We are just ending this project. The solution they chose was Zerto. We have gear in a colo with an EPL that allows for replication in real time. In the event of a disaster. I enable networking on my vms, change external DNS and we are good to go.

@thwr You could also just rent another identical server with Hetzner. When you have moved everything over you can terminate the first one. It unlikely that the second server has problems as well.

Will only cost you roughly 200 euros to do it.

OVHcloud has also dedicated game servers. https://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/game/prices/
I think they are in the same market segment as Hetzner.

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - device duplicating:

We get these a lot, but mostly from either major system changes or someone accidentally running the installer more than once.

OK good to know. thanks!

The yealink docs just don't say.

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At this point, I'm left assuming they support mode A and Mode B.

@Kyle said in Remote Hands for Vet Clinic in Oklahoma City Right Now - Jan 29, 2020:

@scottalanmiller I'm downtown and it's a 20min drive depending on which clinic in Yukon.

Turns out... it's Kyle's own vet!

@popester said in Password check services.:

@s-hackleman said in Password check services.:

I don't want to be that guy, but you could take the time you are spending worrying about this, and just change all of your passwords and be done with it.

The question was more for an understanding of "Could this be an issue?" @Dashrender I have been using lastpass for the past 3 years. I irritate everyone that needs to type in a password I have issued, because they are 20 char upper, lower, symbol mix. I wanted to ping the group and see if people who ask me if it is smart and legit so I could say yay or nay with confidence.
That's all. 🙂

Of course - I understand why you asked about the service - normal users might ask you, you want to have an understanding why you do or don't recommend one or more of them.

@black3dynamite said in VMWare - VM Boot Problems:

Is this a UEFI or BIOS install? [...]

Good points, but shouldn't be a problem - as long as no one freaked around with the VM's config.

@bnrstnr said in Deploying NodeBB 1.11.1 on CentOS 7 with MongoDB 4:

What specific reasons for the CentOS recommendation here?

Revisiting a little...

Basically the three main Linux releases supported by MongoDB are CentOS, Ubuntu, and Debian. CentOS and Ubuntu here are mostly six of one. But CentOS 8 Stream I like a little more than the Ubuntu LTS options. We use Ubuntu a little more often than CentOS today, but in this case I feel that CentOS is slightly better for us. But really, all three options are perfectly fine. We just have to pick one.

@Dashrender said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key:

@JaredBusch said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key:

@Dashrender said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key:

@JaredBusch said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key:

@Dashrender said in Finding Windows 10 Product Key:

should prompt for this anyhow.

should not

fixed

Makes a small difference in the meaning.

You're absolutely right - I was just typing too fast...

FTFY

@pirho99 said in ISP & VoIP woes:

If someone in the neighborhood is using MoCA, you could put this adapter on the business' incoming cable line, before the first split or amplifier. It would block their interference. link

This won't make any difference though - because the signal has to leave the building, i.e. go where the line noise is, to get out to the rest of the world... so the problem would still be there.

We use Asana.

@manxam said in MeshCentral 2 - unknown device michael-7-x64:

This is an AV sandbox performing a scan and run on this application.
Happens regularly when deploying various remote management tools to devices with AV.
You'll get some Microsoft VMs, Bitdefender automated machines, Kaspersky, etc...

It looks as though this SPECIFIC device name is from Bitdefender's sandbox :
https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/c8z1kl/bitdefenders_sandbox_just_ran_my_screenconnectcw/

Nice find!

@coliver said in Can bitwarden have multiple accounts:

One of the other ways I resolved this in the past was have the browser plugin for the one I use the most and the desktop app logged into the one I use the least. You just miss out on autofill if you use the desktop app.

I do this now. My work stuff is in KeePass on my office desktop, and my personal stuff / work web resources that don't tie back to the office network are in Bitwarden.

In a case like this, it can be hard if you are new to helpdesk or feel like you want to trust your coworkers to be professional and to feed you all relevant information that they could have. But they rarely do, even other IT people. The nature of end users (the coworker becomes an end user in this scenario) is to hold back the info, or to attempt to "interpret" it through their vision of what's happening.

But here is the problem: the person stating the problem (that they cannot solve) is the one person we are sure can't tell us everything that we need to know because, if they could, they'd be able to solve the problem (in most cases.) So the person who most wants to "filter" what is said, is the person least likely to be able to determine what a good filter is. Even a well meaning person in that position isn't useful.

@Ylian
Any thoughts on why my system is demanding having the "cert": line added?

I did do a startup based on the install instructions

node ./node_modules/meshcentral --cert example.servername.com

Does that put the hostname somewhere other than the config.json?

@Pete-S said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

@Dashrender said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

@scottalanmiller said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

@Pete-S said in How does name resolution work in AD?:

I was wondering how it works because we see a problem where a couple of Win 10 clients can resolve all the internal Windows servers names, but not the statically assigned names of linux servers.

I thought if the name resolution works over different mechanisms and uses different ports it could be an firewall or L3 switch somewhere that has been misconfigured.

This is common in situations where Linux is not given an opportunity to auto-update the DNS entries, no one makes them manually, and they are not joined to AD.

Exactly - have you or anyone else added these servers to AD's DNS?

They have been added manually. The name of the service is also not the name as the server. So if a webserver is abc001.company.com the name in the DNS that will send you to that server might be logistics.company.com.

if you're being sent to logistics, that's the entry that must be in DNS.. you can have as many entries as are needed for a single server.
each name is it's own entry.

@Dashrender said in DVX 8000 IP PBX CONFIGURATION:

Awesome to see more telephoney stuff show up.

Bad telephony, but meh. all good.

thanks