If you have Azure AD Connect in place, when you log in to o365 it will tell you "Synced with Active Directory" in the Sync column of your User list.

I did put some text pattern matches on a transport rule
"IT Professional"
"IT Professionals' list"
IT Staffing
"Contracted Program*"
"Telecom user*"
"Target Industry:" << this one is very common in the 'buy user lists/dbs for your company'
"Dear Sir/Madam"
^^ that one actually is catching a email from a legit company that sends us invoices/PO, that phrase is actually auto-generated in every email. Annoying.

Phrases like this are common throughout most of these emails.

Seems to be working well so far.

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@scottalanmiller said

Did you not use available resources as there are thousands of posts on Spiceworks about this topic, more than any other topic. How did you manage to avoid the common knowledge around such a basic, and loudly discussed, topic? How is your knowledge outdated by nearly a decade?

Most of the world does not use Spiceworks.
A lot of IT admins choose not to engage in IT communities.
PPTP VPN on 2012 R2 server installs is acceptable to some.

Drops mic, walks away

A free and easy to setup VPN. Managed one at my last job.

You managed a PPTP? You should have replaced that one

it was 2012 R2, using AES256 and dropped the connection if 256 was not supported. I cranked the security settings way up. Job didnt want to pay for Cisco VPN licenses. Had to make use of what I could.

OpenVPN is free 🙂

Plus Server 2012R2 has both SSTP and L2TP/IPSEC built in.

Its been a year and trying to block it out, but I think I did use L2TP/IPSEC....That would make sense...
hmmmmm. Can't remember....

When you configured things like IKE, phase 1 and 2 and so on: IPsec

@fuznutz04 said in FreePBX, Qualify time, and "Unreachable" extensions:

The only option I saw under attack checks in the video is to disable UDP flood attacks.

That's it, disable that.

@Mike-Davis said in Ubnt ER - random quick disconnects RDP:

yes. published a remote app. Users need access to that from machines that may not be company owned. Put RDPguard in place to ban IPs of multiple failed login attempts.

If there is a VPN, then we presume that there is no UDP traffic. Most VPNs are TCP.

Awesome, glad I could help!

I wonder why he is getting this message when using a shortcut (.lnk file) to access a file on a network share? I don't get that when I use shortcut files to my network. Only when copying files from my NAS to my PC

Really early impressions of SparkleShare:

It is based on git, I truly did not know git could be used with anything other than text files.
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The host setup is a script that installs a git server , since it is git you could acually use gitlab, github or bitbucket as your server host.
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Windows client listed on the webpage (1.4) is not the newest version available even though it is the only version listed. Version 1.5
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Client tracks files added and deleted, as well as versions of certain file types.
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Versions of a docx file and ability to recover
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**Edit ( For some strange reason, the time of the versions of the files is not actually my current time. Screen captures where taken at around 19:00 and file versions show 17:50)

Tomorrow I'll setup another client to test the syncing process between clients 😃

I wonder, when you change preferences do those changes get applied once, or if the user is pre-existing on the system, are they ignored?

@scottalanmiller said in Excel Crashing:

@Dashrender said in Excel Crashing:

Also, nearly anyone can setup an Access created JetDB, but those same people probably have no clue how to transfer it into a SQLExpress

Pretty sure that it is just a check box when setting up your Access application.

I haven't created an Access created DB since Office 2007 or was it XP? I'm guessing that checkbox is new (to me).

@BBigford said in Hyper-V homework question:

@Kelly said in Hyper-V homework question:

I posted this on that other site, but it appears that you do the teaming inside of Hyper-V, and not in the host OS: http://www.serverwatch.com/server-tutorials/configuring-nic-teaming-for-virtual-machines-with-hyper-v-3.0.html.

As soon as the team is added, connectivity is lost. Can't even get as far as adding the adapter before connectivity is lost.

So... once you create the virtual switch in Hyper-V Manager Virtual Switch Manager, using the NIC Team you created on the Host OS, all connectivity is lost?

At that point, what do the event logs say? Is there some kind of weird MAC conflict? When you look at the connection status of the virtual switch in Control Panel -> Network Connections, what does it look like? Are you getting a 169 address? Is it all 0's? What's actually going on and what does Event Viewer say?

@jt1001001 said in ForeFront UAG trunks stopped working:

We are loking at replacing our ForeFron UAG for Skype for Business reverse Proxy with Kemp Load balancers; they provide a Sharepoint config guide:
https://support.kemptechnologies.com/hc/en-us/articles/203123539-SharePoint

They offer a free Load Balancer VM if you dont' need too much bandwidth:
http://freeloadbalancer.com/features/

I unfortunately am not part of the project team designing and implementing the Kemp solution so I can't tell you much about its capabilities YET

Thx for mentioning it. Unfortunately, we have some confidential (and up) data on our SharePoint. A third party reverse proxy might (in theory) copy the data using the users session. I'm not saying that Kemp is doing this, but on the other hand ... gov'd firmware on Cisco devices.

@IRJ depends on what you're looking to do. I have some just setup internally right now for auditing purposes only.

@Dashrender said in Free Windows Server DataCenter License with Purchase of SA of equal or greater value:

@IRJ said in Free Windows Server DataCenter License with Purchase of SA of equal or greater value:

I learned Hyper-V inside and out when I was studying for my MCSA 2012. I have given up on Hyper-V. Other Hypervisors are so much better and have less issues. I tried using Hyper-V for about a year, it just isn't as good as other products out there.

In what ways? and at what scale?

For starters the compatibility with non-Windows Machines suck.

DId NextCloud build for Nginx? I've not looked yet. The ownCloud code base was specifically Apache, I thought?

I'm building out a Starwind SAN for this. It's partially done. But I've been traveling.

@RamblingBiped said in Bandwidth Usage By Host:

I use iftop: http://www.ex-parrot.com/pdw/iftop/

@Romo said in Bandwidth Usage By Host:

I use iftop as well.

Oooh, so if I mirror the port connecting to our WAN and put the NIC in promiscuous mode, iftop should give me what I'm looking for?

@Reid-Cooper said in Why is Hyper-V More Confusing:

@Jstear said in Why is Hyper-V More Confusing:

I will mention that when I took Windows Server classes in college, we were using Windows Server 2008 R2 and installing the Hyper-V role. It wasn't until after college that I realized there was an actual free version called "Hyper-V Server".

Because.... College. 😉

Nah, I think that is pretty much the problem everyone has, and the root of a lot of this.