@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.

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If you don't check the option drill down from parent collection, your filters apply to all your computers. That's why computers without java get marked with your checking java version filter.

Since their is no nesting inside collections filters, you would need to have a top level dynamic collection checking which computers have the software installed and then have another dynamic collection with the option to drill down from parent collection that checks for your specified version of the software.

@LAH3385 I bought my first wildcard cert at just $40 on 3 years purchase from https://www.ssl2buy.com

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@scottalanmiller said in XenServer Disable Root:

@Jason said in XenServer Disable Root:

@DustinB3403 said in XenServer Disable Root:

Then do a sweep of your network ensuring no one has XenCenter that isn't supposed to.

Fail! Not installing software is not a form of access control. You can find probable exe's and ways around just about any of that.

Instead, lock down the XS machine to ensure that only the selected XO host has any kind of access to it.

Gah, where was my head all day long.

@Carnival-Boy said in ESXi Evaluation Period:

I have recently downgraded from ESXi Essentials to ESXi Free simply by entering a different key. It's the same product.

I'd say you moved between products. It's one product family, they are super similar, but are they the same product? Just semantics, but they are very different.

XO Community and XOA are not the same product. But it's the same code.

@momurda said in Start/stop permissions in XS pool:

Downloading the xo xva now

Unless you plan to pay for support, stick with the free version.

It's a nice city. @Bob-Beatty lives there.

@scottalanmiller said in This is new...:

@Dashrender said in This is new...:

I wonder if timemachine grabbed the page already?

No Apple products here. Do you mean the Way Back Machine? That only grabs like once a quarter. So pretty unlikely.

oh - ok yeah that!

@art_of_shred said in Independence Day: Resurgence - Atrocious Script But Admittingly Fun:

@Dashrender said in Independence Day: Resurgence - Atrocious Script But Admittingly Fun:

I completely agree - a total Popcorn movie - but really - turn my brain off and just have fun.

Spoilers
I had more issue with Will Smith stealing a choper in the last movie to find his girlfriend than I did with the kids sudden appearance picking up Papa Levinson.

Yeah that death scene was definitely super cheese! I agree with your assessment complete and was left confused.

Also, what about the fact that the spheriod dude has all this advanced technology, but doesn't have shields? Really? Come on! Oh OH oh I know.. the sensors on the ship knew they weren't the bad aliens (we still don't have a name for them) so they didn't raise - oh never mind - it's just a movie 😛

Not to mention that they have this knowledge-transfer session with the alien orb, who knows all about how to defeat the Harvesters, and they use none of the new information to defeat them. Instead it's a "let's try to beat it at it's own game" plan, with no guarantee of success. Oh, and why not just drill into Saturn (they passed right by) to get energy from a planet's core? It's big, and it's uninhabited. No fight.

Yep - sips some tea.

@inroute said in Need some Help in router submask configuration:

Thank you all for your help

Did you get it all working?