@guyinpv said in What do you use to track client data and logs and more?:

Speaking of security, if a note is just a file in OneDrive, can't it be shared out to a client that way?

Should be able to, yes.

@scottalanmiller said in Why Does Everyone Still Focus on Relational Databases?:

I just built out a NoSQL ElasticSearch three node cluster in the lab. Whoo!

The perfect DB setup for storing a hit counter for the number of times I've watched Tombstone!

@scottalanmiller

It's ok. That's not my favorite by far, but it's what was in the fridge, so it worked.

@Dashrender said in Hyper-V replication licensing:

@scottalanmiller said in Hyper-V replication licensing:

@Dashrender said in Hyper-V replication licensing:

I definitely see what Scott is saying here and what Dustin is saying here. Clearly there appears to be a need for a term of what crazy SMB owners think of as HA, probably at best meaning redundant internet and servers and perhaps power (but often not because if power is out in an SMB, it's likely the whole business is down anyhow).

But what they normally want is just "to waste money." Nothing more. No need for a special term.

Do you really see this as a conscious choice or just through their actions?

Definitely a conscious choice. The conscious choice might be to be "lazy, uninformed and not care what gets done", but that much is conscious. That that results in wasting money is as clear as the nose on their faces. They don't, I feel, normally (but certainly many times) decide to throw money away just to do it, they do it because being lazy and not caring results in that and since they are actively not bothering to care, it's conscious.

I'm pretty sure that a lot of places throw money away to brag. It appears to be a common SMB trait to flaunt the ability to waste money. I see that a lot, too.

@dafyre said in Concept: Automate License Acquisition:

@scottalanmiller said in Concept: Automate License Acquisition:

@dafyre said in Concept: Automate License Acquisition:

@scottalanmiller said in Concept: Automate License Acquisition:

@BBigford said in Concept: Automate License Acquisition:

"Backup" or "failover" licenses is something I have never understood. L

Basically there is no such thing. Feeling that there is is what makes it confusing. All usage of Windows is... well.. usage of Windows. So if you use it, you have to license it.

I buy a license to run a single Windows server. That single server only runs on a single VM Host at any given time, excepting live migrations. Why do I need two licenses for this?

Is that because I have two servers that could possibly run my single copy of Windows Server?

Because the license that you mention does not allow the usage that you describe. Unless you also limit the live migrations to once every 90 days, you need one license per physical server, not just one overall.

Wow... I think that just pretty much eliminated me ever using a Windows Server for anything again, if I have any say in the matter!

It's always been like that. One of the many, many limitations that shocks me how often SMBs just accept as "we have to do it this way and won't even consider alternatives."

That's a really interesting idea. Not something that I can see using, but very interesting.

My finance guys were on Python and R many, many years ago. Excel for finance? LOL

OSSIM does much more than just OpenVAS... It can be a snort sensor collector and such too.

@Romo said in Video Conferencing Software:

@scottalanmiller said in Video Conferencing Software:

What about your normal phone system? Most PBX do video calling naturally. This can be a really handy way for internal calls.

Always thought they could only do voice, I am going to have to test this.

FreePBX and any Asterisk based system does full video by default. It's pretty slick. You can use video phones without any special configuration at all.

I spent $2200 on my G752VY it's what I play everything on now.

it's almost a desktop, its that large.

No problem!

@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.