@JaredBusch said in NIC teaming on Hyper-V:

Then you make you vSwitch. If you already have your vSwitch setup, make a team with the ports NOT on the vSwitch, move the vSwitch to the team and then add the final NIC to the team.

Not much to add here. SwitchIndependent mode is a big one on Hyper-V. Sure, Windows can easily use LACP and other means, but what if you want to use two or more uplink switches for redundancy? LACP can't handle this and there is just a handful of proprietary protocols that can. SwitchIndependent mode is doing exactly this by "load balancing" VMs and Host traffic between the available links and failover in case something goes south.

This way, like @JaredBusch said above, you can have LACP-like functionality (max single port speed for a single traffic source) over multiple inexpensive switches. In fact, the switch doesn't know anything about that type of teaming, you could even use unmanaged switches (but really, don't do that)

My hosts are running in this mode.

Looks good!

@scottalanmiller said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:

@hobbit666 said in Using a NAS for backups & Unitrends FREE:

The version I got doesn't seem to support XenServer?
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Not at the hypervisor / platform level. You need to work with agents the same as if it was physical. Doesn't work with ESXi Free, either.

ESXi Free version has no backup API's... that's the issue.

@IRJ said in SEO for dummies:

Unix based systems are the king of web servers and case actually matters on these systems.

Not so much these days since sites run CMSs and don't rely on the underlying OS. Wordpress, for example, as I've mentioned, isn't case sensitive, despite the majority of Wordpress sites running on Linux.

@IRJ said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@scottalanmiller said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@IRJ said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@wirestyle22 said in Today i decommissioned an Athlon Xp 2200+ machine I may have built:

@IRJ From what I've seen of the benchmarks, Intel is killing it. There is a market for AMD with budget gaming builds etc though.

I think the Athlon XP processor was the last time AMD actually beat Intel for a brief period of time when you consider overall value.

Oh no. The first several generations of Opterons were the real winners. The XP wasn't even in the same class. it was the Opteron that put AMD in the lead for several years. AMD owned the decade of 2000.

Athlon XP Processors weren't top of the line, but they offered more VALUE for typical PCs.

And the Opteron offered even more comparative value. Nothing came close.

@Ambarishrh said in Asterisk PBX so many choices, where to begin?:

I would be interested to make calls outside. Here in the UAE they have pretty strict policies on VOIP. I use a voip service called Nymgo with PrivateInternetAccess VPN, but would be great if i can use a provider and try this from the PBX. Not sure if google voice works outside US

Sorry, I keep forgetting about the outside the US thing.

@IRJ said in Any decent Open Source Speech to Text Products?:

@aaronstuder said in Any decent Open Source Speech to Text Products?:

@IRJ Ah, I use it personally 🙂

How accurate is it?

We used it when I worked at the local high school. It was 90-99% accurate depending on how well the students could enunciate. Although it still did really well with people who tended to mumble.

@anthonyh said in Ubiquiti AF5 Connection Question:

@wirestyle22 said in Ubiquiti AF5 Connection Question:

@anthonyh said in Ubiquiti AF5 Connection Question:

"UBNT-Chuck" from my Ubiquiti thread (the employee who initially tested this for me) re-tested and confirmed that in his environment directly connecting the two results in a 100Mbps link. Hopefully they fix that in a future revision.

Did they confirm that this is an auto-sense problem due to the POE injectors?

They just confirmed that it was a problem. Haha...

Unfortunately the issue I'm having still exists...I may start a separate thread about it if I get completely stumped.

God's speed.

Here's another one:
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/07/malware-caught-10000-facebook-users-unaware-in-three-days/

@scottalanmiller said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

@BBigford said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

@coliver said in ML you popular beast... 😉:

Nope haven't seen it since yesterday.

I saw it twice yesterday. Nothing today though. Comes and goes.

We only made the change yesterday.

My expectations are unreasonable.

@JaredBusch said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@scottalanmiller said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@fuznutz04 said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@scottalanmiller said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@fuznutz04 said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@JaredBusch said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

@fuznutz04 said in Permissions in Linux - Asterisk:

Is one method preferred/better than the other? (script to change permissions vs changing file location of file)

To me, it would come down to WTF you are using these custom things for. Without that detail, I have no idea what would be better.

We're querying a file in this location to get some information from the PBX such as current calls, queue information, etc for an internal piece of software. It doesn't have to be in that directory, so I'll go down t he path of just moving the files and referencing them. Hopefully FreePBX wont overwrite the apache conf file when upgraded/reloaded.

Why not push it directly to where you need it?

You mean push the original files in question to the PBX via script?

I thought that they were already on the PBX. Push them to somewhere else via script is what I was thinking.

They (apparently) have custom scripts that pull data from Asterisk for use elsewhere. These scripts would have to reside on the Asterisk box.

Understood. Was thinking that instead of saving the data locally, they could immediately push it elsewhere so that the perms wouldn't be an issue.

@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 - screen sleeps but only wakes with ctrl+alt+del:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 - screen sleeps but only wakes with ctrl+alt+del:

@JaredBusch said in Windows 10 - screen sleeps but only wakes with ctrl+alt+del:

I would check what GPO are affecting her. Maybe the user or machine has some GPO applied that requires CAD.

She has the same GPOs as 80 other people, but I suppose there could be a profile problem.

Did you confirm that with gpresult /r and gpresult /r /scope computer

Not yet 🙂

@Dashrender said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products: Active Directory & Domain Controller:

Samba is quite capable of running AD, but what about management options or multi-site environments?

What is the issue with management (the Windows tools should work with it) and what happens with multi-site?

Sorry, didn't see your question because of the formatting. FTFY.

Like I said, the whole topic is just about discussing valid alternatives for the typical SMB / EDU environment. I was aware that Samba 4 got full DC capabilities, at least when it comes to authentication. I did not know about its GPO support and other things like replication between "DC"s or the possibility to use Microsoft's RSAT tools for management.

@coliver (and you) mentioned one can use RSAT for management. That's good and would mean that the Samba4-team is trying hard to get to a high level of compatibility. How to say... looks like a perfect replacement for a real DC.

Back to your question, multi-site (and/or subdomain) is a quite important feature in case you got a branch office, for example.

I've run many branch offices with no local DC. AD authentication is extremely light traffic wise. installing software via GPO could give you problems, or needing a local server for file access might be needed, but and AD in most branch offices isn't. Unless your branch is like 100+ people.

you can put Linux fileservers in branch offices to handle the load locally.

Sorry, was on vacation.

@RamblingBiped said in SPF Records for Google Apps Mail:

@TAHIN So I should be able to get away with the same entry as what you have then? What does the addition of "a mx" add?

Adding the 'a mx' parameters indicates that only servers that match a public A record or public MX record of your domain are allowed to send. Generally, just saying MX is enough - you're telling the recipient to fail the mail unless the sending IP matches the IP address of one of your domain's MX records, effectively eliminating spoofing. We added 'A' to give us the flexibility to source email from an application or DMZ server. The include: parameter overrides these defaults, allowing Google to proxy.

80% of the reason we (and most companies) implement SPF is to protect their own organization from incoming spearphishing via domain spoofing. The fact that it isn't 100% adopted by all organizations shouldn't be a deterrent to use it.

I actually used XO to migrate the VM that XO was running on.

Now THAT was cool!

@coliver said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@coliver said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@tonyshowoff said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@thwr said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

My major concern about using Microsoft software is not about the quality or the price. It's about managing all the licensing, which really is a PITA and nearly impossible to overcome for just a one or two men show.

I am often amazed to find SMBs unwilling to consider the licensing overhead aspects of software choices. It can represent a massive cost. When people talk about the "hidden" costs of open source, they normally mention things that are equal with closed source, but they universally overlook licensing which is the only unique cost between the two and often one of the largest.

"You git what you pay fer" - Every anti-Open Source salesman. Every once in a while I still hear that from regular IT people who shouldn't be in IT. It used to happen more often, about 15 years ago I used to constantly hear "Linux? You get what you pay for!" and of course quotes from Robert Heinlein novels about neoliberals on the Moon.

I heard this from financial VPs at a company I used to work for. Even when I would give a list of open source products that we used.

that's when you come to NTG and ask us to "sell" any open source product that you need, at 20% above the cost of whatever closed source product you are looking at instead. Problem solved.

Haha, oddly enough I did exactly that. Worked like a charm!

Once "highest price means best deal" happens, all logic is out the window and some weird things happen.

@LAH3385 Once the NTG lab is back up and running (should be soon) and I have some free time (I'm speaking at SpiceCorps Auburn today) I'm going to be playing with NextCloud pretty high on my priority list and will hopefully be able to make an automated install that you can just run, no knowledge needed.

Proxim always made high quality, no Internet required mesh gear as well.

@thwr said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:

@Carnival-Boy said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:

I think the biggest problem with Sharepoint Foundation, in terms of cost, is the database requirements i.e. it will only run with SQL Server.

SQL Server Express is free, but is pretty limited and doesn't really seem intended for production environments. In particular the fact that databases are limited to 10GB, which seems pretty tiny for a typical Sharepoint site. So you quickly end up needing SQL Server Standard edition, which is pretty expensive. If you don't have SQL Server already, you probably need to budget for that at the outset, even if you're only planning on using Sharepoint Foundation.

I'd like Microsoft to provide something in between Express and Standard, but I'm not allowed to criticise Microsoft on ML so I'll say no more 🙂

Don't want to defile an old thread, but I need to add a few things.

First off, comparing Sharepoint to OwnCloud, while beeing a great tool, is like comparing
a warp-capable spaceship to a paperdart. SharePoint is a collaboration platform where you build your own applications on top while OwnCloud is basically a filesharing platform with a few addons.

There are quite a few factors which are driving the costs for SharePoint:

Windows Server CALs (few known users / devices) or Windows Server for Internet Sites ("CAL" flatrate, mucho dinero) SQL Server, Standard or higher edition and CALs (UserCAL's for SQL server are very expensive. Use this for a few known users) or Core edition (Flatrate, can be more or less "cheap". I'm using this one) If going past SP Foundation:
a) SharePoint CAL, Standard should suffice in most cases
b) SharePoint for Internet Sites if public facing with anonymous access
c) You will most probably need a farm, at least one frontend and one backend server. ForeFront UAG/TMG and CAL (used to be the only "supported" reverse proxy). Not sold anymore, no successor available, Windows Server publishing role is used today

So SharePoint Standard / Enterprise on a public facing site with anonymous access can burn through your budget like Oracle and SAP. SharePoint for a known user base can be OK from a licensing point of view. Today, SharePoint on Office365 is way cheaper than having something on premise I guess.

SharePoint has a lot to offer and I haven't found anything FOSS that comes even close myself yet. Alfresco is the only one that at least is a very little bit like SharePoint, but nothing I would call a replacement.

So what is SharePoint actually? Simply said, anything you want it to be. It's an application platform with multiple frontends, the well known website is just one of them.

I think Drupal + Alfresco can get really close. I've built some really cool stuff with Drupal by itself, and with the pseudo Alfresco integration you can have, it will let you do some really nice things.