@Dashrender said:

No, don't think so... I think it's dynamic DNS, unless it changed.

You are correct. You'd want something more than a cache then.

@Aaron-Studer said:

One of the great things about Digital Ocean is there massive collection of Tutorials.

The best part of all, almost all of them in general tutorials meaning you can use them, even if you don't use Digital Ocean!

Check it out: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials

I've used several of their walkthroughs. They are very good.

@Carnival-Boy said:

@coliver said:

If I remember correctly there is no way to properly license a virtual instance of XP.

XP Mode running under a Windows 7 VM?

That makes it easier. But you will still need the proper virtualization licenses for WIndows 7.

I had to disable IE10 installs for similar reasons.
Craptastic legacy applications that are pushed upon us 😞

It's currently working here, however it could have been a minor service issue, or about a half dozen other things.

Awesome, glad it worked.

@thecreativeone91 that looks really promising!

ahhhhhhhhh there we go - thank you guys

@Rob-Dunn said:

Regarding Spark - that is one clunky, heavy client. Isn't it Java based?

Yeah, it is ancient and pretty much no one using OpenFire has used it in years.

Yep.

@Dashrender said:

Makes what Katie just posted kinda difficult. 😉

Yeah, I've noticed that even in the Unitrends Community, which is the forum for the community edition (aka Unitrends Free). Unitrends employes have been giving different answers to the same questions. I'm wonderg if they aren't basing their answers off some internal version rather than the Unitrends free public beta. They also said on the forums that the disk based exclusions currently are not working even if selected in the GUI, I don't even have the option for that. So, I'm guessing it's that the non working features are not in the public beta.

I've done this many many times - mainly so I can use WSUS to pull down the windows updates locally instead of using MS's update servers.

Do exactly what you said. Build the machine, join the domain, do your setup, take a pre sysprep image, unjoin the domain, reboot, sysprep, take image.. deploy image, join domain.. done.

Plug in the usb in the right side click format with an image. Don't remember the DVD process but it should be similar.

@thecreativeone91 I will check client pc and confirm the details

@scottalanmiller said:

Hard to say but I feel like it is tied to the massive shift from VMWare to HyperV virtualization.

I'd say that's has a lot to do with it. VMWare's offerings are becoming less and less attractive.

@thecreativeone91 said:

How did you add this disk? Is is a second VMDK/VHDX or a Pass through?

a second vhdx

A lot of places restrict the allowed characters because they're morons who don't understand SQL injection and think it's a way to avoid it. Ideally any character should be allowed that can be transferred over HTTP without breaking the hell out of things, which is everything which can be properly encoded.

I do trim passwords though, something old school jackasses think is bad, because after all, if there's a space at the beginning or end of a password, or a newline/return character, it must be on purpose, despite the fact that 99.9999999999% of the time it's because someone copy/pasted the password from an email or something and accidentally added on the space/\r/\n. Of course you can make the argument of never sending a password in an email (and we don't), but tell that to users who will do it all day long.

I also wrote a method to deal with "easy" passwords, things like repeating words, pattern recognition for phone numbers, birthdates, etc.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

I just realized what the "Big red V" is....

Not to be confused with the big pink V.

And what is that?

I have no idea either.

@thecreativeone91 said:

What the Adavantage with Pbx in a flash? That's the only one I haven't used. I've mostly used FreePBX (and some straight up asterisk)

The PBX in a Flash team also has a lot of nice extra features baked in and some that you can add (Traveling Man is a good example).

PBX in a Flash existed long before FreePBX had a distribution of its own. Obviously, PIAF uses the FreePBX GUI just like Elastix.unli,e Elastix, they do not wrap everything around in their own GUI. All that PIAF does is add a quick and dirty landing page to let you access the various tools directly from one place.

You basically need to know more to truly admin a PIAF system well.

It is also heavily focused on security.

@NetworkNerd said:

If you want to know more about vSphere 6 or VSAN, there are lots of tasks in CloudCred related to them. Oh yeah, and our team is not very active these days.

Probably because VMware isn't as exciting as it used to be 4-6 months ago. I'm curious what new Hyper-V improvements will be in Windows Server 10 (although apparently it's just going to be called "windows server", no version)