@JasGot said in Weird RDP issues with one application.:

@black3dynamite said in Weird RDP issues with one application.:

https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/kb/known-issues.html

Thanks. This was it. But suddenly, it's not enough of a frustration to go without audio! Go figure.

Also does your use have an NVidia Video card? If so, they can get this.
https://developer.nvidia.com/designworks

Here's another test. It shows that IPsec is more than 50% faster than WireGuard.
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https://www.pcwrt.com/2020/02/performance-comparisons-of-three-vpn-protocols-on-a-budget-router/

Thing is that WireGuard uses the ChaCha20 cipher which is very efficient and fast on non-dedicated hardware. IPsec, and sometimes also OpenVPN, can however often use hardware acceleration on AES and is then faster.

It's the devices in each end and their architecture (ARM, x86 etc) and any hardware offloading that will determine what to pick for maximum performance on a VPN. And often it just doesn't matter - for instance when the hardware can handle encryption at WAN speed.

Nice thing about WireGuard is that it has just been included in the 5.6 kernel so soon enough it will be available by default on every linux system.

@EddieJennings said in MacVTap Modes:

One option I didn't see in the redhat doc was openvswitch. Don't they support it?

The link I posted was for RHEL 6. I just now saw that RHEL 8's documentation is online. I glanced through it and didn't see that mentioned. I'll read it more closely tomorrow.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/configuring_and_managing_virtualization/configuring-virtual-machine-network-connections_configuring-and-managing-virtualization

There's no mention of openvswitch anywhere in that document. I am aware of XenServer and XCP-ng uses it by default. So its possible RHEL just prefers using macvlan/macvtap instead of openvswitch.

Wow ... it's been a month since I asked this!

From the responses, I guess there is a third little piece of this, in RMM and also how much I want control over my user machines.

In many ways, I was almost considering them all just having fresh installs, like they went out and bought a new laptop from Best Buy, and now want to attach to Office365.

The files will be there, they can collaborate. Do I really need to provide anything else?

We are currently using an RMM solution still so I can run scripts and assist remotely if needed.

Correction meant to say EXT3

@gjacobse said in Power shell syntax: Get- Map drives:

@Obsolesce said in Power shell syntax: Get- Map drives:

Why not do it via Group Policy or other similar means?

It's the state - I don't have access to GP... or much really - and the few scripts I have made, I pulled out since they 'refuse' to use anything with logic...

Then why bother with it?

@WrCombs said in Unifi AP on unrouted Network - Issues:

@WrCombs said in Unifi AP on unrouted Network - Issues:

How do you Export/Import Sites into new controllers ?

Never mind I figured it out.

I went into "site" settings , In the bottom left corner there was "export site" option.
Click on that, download the backup file,
create network on other Controller, then import site.
You can then (if you have a domain set up) migrate the AP to that Controller.

I didn't have this issue; I installed and it's working properly, can view, and edit the AP .

@scottalanmiller said in UNMS Cloud:

@JaredBusch said in UNMS Cloud:

Nothing is free, so I am curious, and have not been able to find, what they get out of this.

Loss leader. Netgear already does this, so lacking it meant being behind their competition.

I know you love Netgear, but they are not competition to me. I never consider them.

Craziest thing...that program called CONFIG TOOL just decided to discover everything...was able to find cameras, give them a proper IP, used the IP of the network card on the Milestone system as GATEWAY address and I am halfway through this converstion now... 🙂

Well - it looks like we have to issue an update about this.

Unfortunately, 4.skyetel.com clashes with some systems that do not support numerical values in DNS entries (yes, thats a real thing) and so please use na.skyetel.com instead. We will be sending out an email tomorrow asking everyone to please use na.skyetel.com instead of 4.skyetel.com. Sorry for the headache guys.

Will get him to keep an eye for clearance sales, and offers.

@Dashrender said in Microsoft Licensing Verification Program: Is this a SAM Audit?:

@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Licensing Verification Program: Is this a SAM Audit?:

Just got a customer with this Microsoft Licensing Verification Program / MLVP audit request. It sure looks like a SAM Audit. It comes from one of those "not really Microsoft" v- email addresses that are third party scammers traditionally paying MS for an email address. They never say that the audit is a SAM or voluntary, but the terms that they use and the email address don't match anything legit and look just like the scams that MS has been in on for years.

Anyone seen this new terminology yet? Is this the new name now that MS customers have caught on to the SAM scam and now need a new name so that it isn't so obvious?

Interesting - I don't recall seeing the word voluntary on any SAM letter I ever got.

I used to see them, but looks like it's not required in the form.

So, no idea what I had installed that required python2-lxml

I removed it and the upgrade is proceeding as normal.

Are you aware of the "UAC fix for unknown applications"? This may help you in a matter of 10 minutes. Worth a look, I suppose. Not that many years ago, I used to have to make CC Plus work on Windows 7 for a few customers. It was almost fun! 🙂 Haven't worked on forcing CC to run in a while....

Link to app:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/yongrhee/download-application-compatibility-toolkit-act-for-windows-10

Please note, ver 5 is now longer current, but the instructions are the same.

The crude instructions I follow:

I decided to give this a whirl, and I can say first hand that it does work. There’s just one thing…it’s not quite as simple as a few clicks. The first time you go through the instructions it will probably take 3 or 4 minutes, but each program you setup after that will probably take just a minute since you’ll understand what needs to be done. I’ve taken the liberty of modifying their directions ever so slightly to make them a bit easier, and I’ve also thrown in a few screenshots to guide you along the way: 1.Download (10.9MB) and install the Application Compatibility Toolkit. 2.In the Start menu find the shortcut Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0\Compatibility Administrator. Right click it and click Run as administrator. 3.In the left hand pane, right-click on the database under Custom Databases and select Create New, and select Application Fix. Vista UAC Application Fix 4.Enter the name and other details of the application you want to alter behavior on and then browse to it to select it. Click Next. 5.Click Next until you are in the Compatibility Fixes screen. On the Compatibility Fixes screen, find the item RunAsInvoker, and check it. Click Next and then Finish. 6.Select File -> Save As. Save the file as a filename.SDB type file in a directory you will easily find it. Then copy the <filename>.sdb file to the Vista computer you want to alter the elevation prompt behavior on. 7.Click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories. Right click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator. 8.Run the command below: sdbinst <path>\<filename>.sdb For example, if you saved the .SDB file as abc.sdb in the c:\Windows folder, the command should be like this: sdbinst c:\windows\abc.sdb It should prompt: Installation of <name> complete. Vista UAC Command Prompt I’m *guessing* that, before saving the file in Step 6, you can go back to Step 3 and add more “Application Fixes” to the database. That way you can execute just one database in the remaining steps.

@black3dynamite said in Dell PERC H740 with SSDs?:

@biggen said in Dell PERC H740 with SSDs?:

@scottalanmiller Just not as commonplace to find enterprise gear to whitebox with. Where are you looking for enterprise motherboards?

Supermicro

These are definitely the 800lb gorillas of enterprise whiteboxing.

@travisdh1 did you have any luck debugging the timeout/failure?

Thanks all!

Yup, I know about TechSoup, I didn't think they sell O365 licenses directly though, I thought they just direct you to MS as you can get the MS donations directly from MS.

Basically, thinking a little more about what I need to accomplish in 365:

Keep all emails for 2 years (company policy). Currently we are using a 3rd party filter/archive service for our on-prem Exchange server. I was thinking if we moved to Exchange Online we could possibly get rid of that and use MS services? I know there are retention policies that can be configured, but wasn't sure what level of 365 is required.

We have small departments, 1 handles applications that contain SSNs, the other handles payment processing (so they touch CC numbers, although our policy is not to store these - we use a 3rd party payment processor). I'd want to protect the data these users handle by making sure it's not leaked or shared accidentally while still allowing them to make use of the collaboration tools like Teams and Sharepoint. I'd also like to restrict any such data from being downloaded to a home device (editing in the web app version of Office would be ok). That's why I figured I'd need something more than E3.

Thank you all again!