@DustinB3403 said in Remote office - Basic Wireless Needs:

@JaredBusch said in Remote office - Basic Wireless Needs:

@DustinB3403 said in Remote office - Basic Wireless Needs:

@JaredBusch any serious reason why when the remote site is connected by a point to point vpn?

Same LAN, just different segment.

Run it on your XS then. I read that the first time that you had no virtualization in order to spin up a controller on an Ubuntu instance.

Ah, sorry, just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. Yeah I can run it locally.

Yes, you can run it locally. I do. I manage my two sites over the VPN. I could just as easily pay $5/month to vultr and setup a VPS for it and have it on the internet.

Once you get it running, you'll need/want to setup a DNS record for unifi pointing to that controller. This will allow Unifi devices to find your controller at layer 3.

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in What do you think about Windows Server Containers ? and are you using them ?:

@scottalanmiller

So what do you use instead of Active Directory and pushing/installing msi files remotely on end users?

You can use AD without Windows, we don't but you can. And you can do GPO without Windows, we don't but you can. Neither of those are Windows solutions. They are general ones.

You can replace Group Policy with scripts easily. And you can replace them even better with modern DevOps tools. We are moving to that, so much more powerful than anything that Microsoft offers for managing Windows machines.

Active Directory is not popular like it once was. The idea that remote access to everyone's machines is universally needed is fading away. Lots of places still need that, but a lot (like us) have realized that there is no need there. It's all marketing. It's an SMB thing to believe that AD is always needed and that we must always be able to log into everyone's machines in that manner. There are two thing we don't worry about: full control of end user machines and shared authentication. They just aren't things that are very useful. If they were, we would use Azure AD instead, which is free and does that without the limitations of AD.

@fuznutz04 said in Expanding disks on Ubuntu on XenServer for Plex:

@Romo Bingo! That did the trick. Thanks!

Great, glad it solved your issue.

@wirestyle22 said in laptop tracking / theft recovery:

@Mike-Davis said in laptop tracking / theft recovery:

It looks like someone will be sitting through a Meraki demo to see if it's free for the first 100. That client only has 20 company owned mobile devices, so that would work.

That's only for the free AP

Yup, which you don't want / need the AP. You just need the MDM, not the hardware.

They announced today that Nylas N1 is free now.

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

@travisdh1 said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Block Device Full How - Extend Partition:

I'm late to the party. But the root is HUGE for Linux. We normally use 12GB. 20GB is the largest I would use. Why are you extending that? What's the goal in having the root be so large?

Whoever first set it up (it wasn't @DustinB3403), just dropped everything onto the root partition. Against every best practice ever written/known for Unix/Linux.

Still, that doesn't create a need for expanding the root in most cases.

If I would have known this before helping to fix a broken system... hindsight sadly.

@JaredBusch said in Storage Provisioning For a Single Hyper-V Server Setup:

@scottalanmiller said in Storage Provisioning For a Single Hyper-V Server Setup:

@dr.funkenstein said in Storage Provisioning For a Single Hyper-V Server Setup:

I installed Hyper-V Core, and I'm facing a though time configuring... The server is at a remote location, and connect to the remote network via VPN, and am trying to use tools like Server Manager, Hyper-V manager, and even 5nine.. Server Manager itself works fine, but when I launch tools (such a Computer Management) from within Server Manager, I get random access denied messages .. Even after adding it as a Trusted host

Why are you doing things over a VPN? Stop doing that, that's likely your problem.

Even better, this sounds like a MSP office he is working from, so they probably have all these VPN connections to various clients open.

That's super scary, MSPs using VPNs is how malware is going to suddenly take over the world. Cross contamination all over the place.

@DustinB3403 said in what windows server should I choose for Active directory?:

@msff-amman-Itofficer Now don't get me wrong, I understand not wanting to have to purchase new CALs because those can be expensive, but then I guess the question is; Why are you using Windows at all if you can't afford to keep current on a regularl refresh window?

I can hear my voice echoing in many of these threads, even when I am not around 🙂

It is a free wifi at an indoor soccer field facility.

@scottalanmiller said in PV or HVM for new VMs in XS?:

HVM is the current recommendation. This is going to change again soon when some new PV driver advances from the HVM side get back ported to the pure PV side. So eventually we expect PV to take the lead again as it is a more solid design. The biggest thing is that the HVM side uses hardware assist but PV is pure software. PV is getting hardware assist added to it and when it does it is expected to be basically container level speeds.

Agree, PV/containerization is going to be the next BIG thing: http://thenewstack.io/hypervisors-container-era/ .

@aaronstuder said in Forget Ubuntu, now OpenSuse Linux comes to Windows 10:

Why would I want to do this? I see no point?

There is none in the way that they did it. The way that they promote it, it would be awesome. But they approach that they took makes it a joke.

Samsung is definitely not the company that it used to be. I don't see it turning around for a long time yet.

@shybrsky said in WSO2EMM Failed to install:

@scottalanmiller said in WSO2EMM Failed to install:

How much memory do you have for the system? WSO2EMM requires 2GB of RAM for the product itself that's most of the memory of a normal 32bit system for Windows. It is probably that no one is testing this product on 32bit Windows at all.

I'd move to running this on Linux, of course, but it you want to stay where you are...

We need some info:

What JDK are you running? What are your hardware specs? What OS and version are you running?

We might be able to adjust the heap to fix this, but we need all of the details.

oh, i c

Do you have that info?

What OS? What SQL Server version? What is the error in the logs?

Netwrix has a lot of AD tools, some free, some paid. I haven't used them myself, but I've heard good things about them.

Huh - MS finally made a single ISO solution - FINALLY!!!

@JaredBusch Thank you

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Mobile Cannot reinstall Skype Preview:

add some tags to the post to make it easier to find in the future.

I thought I did. Must have fallen off. I should use better sticky tape

Former EqualLogic customer quite happy with Nimble the past couple of years...

It functions as storage for vSphere 5.5 and Essentials clusters plus virtualized storage for a few physical servers.