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@LilAng doesn't really have a computer at home, either!

@eddiejennings said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?:

@bigbear said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?:

@tim_g said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?:

@eddiejennings said in Who needs an MSDN subscription?:

This thread is inspired by the never-ending thread about licensing and replication in I Can't Even.

I know that developers who use Visual Studio probably get their Visual Studio license through an MSDN subscription. One benefit of the subscription is that you're allowed to spin up Windows servers, SQL servers, etc., for development and testing.

For organizations who have full-on lab environments or IT staff who need to spin up a VM Windows Server VM here and there to try something out, how do they stay in compliance? Do they also buy a MSDN subscription (perhaps MSDN platforms) for the IT staff member? Do they have their IT staff continually use Windows server 180-day evaluation licenses? Do they turn a blind eye as they give their IT staff activation keys from a dev's MSDN subscription and hope their organization is never audited?

MSDN subscriptions are user-specific. To stay in compliance, every person who wants to take advantage of an MSDN benefit, will need to have their own MSDN subscription. They cannot be shared. Any VM spun up under the MSDN subscription cannot be used in any way by another person.

Ah, didnt read the full OP post and assumed it was for him.

However Bizspark MSDN does provide startup organizations with multiple user accounts all for internal use and testing. It is not for production or internal use.

Yeah. It's not for me. I was just musing about the test VMs and such we need to spin up as IT, and I was curious how larger businesses or businesses with test labs license those test Windows VMs. I figured MSDN platforms wasn't used because of [see the above responses], but perhaps truth was going to be stranger than fiction.

Larger is different. Once you are of any size you have enterprise agreements and your labs are just covered.

@Kimberley-Paessler said in How do you test your website:

@DustinB3403 If you (or your customer) are using PRTG, you could use the "cloud ping" and "cloud http" sensors to monitor reachability from around the world. Those sensors will try to reach your website from 5 different AWS data centers, and will report on reachability and response time from each of those data centers. If something goes wrong, you can get an alert, so you know you need to react. The free version of PRTG will let you run 5 cloud http and 5 cloud ping sensors.

If that's not enough, check out services such as https://www.site24x7.com/, which provide similar ongoing monitoring on a larger scale.

If a one-time or manual test is enough, check out services like https://tools.pingdom.com/ or https://www.webpagetest.org/, which are free and don't require any setup on your side, but only provide a snapshot of up/down at the time you try them.

Along with pingdom, we usually use https://geopeeker.com which also gives a snapshot from multiple locations

@IRJ said in Need someone with a Blackberry OS 10 device to let me know if a website looks decent or not:

I am assuming the only reason you would buy a BB is for integration with BES, but since they are now running android is there any difference between a BB and another android device when it comes to MDM?

Doubt it. It's probably just branding.

As to a two-sever pool, interestingly Ive been working with SC at HA-Lizard over the last few weeks and we've come up with a better way (I think) to support a two-server pool. I've done a lot of torture testing and think there will be a more robust implementation in the near future. I'm particularly interested in that we now have several two-server pools and there is no need to expand just for the sake of supporting HA. Stay tuned for more news on this! For HA to work, you'd still of course need shared pool storage.

https://discussions.citrix.com/topic/381470-two-node-pool-options-with-direct-attached-storage/?p=1943606

@DustinB3403 said:

Can I just plug this bootable into any old desktop and see if it'll light up? Should I expect any issues?

Can you, yes 🙂 It won't damage anything. Will it work? Not likely. You can't do this with any other OS or hypervisor, you can't do it with Xen either. That's why Xen has to be installed rather than there just being an image that you run. The installation process is the process of customizing it for your hardware.

@antonit said:

@dafyre Yeah, it was pretty intense. It really digs deep to see if you have the knowledge needed. I just did a test on my own accord and was given the following:

Apache Self Assess

101: Baseline Implementation
Installation and Global Configuration

Install the Apache HTTPD Webserver via the distro's packaging system (yum/apt) Ensure that the following modules are installed and enabled: Mod Rewrite Mod SSL Configure the server admin email address (globally) [email protected] Configure the server so that its signature is displayed on server-generated pages (such as 500 Internal Server Error), and that it also includes the server admin's email address in the signature. Enable the server status page at http://localhost/server-statusaccessible only by the host 127.0.0.1
Users, Groups, and Files Create the system group webadmin Create the system user don.draper with the following credentials: Password: IXnMe2Fp Home Directory: /home/don.draper Primary Group: don.draper Secondary Group: webadmin Create the system user peggy.olson: Password: 3Hx1M8aS Home Directory: /home/peggy.olson Primary Group: peggy.olson Secondary Group: webadmin Create the directory /var/www/vhosts, with the following ownership and permissions: User Ownership / Permissions: root / Read, Write, and Execute Group Ownership / Permissions: webadmin / Read, Write, and Execute. Other Permissions: Everyone should have Read, and Execute permissions. All future files and directories created in the /var/www/vhosts directory should automatically inherit the same group ownership of webadmin.
Virtual Hosts
Configure the web server for the following virtual hosts, and specifications.
VirtualHost 1 Server Name: site1.104.239.228.184.xip.io Document Root: /var/www/vhosts/site1/htdocs Access Log: /var/www/vhosts/site1/logs/access.log Error Log: /var/www/vhosts/site1/logs/error.log Copy the content of this virtual host from /root/files/site1 to the document root
Ensure that the proper content is returned when this site is accessed athttp://site1.104.239.228.184.xip.io, and there are no errors in the logs.
VirtualHost 2 Server Name: site2.104.239.228.184.xip.io The virtual host should also respond to the following aliases: www.site2.104.239.228.184.xip.io web.site2.104.239.228.184.xip.io Document Root: /var/www/vhosts/site2/htdocs Access Log: /var/www/vhosts/site2/logs/access.log Error Log: /var/www/vhosts/site2/logs/error.log Copy the content of this virtual host from /root/files/site2 to the document root Configure Apache with any necessary PHP modules required for the site
Ensure that the proper content is returned when this site is accessed athttp://site2.104.239.228.184.xip.io, that the aliases for www and webreturn the proper content, and there are no errors in the logs.
VirtualHost 3 Document Root: /var/www/vhosts/site3/htdocs Access Log: /var/www/vhosts/site3/logs/access.log for HTTP and/var/www/vhosts/site3/logs/ssl_access.log for HTTPS Error Log: /var/www/vhosts/site3/logs/error.log for HTTP and/var/www/vhosts/site3/logs/ssl_error.log for HTTPS Copy the content of this virtual host from /root/files/site3 to the document root Restrict access to this site with HTTP Basic Auth, with the user namewebadmin and password 4v2JaLuQ Configure the document root so that a directory listing is displayed in the browser, rather than an index page. Configure this site to respond on both HTTP, and HTTPS standard ports, however all traffic that comes through over HTTP must be redirected to the HTTPS virtual host. Any self-signed certificate will do.
Ensure that the proper content is returned when this site is accessed athttps://site3.104.239.228.184.xip.io and that the traffic is redirected when accessing http://site3.104.239.228.184.xip.io. No content should be returned without proper authentication as mentioned above, and there are no errors in the logs.

Was given 3 hours to finish, and unfortunately I did not. Looks like I have some studying to do 😛

Yeah, that sounds like the site I was on. It's cool, because you can use any tool at your disposal to help you get things done. Google is your friend, lol.

For comparison here is a session going over OpenVPN to another site with an 80/5 cable modem service.

Maxing under 8mbit on average.

C:\iperf3>iperf3 -c 10.202.10.49 -p 9676 -F office2013.iso -t 120 -P 4 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ 4] 113.01-114.01 sec 128 KBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [ 7] 113.01-114.01 sec 384 KBytes 3.15 Mbits/sec [ 10] 113.01-114.01 sec 256 KBytes 2.10 Mbits/sec [ 13] 113.01-114.01 sec 128 KBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [SUM] 113.01-114.01 sec 896 KBytes 7.35 Mbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ 4] 114.01-115.00 sec 256 KBytes 2.10 Mbits/sec [ 7] 114.01-115.00 sec 384 KBytes 3.15 Mbits/sec [ 10] 114.01-115.00 sec 256 KBytes 2.10 Mbits/sec [ 13] 114.01-115.00 sec 256 KBytes 2.10 Mbits/sec [SUM] 114.01-115.00 sec 1.12 MBytes 9.45 Mbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ 4] 115.00-116.00 sec 256 KBytes 2.10 Mbits/sec [ 7] 115.00-116.00 sec 512 KBytes 4.20 Mbits/sec [ 10] 115.00-116.00 sec 128 KBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [ 13] 115.00-116.00 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec [SUM] 115.00-116.00 sec 896 KBytes 7.35 Mbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ 4] 116.00-117.00 sec 256 KBytes 2.10 Mbits/sec [ 7] 116.00-117.00 sec 384 KBytes 3.15 Mbits/sec [ 10] 116.00-117.00 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec [ 13] 116.00-117.00 sec 0.00 Bytes 0.00 bits/sec [SUM] 116.00-117.00 sec 640 KBytes 5.25 Mbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ 4] 117.00-118.01 sec 256 KBytes 2.07 Mbits/sec [ 7] 117.00-118.01 sec 384 KBytes 3.10 Mbits/sec [ 10] 117.00-118.01 sec 128 KBytes 1.03 Mbits/sec [ 13] 117.00-118.01 sec 128 KBytes 1.03 Mbits/sec [SUM] 117.00-118.01 sec 896 KBytes 7.24 Mbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ 4] 118.01-119.01 sec 384 KBytes 3.15 Mbits/sec [ 7] 118.01-119.01 sec 384 KBytes 3.15 Mbits/sec [ 10] 118.01-119.01 sec 128 KBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [ 13] 118.01-119.01 sec 128 KBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [SUM] 118.01-119.01 sec 1.00 MBytes 8.40 Mbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ 4] 119.01-120.01 sec 384 KBytes 3.15 Mbits/sec [ 7] 119.01-120.01 sec 128 KBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [ 10] 119.01-120.01 sec 128 KBytes 1.05 Mbits/sec [ 13] 119.01-120.01 sec 256 KBytes 2.10 Mbits/sec [SUM] 119.01-120.01 sec 896 KBytes 7.35 Mbits/sec - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 4] 0.00-120.01 sec 27.5 MBytes 1.92 Mbits/sec sender Sent 27.5 MByte / 1.39 GByte (1%) of office2013.iso [ 4] 0.00-120.01 sec 27.3 MBytes 1.91 Mbits/sec receiver [ 7] 0.00-120.01 sec 30.1 MBytes 2.11 Mbits/sec sender Sent 30.1 MByte / 1.39 GByte (2%) of office2013.iso [ 7] 0.00-120.01 sec 30.0 MBytes 2.09 Mbits/sec receiver [ 10] 0.00-120.01 sec 25.6 MBytes 1.79 Mbits/sec sender Sent 25.6 MByte / 1.39 GByte (1%) of office2013.iso [ 10] 0.00-120.01 sec 25.5 MBytes 1.78 Mbits/sec receiver [ 13] 0.00-120.01 sec 25.1 MBytes 1.76 Mbits/sec sender Sent 25.1 MByte / 1.39 GByte (1%) of office2013.iso [ 13] 0.00-120.01 sec 24.9 MBytes 1.74 Mbits/sec receiver [SUM] 0.00-120.01 sec 108 MBytes 7.58 Mbits/sec sender [SUM] 0.00-120.01 sec 108 MBytes 7.53 Mbits/sec receiver iperf Done.

that's what the Skype chat is for!