a small few are creating them.

PPTP is like an invitation for unwanted guests. You just don't want to use it.

Use something like OpenVPN/SSTP (SSL based, single UDP/TCP port) or IPSec. There's even a non-Microsoft open source server available for SSTP (and many other protocols) at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN/.

@DustinB3403 said in Port - Dealing with the Not My Job attitudes in the workplace:

@Dashrender said in Port - Dealing with the Not My Job attitudes in the workplace:

That's a major problem, if you are not the one managing the contract, the limitations put on the M

Or the MSP may actually be worthless and not want to take on the responsibility. Egg on the face.

Regardless of my issues at current, the scenario is fictitious. Would you expect that the MSP work to fix the issue with any vendors involved, or that they say "not us". Even if the client is billed in the end, the communication chain should then clarify who is taking what onto their plate.

We don't have the scope, so we can't have expectation.

@NerdyDad said in Active Directory for 28+ Million Users?:

Okay, so what organization would have "28+ million authentic users"? Some giant conglomerate?

You're talking nearly 10% of America.

Apparently the 10% of Americans that moved out of the US with @scottalanmiller

@scottalanmiller said in Dell R720 vs R720xd:

@Danp said in Dell R720 vs R720xd:

@syko24 Absolutely no issues with buying an unit from that generation of Dell servers. Buy from a reputable seller who backs it up with a warranty and you shouldn't have any issues.

Check out xByte.

@ryan-from-xbyte

That's where it is from. It was one of those email offers xByte sends out every so often. The total price of the server is almost the cost of the drives alone from Dell. Can't really pass it up.

@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

@theOtherGuy said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

@Tim_G said in Data Backup solution for Linux servers:

You will need 4 licensing models for a typical mixed environment:

Free - VEB (because a lot of people do tend to use it with servers, although that's not what it was designed for, and you shouldn't)
Paid - B&R (for hypervisors - enterprises typically need this in a standard mixed environment)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Linux (needed for physical Linux servers that are not hypervisors)
Paid - Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows (needed for physical windows servers that are not hypervisors)

You, Sir, are making wrong statements 🙂

1.B&R - offers a Free version that lets you backup VMs.
2.Veeam Agent for Linux - has fully functional free version
3.Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows - not even released yet and will offer free version as well.

Okay... so then you'll be stuck with 4 separate free products... my point still remains the same. I think like 99% of all backup solutions have a free version. But at least with Unitrends (and many others), you'd only need a single free product. With Veeam, you'd need maybe 4 separate ones. Whether it's free or paid wasn't the point.

As a Veeam user, you may be right in that they are 4 different products. However, the VEB and agents all integrate with B&R. There is a caveat to this. You can monitor the VEB's in B&R, but cannot make any changes to the settings themselves. All you can do to the VEB's is just restrict who can make backups and who doesn't. You won't be able to make changes to frequency or times, etc.

This is the second time I applied a change and it did not apply. I went back into Group Policy in my post before this and noticed it had not applied my change again.

I reapplied it and it worked.

Not sure, and I'm not going to power up the old system to find out. New one is running fine. If I ever run in to a situation like that again, there are a lot more checks I would do.

OK, finally got that solved using this, and guess what the results are....

Failed the test.

Yay..... now lets see what Microsoft has to say about the results...

So, I'm upgrading to the latest version of Plex (free version as of now) and noticed that the new paid version ($5/month) now has a photo option, with mobile phone picture sync! https://www.plex.tv/features/photos/

Has anyone tried this yet? This would be my all in one media solution if it turns out to work well.

Just finishing our exchange 16 upgrade so.... not yet. But I will keep in touch.

@JaredBusch said in Ripping the bandaid off of the Sunk Cost Fallacy Issue:

@Dashrender I have been using this lately for small office main copier and / or workgroup copier in larger offices.

HP Laserjet Pro M477fdn All-in-One Color Printer, (CF378A)

$380 on Amazon.

Those look nice. I've had decent luck with HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 series, and now the Epson EcoTanks. The EcoTank refills are just amazingly inexpensive compared to anything else around except the other printer models you have to mod to add the tanks to.

@art_of_shred said in Thoughts on a Ubiquiti/Cisco comparo?:

This is just a project. What's the line? "Not my circus, not my monkeys"?

I think it goes "not my circus, not my Sonicwall".

xentop and uptime on one of my hosts. Looks like i need to do some xs updates this weekend, been over 2 months.

0_1484852489255_upload-c46b6e52-8494-4d28-81de-9e9dace25b5d

0_1484852584774_upload-3d407002-ac6a-4860-86a8-02380b448075

Is this purely a failed certificate issue? I mean that would make sense, but I've not done a lot with Exchange (and O365) besides dick-around with the settings as this organization has some major config issues.

@wirestyle22 said in Deleting unneeded partition in windows 10:

I have yet to run into something that gparted couldn't kill

Yeah, pretty much parted can do anything.

@scottalanmiller said in What Happens to Email After You Hit Send:

They mention the old HELO command, but EHLO is what is used in most systems today.

They did mention EHLO, but only a time or two.