@scottalanmiller said in Final Call ... XenServer Boot Media:

I added sparse files and lastlog to the SAM Linux guide so that I remember to cover them in a upcoming installment.

You are going to have to make a chapter called BRRABill Questions/Requests.

@AlyRagab said in Using Rsync to Replicate Elastix 2:

all passwords are matched

And you've tested them with the MySQL client, for example?

@Breffni-Potter This. It's a transient data store and is not meant to be used in the way you are attempting to use it. It is more for convenience then anything else. I don't think it migrates within Exchange Online unless they are using the Outlook Web App.

If the contacts and info are important have the users save them as contacts to a shared resource.

@Danp said in So this might be a NodeBB bug but:

What happens if you click it?

👿

Try it.

Very cool, let's make something!

@IRJ said in Pre-Baked LAMP server with AD Authentication in Apache:

@JaredBusch said in Pre-Baked LAMP server with AD Authentication in Apache:

@IRJ said in Pre-Baked LAMP server with AD Authentication in Apache:

This might help...

www.randomtechtips.com/validate-domain-authentication-test-ad-password-using-powershell/

He wants a LAMP stack based website to authenticate to AD.

It seems like that powershell script will accomplish the same task even though it is a different route.

But won't run on the desired platform.

@Dashrender said in XenServer Live Adjust capacity of drive that is shared:

Would he really need to reboot if he's adding another 'disk' copying data the removing the old disk?

Depends on the guest OS and applications using said space.

LOL not surprised by this at all! MS seems to be making their non top of the line (read most expensive) have a lot of caveats, such as GPOs that only work for Enterprise Windows, not Pro.

So nothing worked when you powered down the physical server?

What IP are the PCs using for DNS?
What IP is the VM Domain Controller using for DNS?

If the PCs are using the turned off server as their primary DNS, they may not ever flip to the secondary (which is hopefully your VM DC)
If the VM DC is not pointing to either 127.0.0.1 or it's own IP for the primary (and we assume there are no other DNS servers on this network for this domain) that would also make everything stop working.

Central logging offers a lot of potential. Lots of reasons for it but just some...

Really easy to produce central reports to look for issues across the entire estate, not just server by server. Easy to give log access to people who are not system admins. Much more secure, you can look at logs without access to the systems themselves. Works on systems that don't even have the ability to log into (like Windows Nano and DevOps systems.) Encourages good tooling, like nice graphical interfaces, reports, etc. Allows for correlation between systems, apps, etc. Compare a single app on many servers at once, etc. Protects logs in case of system failure Stores logs in a permanent way for ephemeral devices. Increases the reliability of alerting. Increases options for alerting. Allows files to be backed up under a central policy.

So I was able to make another array, and was also able to make an SR on that array. It's still strange that I'm not able to use thin provisioning by default on install, but for now, it's working.

@travisdh1 said in Thoughts on EdgeMax Pro 8:

@JaredBusch said in Thoughts on EdgeMax Pro 8:

@travisdh1 said in Thoughts on EdgeMax Pro 8:

@Joel said in Thoughts on EdgeMax Pro 8:

Even if the 6 offices are totally independent? We have a 200mb line coming in so is it not fair to allocate each port 32mb each? Or do you think I should just leave it defaulted but prioritise QOS for voip?

Correct.

Does someone have any examples of actual QOS rules for the EdgeRouterX series? I've got the basic "Download = 700kbps, Upload=300kbps" for our connections, but that's it so far.

Since version 1.8 or maybe 1.7 even, they added new a QoS process outside of the original traffic shaping stuff.

fq_codel is the new standard and is in the GUI.

Yeah, when I looked around everything I found was still command line based.

Well, as you can see from that screenshot, i have not bothered to update mine to fq_codel either...

@scottalanmiller said in Google Chrome and ScreenConnect:

@gjacobse said in Google Chrome and ScreenConnect:

@JaredBusch said in Google Chrome and ScreenConnect:

I use chrome all day everyday. Problem is yours.

I wonder if it's the Win10 build and subsequent Win 10AU.

Possible but I suspect that Jared is on Win 10.

Windows 10 with AU even.
0_1473169810893_upload-6c80d9da-7390-48dc-b1a1-45bf2cf1986f

Apparently I figured out my issue with the dual wan traffic shaping. Had to turn on stickiness.... just goes to show you how little I've dealt with networking.

@BBigford said in Some MS Office Apps Unable to Sync to Office 365:

I've saw this before. Open up Credential Manager and delete anything related to Office. Don't just edit and verify, actually delete it. When you sign in again, it'll store a new copy. Happens sometimes with password changes or a bad sync between password changes.

Can find it in Control Panel or just search for it.

Hence why Apple products are working OK... They don't have Credential Manager. Same thing happens with Keychain on Apple PCs sometimes. But the mobile devices obviously don't have Keychain.

Apple products are NOT working okay, they are half working.

@scottalanmiller said in Address Selection for New Networks:

Don't use /24. No reason whatsoever to limit like that. Use /23 and get 500+ devices for each customer. You won't be able to change this later without being a big pain because you are making address ranges next to each other.

I use a 23 for a main office, but almost all SMB that I see will not come close to filling up a /24 anyway.

If you properly setup everything as DHCP with reservations for the important things, you will only have a few key systems that need to be manually changed when you need to update your scope.

Granted it is easier if you think you will ever potentially need to expand in the near term to start with a /23.

@scottalanmiller said in Xen Orchestra / Metadata backup?:

Citrix says to not back up the host and it appears that megadata is stored on the SR. Has anyone attempted to restore without the metadata backup to see what would come up as missing? Having done something basically like this, I thought that I got all of the data that you would be looking for (minus logs.)

It restores the VDIs, but doesn't associate them with VMs. Nor does it create VMs.

So you just have a bunch of VDIs.

@RobLewisss said in Linux Iptables Firewall Automation:

@JulianJulian Thanks mate! I just downloaded the agent. I'll let you guys know how it works.

I also downloaded the agent to one of my Linux systems. It was very quick and simple.

The cloud interface picked up the installed agent imediately and I was able to manage it right there.

There are different groups that you can place each agent for different rules.

Definitely worth testing. Up to 5 servers for free!

@JaredBusch said in OpenOffice Contemplates Shutdown Amid Volunteer Drought:

@scottalanmiller said in OpenOffice Contemplates Shutdown Amid Volunteer Drought:

Makes sense. It has been nearly insane that it kept going in the light of LibreOffice all of this time. They should have merged back in long ago. We don't need those two existing side by side, it just hurts the ecosystem.

Is merged back in the right term since Libre is the fork and Open is the original?

But yeah, I agree that there is jut not enough active development for both it seems.

That's always a tough one when the original people do the forking. The code is identical at the time of the split, so one is not more original than the other (unlike cloning an animal) and moving forward the only aspects that make one the original and one the fork is the name and the team. In the case of OO or NC, the original team went with the fork, making it convoluted which is now the original. The original name, OO, went one way and the team went another.

Or, to make it more confusing, if the team makes the "new project", like in this case, one could make the case that OO is the fork of LO, even though it is newer, because ideologically the original project, momentum, team and code changed name to LibreOffice.

Code is a weird thing to think of as one being original and one not.