@Dashrender said in BackBlaze vs. CrashPlan:

@BBigford said in BackBlaze vs. CrashPlan:

reasoning behind trying BB & CP. Our other servers and Windows workstations are backed up with System Center DPM, which allow for immediate restore after running a successful backup.

Well, that's case case with most products - though it sounds like CP has some sort of indexing it has to do on the server side post backup - so that's a drag.

Are there any more traditional backup products that can be used - hate to mention them, but something like Backup Exec - something that can backup to a local system, then push to a cloud source.

Also, I'm wondering - why do you need to worry about end point computers? Can't your users save all there work to a network drive?

We could use something like Unitrends, but there are only about a dozen Macs so the cost isn't justified. I think we would end up running a few thousand if I remember right. I put OSX Server 10.11 on a laptop to test the new functionality. Not nearly as good as it used to be, and it was never really that good.

Sorry @scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch (not bragging but the solution is very simple)

Below is a working result of the setup and backup job.

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What unknown device is showing? Maybe a screenshot?

Did you reboot post install? 😛

Now THIS is the kind of chatter this thread deserved, LOL.

@JaredBusch said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:

@scottalanmiller said in AOL - Exchange - email received calendar event not so much?:

I wonder if my ICQ is still out there. No idea what it was anymore.

Also apparently, the 6 digit account numbers had some kind of internet fame in the early 2000s. There was huge hacking news about people stealing 6 digit ICQ accounts. No idea why.

Because they were very short, I had two 6 digit ones, because I got them so long before that, I also had much shorter ones (the lowest was 1000 in the original ICQ protocol) I arbitrarily created by purging the original accounts.

Whether or not it still exists, the answer is: probably. Only suspended users and paying users are purged after about 10 years, so there are literally about 80 million accounts going unused across the entire infrastructure that will never be used again.

@Dashrender said in MS removed SharePoint from Business plans:

VDI seems complex in licensing.

That is the only exception that I could think of, but is that really complex? I think the complexity is that people don't want to learn and/or admit what VDI is and make the complexity in understanding VDI, not in understanding VDI licensing.

@BRRABill said in Backup MX or no?:

So, to answer the question posted about that article, if you are interested in making sure your e-mail gets delivered, then ignore that article.

The article is fine, you just have to read it to see the context. This is the context setting piece:

They do this as secondary records usually point to email servers that deploy little or no security checks such as those you’d find at some ISP’s for example. This encourages the spamming servers to keep sending even more as they can see it’s being accepted and so the vicious circle continues.

Basically we see people seeing up a second MX and not maintaining it.

So instead of telling people to get a clue and manage their servers, they say to just do things poorly. It's more of "we assume that you won't take good advice, so we'll give you more bad advice based on that assumption."

If you truly assume that you simply won't properly maintain the second SMTP MTA, then sure, don't have one. But that applies at a much more general level. Let me provide a best practice that supersedes all of this:

Best Practice: Never run a server or IT resource that you do not properly maintain.

@brianlittlejohn said in OSX Server - Free?:

@scottalanmiller said in OSX Server - Free?:

@brianlittlejohn said in OSX Server - Free?:

I have always loved macs...well since they switched to Intel processors... but could not stand OS X Server. Nothing ever worked right for me with OSX Server and then the documentation on it was horrendous.

I tried using it for a client one time. It didn't work, at all. We escalated the issue to Apple support all the way to engineering. Engineering was super helpful and responsive but their final answer was "the product just doesn't work and Apple is not going to fix or address it, broken is simply the state of the product and will remain so." And that was that. It's simply a non-viable, unsupported product. I would never touch it again.

The two servers I put in, OpenDirectory (or whatever apple calls it) corrupted on both of them... big pain to rebuild.

Yup, Apple just isn't a business focused company. Sure their desktops are better than their server, but the overall issues are really that Apple just doesn't take business needs seriously and still sees their products as an entertainment platform, not a business one.

I'm afraid that I have no useful feedback. I've never had great luck with McAfee. It's better than some, but not good enough that I would use it. Easier and cheaper than fixing it would be moving to something better like Webroot, IMHO.

I think this thread must have picked up a few buzzwords along the way. Buzz word. Buzzword. Buzzy fuzzy word...

It seems to me like the new iproute2 tools are more powerful, at least according to some articles I've seen... and they have been around since 1999 according to Wikipedia, lol.

@mlnews said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@Dashrender said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@scottalanmiller said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@Dashrender said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@dafyre said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@Dashrender said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

@brianlittlejohn said in If you don't question me, you don't respect me:

One thing that may help out ML is that there is no rating system based on number of posts/etc. so you don't have people trying to "move up to the next level" so to speak by posting garbage.

Speak for yourself - I'm trying for first place in the number of posts on ML category. 😛 Though considering Scott has more than 3 times as many posts as me.. probably won't happen in my lifetime.

And for those that don't know... I'm totally joking!

I tihnk @scottalanmiller has more than the rest of us in the top 10 combined, lol.

Nope, the next 8 combines 😛

The gap from 2nd to 3rd is nearly 2 to 1.

Did you include the fact that I'm in first and eleventh places?

no, that would go to the next nine then maybe - I was treating MLNews as it's own thing.

Good, because I'm my own person with my own personality.

@mlnews is a bot... or maybe @scottalanmiller is the bot... but then he posts pictures every now and again... but so does @mlnews.... Maybe one of them is related to Siri, and the other is related to Cortana?

@aaronstuder said in Encrypted flash drives:

Remember that a VeraCrypt Volume is just a file. It can have no extension or it can have a fake one. I normally fill the flash drive with a bunch of unimportant unencrypted documents, as well some VeraCrypt Volume's named TPS_Report.xls, pics.zip, etc. Any normally person finding the USB drive, just assumes that those files at corrupted, and deletes then or better yet just wipes the drive and reuses it.

Same think I do in my PenDrive using Veracrypt.

Veracrypt is great and Free!!!

My stock answer is.... business people have no business talking about under the hood technical details. Any business person or manager that you are talking to about this has decided, for better or for worse, to take on an IT role (even if a cursory one). This is a technical concept and has no business explanation. Keep it technical.

@scottalanmiller said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@Dashrender said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@Jason said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

@alex.olynyk said in The functional level of the domain or forest is incompatible with this operating system:

Trying to promote Server 2008 when the domain and forest functional level is at Windows Server 2012R2.

Okay, this one should be obivious the functional level is at 2012R2.. therefore nothing older than 2012R2 can be a DC.

Make a new server 2012r2 VM as a DC. Do not try to lower functional level, this a bad idea.

I agree - don't try to lower the Functional Level. If you don't have the funds to buy a 2012 R2 server to run as a DC, check into running Linux as a DC in a Windows forest. It will be free.

I don't believe that Samba4 can support anything later than 2008R2 functional level, though. If it does, it's very new.

Oh - that sucks! I wonder what the hold up is? That's a whole 2 versions behind, and almost a third.

Well I figured it out in case anyone cares. The /etc/grub.conf wasn't being copied to the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. Not really sure why, but we have a password on grub so that might possibly be it. I didn't create this kickstart, so I'm not sure what post install junk is happening that might limit this also.

@Dashrender said in MDT 2012 - PowerShell error:

Does the path include access to PowerShell?

How would one verify?

Not sure on that one - it's after my time.