As for using it as a backup repo for XS, you wouldn't backup any other server to it's self.

Get a separate XS host and create a linux server on it which has the storage space you need. Or a reasonable NAS.

It's not a good idea to backup to the same target you are running your live systems on.

@RojoLoco something something motion in the ocean

@pchiodo said in Rocket Chat on Ubuntu - Help please:

OK, after dealing with real work issues, I was able to get back to this. Installed per Scott's instructions and everything is working as expected.

Thanks for the help! I'm sure I'll need more as I delve into the Linux world.

Awesome. Be sure to check out this starting point for Linux:

https://mangolassi.it/topic/7825/sam-learning-linux-system-administration/

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Outage affected Federated Domains:

@DustinB3403 said in Microsoft Outage affected Federated Domains:

So the way ADFS works (here) is that when a client attempts to access say, email, they hit microsoft, which forwards the request to our exchange server to confirm the user details, and then our server redirects the request back to microsoft to access email.

This is a long handshake. Just have autodiscover setup and configured that Microsoft is syncing our details from exchange, and allowing people to authenticate against what microsoft has for email is way "cleaner".

And way less of a headache (like the past 4 days)

I suppose I see what you're saying AD sync can give you this. So what other features of ADFS is @coliver getting that AD sync doesn't provide?

I honestly have no clue what features are included. I haven't done anything (besides the work over these past 4 days) to try and find what was broke.

I'm not an exchange guy.

@Dashrender said in Announcing the Death of RAID:

@scottalanmiller said in Announcing the Death of RAID:

What you are thinking of is my recommendation for supported drives that are part of the system itself if you are going for a warranty supported system like from Dell or HPE. Bringing your own drives would push you to vendors like SuperMicro where you can mix and match for the best performance, cost and features.

I want to ask why we can't/shouldn't use consumer class drives in a Dell or HPE server, but I think the answer might be - because if you're paying for that level of support, why are you not going all in?

Is that right?

i.e. if you want to run your own performance/cost factors, you're better off starting with a SuperMicro, is that what you're saying?

Yes. That's what I mean.

@coliver said in CentOS can be stupid as well.:

I find a good yum clean all tends to fix these types of errors.

Yep. I mostly just wanted to point out that even the OS myself and @scottalanmiller are always recommending can do dumb things from time to time as well.

@NetworkNerd said in Home Lab, Multiple Servers on Repurposed Hardware- Feasible?:

If you had another station (whether laptop or desktop) or maybe a very small VM on what will be your host, consider installing Starwind's virtual SAN (just on the one box). It's a way to get yourself some experience with how VMware or another hypervisor interacts with iSCSI storage. I've used it in a lab before, and it worked great.

We have that on top of the Scale cluster in the lab. Starwind SAN on top of the HC3 works great.

@scottalanmiller said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@DustinB3403 said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@scottalanmiller said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

@DustinB3403 said in Everyone is not a "Security Group":

My argument was in regards to the people I work around and their broken mindset of "everyone needs access" or "just add the everyone group".

My OP I thought was very clear in that I was ranting a bit. But ok...

Well, in those cases, who should be blocked from access, do you feel?

By default I would say "not everyone".

Allow even an existing security group. But the "everyone" security group is not providing any security.

Might as well allow anonymous access.

Everyone does mean anonymous. This might just be a language thing. Someone outside of IT should not be aware of the "everyone" group. If they are saying "everyone" they should not be meaning that group, they probably just mean "Domain Users."

Everyone does not include anonymous. It is just about everything up to that point including guest and service accounts: https://blog.varonis.com/the-difference-between-everyone-and-authenticated-users/.

@scottalanmiller said in Wordpress support troubles:

@RojoLoco said in Wordpress support troubles:

@scottalanmiller said in Wordpress support troubles:

@RojoLoco said in Wordpress support troubles:

@scottalanmiller said in Wordpress support troubles:

Did you manage to get anywhere yet on this?

I finally got the support form to work on my PC at home, so he filled it out and sent it. Hopefully it is sorted now. I guess I have to help clean out his PC at some point.

LOL, sounds like he might be the source of many issues in the future.

I saw a couple of posts on their support forum referencing similar issues. Seems like it might be widespread.

Might be browser dependent or something like that.

He couldn't get it to work in chrome or FF, I was able to get it to open in FF correctly. I think it is something else on his computer.

My last restore will finish sometime tomorrow... it'll burn down soon or later, better make sure you can get back!

@RojoLoco said in One program to RIP them all: CD to NAS:

@RojoLoco said in One program to RIP them all: CD to NAS:

@Dashrender said in One program to RIP them all: CD to NAS:

@RojoLoco said in One program to RIP them all: CD to NAS:

@Dashrender said in One program to RIP them all: CD to NAS:

@RojoLoco said in One program to RIP them all: CD to NAS:

You should be ripping everything to a good format instead of mp3.... FLAC and AAC give similar file sizes and far better audio quality.

and far fewer things that can play them.

VLC has always been able to play both those formats. Not sure why people use other media players.

kinda hard to use VLC in my car, unless they have an Android version that supports FLAC? Honestly, no clue if they do, I've never looked - I rarely listen to music I primarily listen to podcasts.

VLC exists on android, so I'm sure that FLAC support is either built in or available to add on. Checking on my phone now...

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

"VLC for Android is a full audio player, with a complete database, an equalizer and filters, playing all weird audio formats."

Nice..

I have been hosting my own server for months and then I found something out really cool today. If you have CPanel access on your website you can install it one click on your web sever 🙂

I ended up using this guide:

https://www.rootusers.com/how-to-increase-the-size-of-a-linux-lvm-by-expanding-the-virtual-machine-disk/

If you're using Windows 10 on the end points, this article would be good for you.

http://www.techproresearch.com/article/windows-update-for-business-a-hands-on-look-at-how-to-take-control/

@Dashrender said in 1 displayport 2 monitors:

Those other two look like Display Port, but that could be the angle, so I suppose they could be HDMI.

I agree - but they are display ports,.. the left side of the connecter / and bracket are cut at a 45deg,.. but the right side is not. But hey - don't listen to me,.. I was confused as to what the DVI port was.

That moment when you have spent 3 hours waiting (5 min here and there) and then realize you are in the WRONG DNS Management Page....

smh

Get the larger one. Think about wear leveling in hardware (which often does not work or simply does not exist except in high-end products) or in software using specialized filesystems like YAFFS and others.

Try to keep your partitions small if you plan to create images.

@JaredBusch Awesome, just found it.

No, those pics are from SuperDoctor 5, It's a 1:1 free Server management tool https://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/SMS_SD5.cfm

@Sparkum said in Any Jet Reports guru's here?:

@FiyaFly
Hey

Ya one of the largest points of re-doing everything is to get it to a point where we can schedule it (we currently run it 2 times a week and then enter some information)

So we are also trying to get all the cells that we would manually add information to populate.

There are alot of one off reports (using this report) that people want, for example we currently run it on Monday and Thursday, but people also want then different time frames etc so while scheduling it eliminates the time problem it only really half eliminates it.

I was actually able to make a few changes and got the report down to 27 minutes, so I'm back on track for optimizing the report!

Thanks

Sweet! What changes did you make?