@Obsolesce said in Is It Really Encrypted When the Key Is Public and Automatic?:

That's like saying your data is encrypted with BitLocker or FileVault, but anyone with BitLocker or FileVault respectively can will automatically decrypt your data without even trying.

FTFY

@Dashrender said in SuiteCRM - Followup impressions:

Did anyone use it at all during the 'trial' period? or did end users just at it and walk away?

I love the fact that the company at least was willing to try something - then move to something else.. instead of just being stuck.. it might be costly to do so.. but at least they are working toward a solution they will hopefully like and works well for them.

Yes. It was used by a trial group. But then afterwards, it was never a) forced or b) even pushed on the main users.

@Emad-R said in Researching Mailing List Email Server Options:

So you dont want the SMTP server part, just the sending to many and if a user opt to be removed that will auto reflect ...

Either way. If we handle the SMTP that's fine. If we don't, that's fine.

@scottalanmiller That's one hell of a run on sentence! Do you actually speak without pausing or breathing? 🙂

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

@Kelly said in Software Catalog:

@coliver said in Software Catalog:

For the opensource side. https://www.opsi.org may have something of what you're looking at. I tested it out in the past but SCCM fit with what the management was looking to do.

Just to be clear, I'm not as concerned about the deployment side of things (yet). Do how much is opsi and SCCM: Software Center oriented around end users and how much around administration? I know it should be part of the fabric. I'm just trying to modernize some processes that have been enshrined in the halls of familiarity, and this is the first step for us.

Software Center is almost 100% end user oriented. If you are looking to automate this without hands you wouldn't even expose the interface. I think Opsi is the opposite. I don't think, if I recall, it has any real means for the end users to request applications outside of a really bad web interface... even then I may be mistaken.

That's good to know. I had only done some surface digging into Software Center, and then when I hit the opsi website it looked as you describe it now, so I wanted to be sure that I was communicating clearly. Thanks.

@scottalanmiller said in Researching OpenDental Software:

So in the above directions, where the heck are we supposed to get the "blank" database from? WTF

From what that page I looked sounded like when you install the trial it stuff up the schema.

@JasGot said in A question for the SMB owners and operators here:

In-house software. We developed it in 2002 and maintain it to keep up with our needs.

I think that for MSPs that that tends to make the most sense. Our needs tend to be highly unique, and not that difficult to fill.

Been using Xero for a while. No issues. It works better than QB Online. I tried it.

Dragging and dropping todos between notebooks - I really like that

@pmoncho said in The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation:

@scottalanmiller said in The Hidden Cost of Licensing Windows Server - Activation:

Just looking at this with a customer that just put in a new Windows 2019 server. The machine was purchased with a volume license agreement for Server 2019 Standard. Everything should be super easy, in theory. Problem is, license key from the volume license center doesn't work. We spend a bit of time trying to get this to apply, but no luck.

I have run into a similar situation this morning and not being able activate the VLSC liscense.

Before I decided to call MS and getting frustrated, I was able to activate from an elevated command line.
cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk <product key>

Throwing this out here in case someone comes along this post at a later time.

I've heard that that often works. We had tried that in our case and it had failed.