Easy enough to add to XS7 I assume, but sucks that it isn't the default.

Top things are like this...

Reliability of the company? Integrity of the company? Companies DR planning and capability? SLA... what will happen when they have outages, what does that look like? How do you get your data out of their system? What are they allowed to do with your data? Is the system modern and under continuous development? Location of your data / what jurisdiction.

Damn - you're right - I'll make a new thread.

@JaredBusch said in Duplicate file Finders - Windows File Servers:

@Dashrender said in Duplicate file Finders - Windows File Servers:

I have used the free products from http://www.auslogics.com/en/

I will almost never choose to use a product that advertises this kind of stuff.

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There isn't even a registry cleaner! /sarcasm

Knock on wood, I haven't had any issues, but a full image type backup would be advisable before starting.

@Lakshmana said in Data Transfer not able from MAC Airbook to Windows 8.1:

@scottalanmiller The Mcafee DLP is enabled in every machine so unable to turn on or off from my side.USB is not preferrable for data copy

So... you can't transfer files because it is desired that you not transfer them. Maybe the issue is that you should not be transferring files?

Likely just oversight or they thought that it was so uncommonly desired that it would just confuse people.

@Grey said in Firefox continually crashing out in VDI:

I installed Firefox Portable and removed standard FireFox. Something between v32 and v42 changed the way that profiles are handled and they can't deal with data that's copied/imaged in the way that Personas/View handles %appdata%.

Odd. I haven't run into this yet, I'd knock on wood, but it's all fake plastic around me right now.

So as is with most things. I actually did set an address for Bind in named.conf. I just needed to add the ip address to listen on and add the zone for recursion and it's working now. Thanks!

Ah, yeah, that'd do it. ext4 ftw on boot!

@Dashrender said in xByte has delivered with an awesome pair of servers:

@DustinB3403 said in xByte has delivered with an awesome pair of servers:

These are configured with 4TB Dell OEM drives in RAID10 (eight drives total)

They came configured?

He never said they were pre-configured. Why would you even think that based on what was said?

That said, you can choose to have them preconfigured in some RAID configuration. It is not the defualt choice on their website.

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I gave up on the Dell iDRAC console long ago.

@hobbit666 checked other links here at ML, it's not generated by the system. So a typo, I guess.

@Dashrender said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

@scottalanmiller said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

@Dashrender said in Is Windows 10 Pro a free upgrade for businesses?:

Exactly - the confusing part is they (Microsoft) use the generic term Business, and say they will have to pay for upgrades, but that only applies to companies with Enterprise Level agreements, i.e. Windows Enterprise Edition.

When has Microsoft said that businesses would not be free? i've never seen them say that.

I've read many things that said that businesses would have to pay for upgrades - sure never MS, always journalists.

I know the OEM and FPP licenses are all upgrade-able free, Enterprise Agreements and VL licenses are what don't upgrade free.

VL is only for upgrades, though, so it overlaps. It would be silly to upgrade a VL since the VL itself is the upgrade! The upgrade replaces your VL rather than being on the VL. Only VL that doesn't count is the version of Windows that doesn't apply.

@John-Nicholson said in Vmware Audit:

@thwr 7 days isn't actually that hard to meet with if your a Fortune 500 who properly tracks your licensing. If you don't then you need to ask for extra time (Which even Microsoft and Oracle will give you) and assistance (VMware has licensing optimization scripts that can be run even outside of audits to make sure your in compliance).

Do you just install Office on computers, and Windows and create Windows SQL servers without tracking your usage vs. licensing or do you just use BSD licensed software?

I'm in public EDU. We're running quite a bunch of MS products like SQL Server, SharePoint, Forefront UAG, System Center and others. I have a very exhaustive stack of paper about where we use what since when - and it's driving me nuts. It's very hard to keep track, especially in case of upgrades. Try to keep track of a machine upgraded since XP. Very funny.

That's why I am replacing quite a few things with FOSS alternatives wherever possible.

@Jason said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@Dashrender said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@scottalanmiller said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

@Dashrender said in What's your favorite brand for network gear?:

Huawei could solve this by making their platform completely open. Basically only sell hardware and allow others to make their own firmware/software that runs on it.

Who would buy it then? Useless hardware without vertical support? What business would use that? That's the DD-WRT model. Great for hobbyists, but that's not what they are going for. They want business usage.

Well the hope would be that the FOSS environment would make awesome firmware for it, than you could KNOW didn't have a back doors.

Hardware itself can have backdoors

Heard the story where the NSA intercepted shipments of switches and routers from well-known brands just to open the package, install a custom firmware and repackage it and finally sent it to the customer?

We're living in an odd world, even Orwell wouldn't believe that I guess. Hardware can have backdoors, same for software. But even the NSA or the big red dragon need to use IP I guess, so we can at least place a firewall in front of everything.

As for FOSS, well, I had a look at this:. There are quite some Linux based OS's for switches out there, like Cumulus or OpenSwitch (http://mangolassi.it/topic/9388/openswitch-moves-under-linux-foundation-umbrella). This on some open switch (bare metal or SDN) like the ones from Quanta (http://www.qct.io/-c77c75c159) or SuperMicro (https://www.supermicro.nl/products/accessories/Networking/SSE-G3648B.cfm for example) would at least increase the situations about software backdoors, but won't solve the hardware backdoor problem. But having software and hardware separated, both can be more easily tested for backdoors. And THIS could in fact improve the situation.

Sadly, we are just not there yet: Bare metal and Linux/BSD in core networking is coming, but it will take many years to reach the average SMB. Right now, the whole open switch story is all about SDN in the datacenter, as far as I know.

@cakeis_not_alie said in at cakeis not alie looking for Ubiquiti experience:

Following up on this thread, the above information worked. Removing the "any" and replacing with "the external IP of the box into which you are currently logged in" solved the problem.

Roar! It sucks that "any" is in literally every other piece of configuration information about site-to-site VPNs for Ubiquiti! Hat's off to Jared Busch for his knowledge of edge cases, and a case of beer owed for my salvation.

Cheers to all who helped.

IMO, firmware 1.8.0 is buggy as shit with IPSEC. There were a lot of posts on their forums about various issues back when it first released.

p.s. http://www.beermonthclub.com/join-or-give-a-gift-membership.htm