@wirestyle22 said in $200 firewall:

Also purchasing a bunch of their switches as we are on 10/100 switches currently.

I suspect that people will notice the improvement pretty quickly.

@Dashrender said in Proper way to handle a remote user for Quickbooks login:

If you're asking if you can host a Win 7 (though why not Win 10?) VM on XenServer - yes you can. Now the question is, what licensing do you need?

If you have Software Assurance for the laptop you gave the CFO, then you need nothing more. If not, you'll need a VDI license for her, something like $125/year.

Yes, going that path takes you down the dark road of one off VDI.

@Sparkum said in Zabbix Server Installation Scripts:

@JaredBusch

Ah gotcha, okay I was actually following those instructions, as well as ones from DO, as well as from everywhere and anywhere.

Multiple times I got to different places, I was able to stand it up a few times, was even graphing itself once, but for the life of me could not get communication from my agents to the server, ports 10050 and 10051 showed open in uh...I think it was ufw? but I couldnt telnet into them, so not sure if it was my install or what was up.

Here you go.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/10373/install-zabbix-on-centos-7

@Dashrender said in reasons to have a local DC in a remote office?:

@JaredBusch said in reasons to have a local DC in a remote office?:

@Dashrender said in reasons to have a local DC in a remote office?:

@scottalanmiller said in reasons to have a local DC in a remote office?:

@Mike-Davis said in reasons to have a local DC in a remote office?:

@Dashrender I forgot about that. I guess if the DC did go down, I could talk someone in to changing the DNS settings on their computer so that screen connect would work, log in to the ER and change DNS if we thought the VPN was going to be down for any length of time. (or just enable SSH on the ER from the outside interface.)

Why not have local DNS point to the DC, but the secondary point across the VPN? No need to change anything.

He mentioned that Google was his tertiary DNS entry is Google. blips causing DNS flipping to your other entries seem to be common (Not like every day common, but common enough to be a problem). My not stated suggestion is that google should be removed from the line up.

I have dhcp hand out primary DNS as the main office DC. Secondary is the local ERL.

In the ERL I again set dns1 as the main DC but secondary as Google.

I also set static host mapping in the ERL for the local domain just in case.

Interesting, manual, but definitely a solution. And even if the ERL is going to Google for DNS, the internal mappings solves the local problem, I assume.

It was the least amount of work I could come up with and still have users with internet access when the VPN was down.

@travisdh1 said in SCADA-like process visualization and control:

@thwr said in SCADA-like process visualization and control:

@travisdh1 said in SCADA-like process visualization and control:

@thwr The control code shouldn't be that difficult. Getting some sort of GUI for people to interact with is where it becomes difficult, right? Have you considered just using HTML5? Assign control codes to pictures of the track, trains, and sensors? I don't remember which programming languages you've used before, so I'm just going generic here.

Actually, that's quite a good idea. Maybe node.js?

I'm betting a Pi would happily run that, which is going to be a consideration here.

Indeed. Not because I don't got any spare PCs (...), but I would like to see a ARM Linux in place. Much lower power consumption, no windows licenses...

Anyway. The most problematic part is to get some snap mechanism for the tracks / rails. There are like 20-30 different parts, like junctions, crossings, there are multiple layers, one track might be beyond another and so on. And I'm not exactly a web "developer" 😉

Some useful logging here for my XenPool with HALizard.

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yes, i'd like to apply this to all remote users.
Note: the users ONLY use Excel as a published remote app and its the Office/Excel date format that is in US when we'd like it to be UK.

Yes, i have changed as admin on the RDS server both the server time/date/regional settings and also Office Language settings.

I'd like the GPO to apply to ALL & ANYONE who logs onto the server or uses the remote app Excel.

@hellonadya said in Team Collaboration Tools:

@Veet I've heard of eXo Platform too! Is it good? I also remember that they have OnlyOffice add-on for document editing

Yes, it's amazing, if you like a team-collaboration with a "Social Network" twist to it .. But, don't expect features like the ones you see on Yammer .. Also, if you're doing a on-site installation, then you may find it heavy on the System requirements (4gb ram)

@Kelly said in Software package or platform suggestions:

@scottalanmiller said in Software package or platform suggestions:

@Kelly said in Software package or platform suggestions:

@scottalanmiller said in Software package or platform suggestions:

Something custom certainly would do this easily. Of the shelf, I can't think of something that would work, but I can't quite picture your workflow, either.

I have a number of things that I have to track for every employee (only 50 employees right now), all of them required by some level of government compliance. Many of them require documentary evidence, while others would simply be a date. Others would require both. Workflow is something that is more random aside from new employee starts as it would be based on need rather than a schedule.

Are these like PDFs? If so, Sharepoint or Alfresco are best. If it is just data, a quick web front end to a database might be best.

They are PDFs, but I don't think Sharepoint will work. I believe I need to be able to build relationships between my tables. Sharepoint is very flat, and there is little to no relationship between two lists. At the most basic level I could probably do it. I could do it in Excel for that matter, but it isn't designed for it.

Maybe I'm not communicating as clearly as I think I am...

I'd like a means to track all my employee information. This includes PII, numerous forms (PDF), and date/check boxes. I'd rather not make a non-normalized, scroll-forever-to-the-right list or spreadsheet. If I were to build this in Access I would have several tables on the backend linked relationally, and then use a form with several tabbed subforms as my interface.

Does that clear things up at all?

You can have multiple lists and build relationships via a higher level if you wanted. But that seems like a lot of work.

@Romo said in HP Microserver RAID controller:

@scottalanmiller said in HP Microserver RAID controller:

@Romo said in HP Microserver RAID controller:

@scottalanmiller Yes,Intel RSTe

Oh yeah, that's awful 😞

That's why I always use MD raid, fake raid is awful.

Well yes, of course. But the SmartArray software RAID isn't bad. Has some benefits. Might even do blind swap. But that's just the Microserver from HPE.

@coliver said in Removed ADFS, CRM plugin for Outlook wont authenticate now:

Man am I the only one that doesn't have issues with ADFS? It just works with little to no intervention on our part.

Yes. It's just awful.

Why do you have ADFS? Why not just sync?

@fuznutz04 said in VoIP Faxing - busy signals:

Follow up to this... They agreed to go with email to fax. Problem solved.

Sweet, well that worked out.

@DustinB3403 said in Install LAMP phpMyAdmin and MariaDB into CentOS7:

This is CentOS 7 that is running LogAnalyzer and Syslog.

I'm trying to stand up a centralized location to push the logs to from XenServer.

So you are looking for the XenServer or the CentOS logs? In both cases, they are in /var/log/messages, not in /var/log/syslog as that's an Ubuntu file.

@Veet said in Vendor Harassment Black List:

@scottalanmiller - while I back your intent, I don't think a community based black-list would work ...

Perhaps not, but what if we had a thread and each person maintained their own list on it? Then people could pick and choose quickly from that list?

Graylog has updated and no longer relies on the old version of ElasticSearch. It will use ElasticSearch 2 now. So time to revisit.

@Francesco-Provino said in LUKS, passwords and Cloud instances:

So, you already use LUKS… where do you store it, locally or on in a cloud-something? I'm very curious about that, I believe LUKS is not so widespread, but very good at solving problems like password storage.

I used it extensively and automated it's creation for a huge hedge fund. Used for global finance data. Both local and cloud.

For databases, not little files 🙂

Passwords held in trust by department managers.

@travisdh1 said in I passed....:

Good job...

Now, where do I get my evil overload certification?

EOC exams will be held on the second Friday the 13th of each calendar year, or on the eve of the first blood moon, whichever comes first.

Well to see the groups you would run dnf group list. I'm not sure if that's exactly what that is showing you.

For example in a minimal kickstart all you will normally see is

%packages @core %end

I think it's just how they package everything, so you don't have single package dependencies. I could be wrong though, I never looked into it.

@scottalanmiller said in To Password Protect a network folder or not:

@Veet said in To Password Protect a network folder or not:

Hi,

This may be off-topic, I don't see many people talk of AD RMS, with or without Gigaworks / Secureislands etc..

I'm certainly avoiding it because I have no idea what it is 😉

Gigaworks / Secure Islands I've never heard of

AD RMS = Active Directory Rights Management Services.

"By using Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) and the AD RMS client, you can augment an organization's security strategy by protecting information through persistent usage policies, which remain with the information, no matter where it is moved. You can use AD RMS to help prevent sensitive information—such as financial reports, product specifications, customer data, and confidential e-mail messages—from intentionally or accidentally getting into the wrong hands."

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771627(v=ws.11).aspx