@brandon220 said in Voip.ms Fax To Email:

@JaredBusch What I'm referring to is that I can take a physical piece of paper that I want to fax to a Xerox copier (in this instance). Instead of using the built-in fax machine function (no phone line attached) I can "email" the document to [email protected] and in the subject line is the actual fax number. When I email from the copier, it comes out as a fax to the receiver. Not as an email. The receiver has no idea that it did not come from a conventional fax machine.

Yeah, this can definitely be done - but man, changing the subject line from a Xerox machine is generally a HUGE PITA - no normal user wants to do that ever.

@jaredbusch said in Fax: Sangoma FAXstation:

@bigbear there was a lot of random speculation about the service earlier. In the thread. The entire concept of it generating an email blows my mind. No where does it ever state anything like that happened @scottalanmiller

It is poorly explained all around in their marketing. I saw it for years and forget how I ended up trying it. It was also horribly named before as FachsBachs or something crazy. FaxxBochs.

@coliver said in Fax Service:

@dashrender said in Fax Service:

@coliver said in Fax Service:

@dashrender said in Fax Service:

@eddiejennings said in Fax Service:

I'm testing voip.ms's email to fax service. One immediate challenge is training users to send it plaintext E-mails or get them to delete all of the images from our default E-mail signature. >(

Is it possible to have the email server strip that when sending to a specific address?

Depends on the email server. Office365/Exchange Online can be configured to forced to send plain text emails to specific addresses IIRC.

What happens in those cases when you have a PDF or a Word doc attached?

Attachments would still be attached I believe. Could be wrong never had to do it.

I can speak only to RingCentral's service, but if you have text in the body, whether it be a signature or logo or anything in the body, it will try to print that extra text out on a separate page in the fax. Looks messy. We initiate ours through email and we have a fax cover letter template that users can fill out electronically and then also attach whatever they're wanting to send, preferably in PDF format. So generally it's sent to ### @ rcfax.com, and then 2 attachments, one for cover letter and one for the actual item being sent. Putting something in the subject line messes things up as well.

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@dashrender said in IT Environment update questions:

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@dashrender said in Greenfield (OK not really) setup questions:

Additional options: use something like Salt to create network mappings for the computers.

I am interested to hear about:

"Salt to create network mappings for the computers."

Since salt works only when minions connected, and for reason my NAS and windows clients loses the connections every 2-3 days and requires the user to re-input username/password (maybe related to Windows limtiation)

how will you effectively use salt for that purpose ? just put script to run at user login ? any other neat ways to do this ?

Salt is meant to run continuously. For example, mine run every 10 minutes or so to verify the environment. So if a mapped drive failed, it would be fixed again in a few minutes.

The same goes for GPO. It refreshes every 15 min I think by default.

Every 90 minutes with a 30 minute flux. So every 60-120 minutes for GPO.

@BRRABill said in Comparing Fax and Email Security:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing Fax and Email Security:

@BRRABill said in Comparing Fax and Email Security:

P.S. Are you getting paid by some strange company to use the word "corruption" this week?

Calling it as it is. The world is a very corrupt place and most of it happens because society conditions us to feel like it is acceptable.

And there it is ... AGAIN! 🙂

Society hasn't changed, it's just how it is.

@Jason said in Why Faxing is Less Secure Than Email:

@scottalanmiller said in Why Faxing is Less Secure Than Email:

@BRRABill said in Why Faxing is Less Secure Than Email:

@Dashrender said

Tapping a phone line once it reaches a neighborhood hub is anything is trival I'm guessing. But the main point that I want to point out here is that tapping a phoneline requires physical access to something, somewhere in the path to make happen. This requirement makes the cost significantly higher than trying to get access to say email, through the previously mentioned malware attack.

Pretty easy to get access to phone lines if you are in any sort of business complex.

Even if you are not. In rural areas it is especially easy to tap lines. There is even equipment that allows you to tap the lines without climbing the poles, you can do it, touchless, from the ground!

Our buliding here is in a rural area.. but because we are the biggest company around Verizon brought the whole trunk of lines multiplex in to our buliding incase we need all of them we would have them.. there are resturants, stores, and urgent medical care centers all around us. all of their analog lines both phone and fax come into our building and we could listen in from the NID

Having worked as an alarm installer for 7+ years I too know how common this is.

I wander into the phone room and start clipping on to various pairs looking for the # I am supposed to use and end up finding all kinds of things that are not part of the company I am there working for.

@hubtechagain said:

Cause it's what they've got scott

@scottalanmiller said:

That's an odd answer - especially given they are apparently introducing a new system with Hylafax.

That is not an odd answer. They have an existing VM infrastructure. Normal business do not look to change core infrastructure every time they look at adding a new VM for some task or another.

Asking if there is any compatibility issues is a very normal thing that has to be done with ANY system.

Answer the question that was asked without tossing in craptastical bias.

Want to toss in the rest of your opinion? Great! Don't lead with it.

Back to the OP's question. I have never ran any type of 2008R2 Hyper-V servers. I know that Hyper-V prior to 2012 had many issues compared to ESXi. Which is why all of my clients started out on the virtualization path using VMWare.

Good timing...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28838661

@NetworkNerd said:

@Hubtech said:

I read that....but i want a client. we want more we want more.

I thought I read somewhere there was a client that worked with Hylafax, but I'd rather punch a wall and break my hand than try messing with it.

baha good luck with that! yes, i have tried a couple oft these clients to no avail.

@NetworkNerd said:

This was something @FiyaFly and I worked on together, and I believe he was the one who fully resolved it by changing the baud rate settings on the physical fax machine. But I can say for a fact that this setup worked and is still working today at the site in question.

good job 🙂