@Murtlap We'd all agree with you on the Linux isn't any more secure just because it's Linux point! Hopefully we'll have the video from my speech at MangoCon available soon. If not, you can always look at my slide deck.

@StuartJordan said in My First Server: Build Basics:

Good post Scott and very relevant.

Thank you, sir. 🙂

@Ambarishrh said in Anyone tried Sync?:

@Reid-Cooper said in Anyone tried Sync?:

That's interesting. More and more things are moving to a model like that, the zero knowledge thing, but people are used to companies have that knowledge and it will cause a lot of problems.

1Password does the same thing actually, if you forget the master password, its gone. Only thing is when you introduce dropbox for password sync, it defeats the purpose.

I've never looked at 1Password, how does dropbox sync defeat the purpose?

LastPass works similar in that the LP doesn't have the ability to reset your password. One thing they do setup is a one time password in the first PC you install LP on. Using that computer you could then unlock your account and reset your password, one time. You can enable this one time password on each computer you install LP on if you want more recovery options.

Additionally, you can create a OneTime Password list that you could store securely and use to regain access if you forgot your password.

@dafyre said in How to handle this:

@art_of_shred said in How to handle this:

@Dashrender said in How to handle this:

I'm with Scott - stop having in person meetings with that person. Do it all through email. At the very least, write up a detailed email after the conversation, and have him agree to it through email before presenting it to the boss.

Then send the email chain to the boss on the way to the meeting.

Nothing beats a paper trail.

Except paper shredder... 👼

Figurative expression... digital "paper".

@Dashrender said in What would you use to replace WSUS from SBS:

@Shuey said in What would you use to replace WSUS from SBS:

@JaredBusch said in What would you use to replace WSUS from SBS:

@DustinB3403 said:

Ah....

Sorry for the confusion then. Do they have the resources to run another WSUS server and proper licensing? It really is quite a simple solution.

PDQ Deply has options for 3rd party app updates etc, but requires annual renewal.

Oh, I can easily setup WSUS on one of their existing VMs. Just not really sure I want to with the size overhead for this many users.

Hey Jared, sorry if I sound a little lost, but what is the overhead you're referring to? You pretty much only have two options: Deploy a WSUS server and use a GPO (or regedit) to make the workstations talk to it, or you can manually install updates once per month (or per quarter). I would think you could easily deploy a very small WSUS server (either on 2008 or 2012) using WID and about a 60-80gb hard drive. You could even make it one of the guest VMs.

When I was supporting Office 2010 and Office 2013, Windows 7 and 8.1 I needed more like 120 GB to hold all of the updates, and monthly had to do the cleanup or I would run out of disk space.

Obviously there will be some variables to consider. I was basing my recommendation off our current WSUS setup (over 200 workstations, and 30 servers) vs his environment (8 desktop, 2 laptops and some unnumbered servers). Up until recently when MS changed the way the update cycle works, I cleaned our db every month and we've been doing completely fine with an 80GB hard drive on the server.

The benefit is in having the directory that Elastix uses tied to a directory that you are using somewhere else.

I've got it installed, and backing itself up, but the first client system is throwing errors on me. Firewall ports are open and services running according to the guide here. It'll be this afternoon before I can get around to looking at the error logs.

I'd adjust the title if I could. . .

Nearly every topic, that turns personal . ..

But it is true. .

@Lakshmana said in GNU Root in Android:

@thwr This is the link i have checked for the installation but no luck
https://fossbytes.com/how-to-install-a-linux-on-android-phone-without-rooting/

That article doesn't mention about VNC or such, looks like you used multiple articles to get this done, and haven't shared any screenshots or errors apart from your statement that its not working. And not sure what are you trying to achieve by installing it on a low spec phone, other than just try to see how it works!

Just found another how-to http://www.techrepublic.com/article/use-gnuroot-to-install-a-gnulinux-distribution-on-your-android-device/ Check this and see if you can set it up.

@mareesvlpt said in Text in Vertical in CSS:

just try this...
add this css for that text element
transform: rotate(270deg)

Welcome to MangoLassi!

You could also use the Free Veeam Endpoint Backup, in latest version it also has CryptoLocker protection for USB attached external storage devices.

@FATeknollogee said in XenServer backup: XenToolBox:

@scottalanmiller I have zero experience with XTB & that's what prompted my initial question.

That's worth something. I'm just wondering what we should be looking for. What's the proposed value. Without knowing that, it's easy to overlook during testing.

Looks like def more than minimal.

[root@bna-cmty ~]# yum -y install nano wget firewalld yum-cron epel-release Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.rackspace.com * epel: mirror.steadfast.net * extras: centos.mirrors.tds.net * updates: cosmos.illinois.edu Package nano-2.3.1-10.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package wget-1.14-10.el7_0.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package firewalld-0.3.9-14.el7.noarch already installed and latest version Package epel-release-7-8.noarch already installed and latest version Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package yum-cron.noarch 0:3.4.3-132.el7.centos.0.1 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution

Not going to bother making a comparison, just noting that nano and wget are not part of a minimal install. Neither is epel, but firewalld actually is back in the minimal package if you go look at the monthly releases instead of the last "release" which was 1511.

@coliver said in Zimbra and ActiveSync:

I think because active sync requires a license from Microsoft they were never able to include it in the community version.

That's what I have always been led to believe.

@Romo said in Sanity check - DNS Filtering on WAN:

Of course technical users if truly motivated will bypass the solution tunneling through 80 or 443.

technical.... or anyone who takes the time to ask someone technical.

@Dashrender said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

@JaredBusch said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

Correct you do have QoS. It is on the VLAN, that contains the voice devices.

So the following is an incorrect assumption.

@scottalanmiller said in Time to gut the network - thoughts?:

You might want to LEAD with.... since we discovered that QoS was not set up properly and has never been a problem we can assume that QoS and ensuring call quality cannot be the reason.

Let them come up with a reason if you head that off at the pass.

No, it's correct. They didn't do their jobs properly. They neither did the sensible, cost effective thing for the business, which would have been to not have a VLAN at all. Nor did they properly do QoS for your VoIP traffic.

So no matter what, they didn't set up QoS correctly for you.

@scottalanmiller said in When management uses IT to solve people problems:

@Dashrender said in When management uses IT to solve people problems:

@scottalanmiller said in When management uses IT to solve people problems:

I say this constantly. So often IT seems to be used (or feels like it should be) acting as some kind of weird HR department that works by disabling functionality rather than addressing employee problems. And when you ask why IT doesn't do what HR should do, they don't have the authority. When asked why HR doesn't fix the problem, we are told that HR doesn't care (which means that management doesn't care.) Which makes me wonder... why does IT care when the business does not?

But IT doesn't care, in these case IT's just doing what management told them to do.

Actually, most of the time when I see this, IT cares way, way too much. There are times when it is just foolish management, but very rarely do I actually see that without IT at least encouraging it if not doing it unilaterally.

OK I'll admit I used to be guilty of that, but much less so these days.

@BRRABill said in Phone Photography - 4:3 Vs. 16:9 and the Dreaded Vertical Position:

@scottalanmiller said

It's amazing how many good photos are ruined by this. It makes so many things unwatchable. Videos are so much worse than photos. Photos you can excuse sometimes, there are times that you can do that. But not with videos, at no time is vertical video okay.

I'm confused by your statement in the context of this thread.

Are you saying you are OK with the quality hit to keep it in 16:9?

No, I'm talking about the resulting pictures. If there is a phone problem that it is not doing 16:9 well, do 4:3 and crop it if you want to display it.