@thecreativeone91 said:

What makes you think because it works in the browser the ports aren't blocked? The app uses port 32400 (TCP)

Yeah, I know. Because the web link is jump.thanksaj.com:32400/web but, from what I can tell, it routes the Plex app through their servers via your account which then connects back to your server. I'm thinking that there must be some proxy of some sort causing the disconnect but I'm not sure if there is anything I can do to get around it...

@Aaron-Studer said:

Yeah, I thought about that too. Can't run windows apps then.

Why do you want Windows apps? 😉

@Josh said:

@thanksajdotcom Client updates are automatic, however they do not necessarily get pushed at the same time as releases. The Windows update should go out very soon. In the past, we required manual updates.

Oh believe me, I remember...

@MattSpeller said:

@thecreativeone91 ProCurve Wireless Edge Services zl - console is not compliant with anything NEWER than IE7. To reboot the WESM you have to reboot the WHOLE switch.

I have do that too with the Cisco W4400 switch I have. I'll be glad to be rid of that... even though we had zero problems with it for 8 years.

@thecreativeone91 said:

@coliver said:

Just an update. I logged into one of the user's machines remotely and was able to access and update the room resource from Outlook. So now I have to figure out why OWA isn't working. It may be the way I logged into it?

Well that's odd. I usually have problems with Outlook and OWA works fine. I would clear the browser and if that doesn't work just open a ticket.

Same, I tried in a few different browsers. I am fairly certain it was the way I logged into those accounts (via the fullaccess command from powershell) that caused it. I am going to work with the other users to see if they can access it.

Oddly, the original shared calendar still doesn't work.

@Hubtech PM me the Office 365 login and I will take a quick peek.

Had to reimage both my Linux servers, so I'm going to try CentOS 7 for my new Plex instance.

Agree with @thecreativeone91. You're overthinking it. LOL

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

The Syracuse pool is not great for IT. Not qualified IT people.

It's got plenty of Cisco people. Everyone does. Way more than there are jobs. They are just unable to attract them.

Most Cisco people I know have moved to sales for telecom companies (verizon etc) doing Business 2 Business sales because they can make a lot more money than the Network jobs will pay.

Most network people can't do sales jobs.

I am an exception to that...lol

@thecreativeone91 said:

I would not use Google voice for business.

Why not? I've never seen it go down or not work.

@IRJ said:

This would be a really good idea since many of us have had some issues. Maybe you could show us how to deal with some of the issues we have been experiencing and show us your infrastructure.

Ditto this tenfold.

Without reading everyone's posts, my guess is it sees the local Exchange server and tries to pull from that. You need to have the client migrate EVERYTHING to Office365 and get off that local server. I don't even want to try and figure out how you have all the MX records, etc setup.

One of our vendors alerted us about this patch last week.

@scottalanmiller said:

We lead with geo-specific deny rules to block regions before allowing ports.

And in that case it makes sense. You're blocking all traffic from China or Russia, for example. Then you allow the ports you want open but those countries are blocked, and maybe every other country is fine (hopefully you haven't blocked Spain... ;)), and then you deny the rest. That also makes logistical sense. I don't disagree with @thecreativeone91. It all comes down to what your objective is and then determining the best way to approach it.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

You don't know their names? Anyone I've ever had allowed to remote in has to had to have paper work on file and we did background checks on them ourselves before they were allowed in ours systems. When it comes to any issues that may occur this information is really needed.

When you are dealing with helpdesk outsourcing that can be tough as you are dealing with a pool of people, not a named engineer.

I've always done if for the people that were on vendor support contracts. Not a big deal just meant every time there was a new employee there was a day or two delay til they could do anything with their software on our network. Much of it was required by regulations anyway.

JIRA is super affordable at just $10 for 10 users (If you host it)

@thecreativeone91 said:

windows will likely get replace with something else (linux etc) in the enterprise. but that's a good while off.

That's been happening for years. The shift to Linux from Windows has been huge.