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!

@scottalanmiller I know, right.

@Romualadas said in Error After Firebird 2.5.9 Update:

@scottalanmiller
Tried your link. Results:
yum install /tmp/FirebirdSS-2.5.9.rpm
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Examining /tmp/FirebirdSS-2.5.9.rpm: FirebirdSS-2.5.9.27139-0.amd64
Cannot add package /tmp/FirebirdSS-2.5.9.rpm to transaction. Not a compatible architecture: amd64
Error: Nothing to do
Server architecture:
Kernel and CPU Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 on x86_64

Looks like their packages are bad at this point. You definitely have the right, matching architecture there. Seems that they are having a lot of problems these days. It's such a niche product, I'd be super wary of every using it in production or any software the depends on it. Using it as an option, sure, but requiring it I'd consider a non-starter. Absolutely no one supports it.

@StorageNinja said in RAID rebuild times 16TB drive:

@scottalanmiller said in RAID rebuild times 16TB drive:

Its a system, not an IO, bottleneck typically. Especially with RAID 6. Its math that runs on a single thread.

Distributed storage systems with per object raid FTW here. If I have every VMDK running it's own rebuild process (vSAN) or every individual LUN/CPG (how Compellent or 3PAR do it) then a given drive failing is a giant party across all of the drives in the cluster/system. (Also how the fancy erasure code array systems run this).

Yeah, that's RAIN and that basically solves everything 🙂

Pretty cool. I’ll have to try it and see how it goes.

I’ve been using Unbound for several years running on a Raspberry Pi and using a custom black list. Love not having to run ad blockers on each computer browser since it’s all taken care of with Unbound.

Based on the documentation it does not work in the local rocketchat app
https://rocket.chat/docs/user-guides/voice-and-video-conferencing/

@travisdh1 said in Sophos XG SQL Injection Vulnerability KB135412:

@dbeato said in Sophos XG SQL Injection Vulnerability KB135412:

Just in case you have a Sophos XG firewall and need to know about this

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/135412

@travisdh1 just in case you got that email too.

Started a new job last Monday, so nope. Happy, happy, happy!

Congrats!!

This is not an Asterisk error, so much as a FreePBX error.
More information needed.

A new high power bill... 😉

If you install using the above method, it never tells you the random password assigned to your management interface. But no fear, there is a tool that sets that for you and is super, duper easy.

cd /usr/local/lsws/admin/misc sh admpass.sh

It is interactive. And voila.