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@rojoloco said in A little information doesn't go a long way:

This pic helps sum it up... Just substitute forum names for the years.

Thickness of skin can be measured in thickness of hair, according to the pic. Those hair follicles run deep in 97!

Why can it not be hyperconverged? How is that so explicitly stated when it could possibly be exactly what is needed?

That's like the boss saying "we don't want exactly what we need, even if it's cost effective. We want something else."

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@minion-queen said in Office 365 Account Deleted While Using:

Mine went down too. So an old MS Concierge person that connected O365 to AD 2 years ago that was"disconnected" ... wasn't.

We are both back up now. WHAT A FREAKING PAIN!

So were any of the accounts using AD SYnchronization by any chance?

Yeah and we deleted some workloads on Azure today I will let you guess what one of them was...

So user caused issue.

Did no one check that AD sync was still active?

Well The Concierge person did something funky back then (remember scott's issues from way way back?), and we thought that the disconnection was done. But they had to repair things on their side still for both our accounts (I didn't have issues last time but I did today), but no one else on the team did. So weird.

Well, I didn't say you caused the issue.

Failure to verify, but something that should not have needed to be verified.

Same issue I had with a Dell tech that replaced a drive and rebuilt an array for me 5 years ago. I found out 2 years ago that he rebuilt it as a RAID0 .......

Lmao!

...I don't have anything constructive to say. That's just funny as shit.

Trust, but verify....

RAID0 though. I am at a loss for words.

There are many worst things like not having backups

Who needs backups when you have RAID... backups are overrated. :smirking_face:

Be careful saying that, some people will believe that lol...

I said it sarcastically, but I've read people's replies on one forum stating that. I laughed at first, but then was mortified when I found out they were serious.

Just ran into this today. Thanks for posting that; cut troubleshooting time much shorter.

Edit: Also thanks to dbeato for linking this thread. I knew I read this the other day, but couldn't remember on which forum.

I thought I could go one single year without an audit. Last year was a very lengthy HIPAA audit (done alone), and to end February I'm now starting a PCI audit for a hospital that now accepts payments online... Which means they have changed categories.

Kill me.

@nashbrydges said in Synology NAS - Can't delete:

If you're using rsync to sync the 2 NASs then there's no air gap. The systems are obviously networked together. What about using Backup Copy from Veeam instead of rsync. Just wondering is rsync may be the cause here.

I'll probably go that route for long term. I love rsync but I may keep it only for specific cases.

It is the kind of content consumption. Many do not game, develop in Adobe/AutoDesk/ProTools/etc. I would say the masses do not, and if they do much of it is probably web services. The end user PC is shrinking.

For business, I store nothing on my actual computer and most of my software is FOSS. If my drive died... I don't care. I connect to LOB/MGMT/TS systems for whatever I need. For my consumer life... I have Spiceworks and MangoLassi along with research. That's about it.

The device is becoming irrelevant, or is already irrelevant at this point. It's about the platform, and that platform is no longer the device's OS, or is nearly no longer the OS. People want cheap, mobile devices that are responsive; ones that can jack them into the world to deliver the best UX for their individual data consumption/delivery.

Considering what possibilities might be out there for handling lots of client certificates a little more effectively. Here's the goals:

• Manage hundreds of certs in a multi-tenant console.
• Automate scheduled renewals wherever possible.
• Not completely lock the client into a CSP model. I want them to be able to easily walk away from us if they choose. This might mean purchasing certs from somewhere like GoDaddy if they choose to leave, but I want to make the process as easy as possible.

I've been looking at GlobalSign. I know they are geared more toward CDN, but not sure if their easy management could fit into what I'm looking for.

@scottalanmiller said in Certifications in the toilet:

@irj said in Certifications in the toilet:

Good thing toilets never back up...

Neither do those servers!

Actually... I need to edit my content. They don't have backups, and never have. Ever. They do use "Previous Versions" aka volume shadow copies; which of course are NOT backups. They should know... because when they got hit with cryptoware last year, the first thing the infection did was -you guessed it- delete their shadow copies.

I have an infrastructure upgrade project near Santa Cruz that is going to require some cat5e/6 data cabling. Probably only 20-40 home runs, so a very small job.

Anyone know of a reputable company in the area? Going to be resorting to web searching and reviews otherwise.

https://unifi-nanohd.ubnt.com/

New project coming up, and was going through the wireless portion. This is apparently out for pre-order. Doesn't come with PoE (I have a huge box of them already as they are typically unneeded), and apparently still post the same results as the larger variant.

+10 horsepower if you get the camo skin.

Re: Unifi WAP nanoHD - pre order

I was just thinking about WiFi improvements with Ubiquiti over the last couple years. They've really come a long way.

This question is directed at those who have to write off Ubiquiti because of certain lacking features; whether that is for enterprise size environments or not (thousands of users).

Anymore, Ubiquiti allows for multiple SSIDs, captive portal, multi-radio, RADIUS, high AP count per controller, reporting (maybe a little limited), and zero hand off... what else is missing for some decision makers other than level of support?

Veeam to Synology, Synology to BackBlaze B2 or Wasabi. Works great and is cheap ($5/TB/month)

@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:

@bbigford said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:

@dbeato said in Synology-Storage Manager less than File Station:

Are there any backups of SQL Databases on this?

Yes. Some Veeam backups, and some SQL agents using this repository to run their backups (soon to be deprecated agents because of a new Veeam install).

I had the same experience with SQL Backups totally a high amount of space but only small space on the sinology.

What did you find was the reason? Because it's been driving me f*cking crazy.

Figured it out. Some backup software can create sparse files. File Station is reporting the size of data including sparse size, but Storage Manager is reporting only actual data on disk.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

It's I suppose believable that there are parents that feel this way, but the student/child? Wow - can we say brain washed?

So I blame this on high school. The average (I'm guessing) high school grad has never worked. By the time that @Minion-Queen, @art_of_shred and I were out of high school we each had years of experience (we all went to school together, that's why the example.) I was working as an IT intern at 13, then did farm work till I was legal to get a normal job and worked continuously through the rest of high school and during my college time. So both high school and college were always "sideline" activities to actually being in the real world and having jobs and careers for all of us.

But for lots and lots of people, high school is their entire focus. It is all that they know and, of course, people who work in schools are focused on that as "the whole world" in the same way. If you think about how there is a huge group of people who live their lives reminiscing about the "glory days" of high school and how cool that senior year football game and homecoming dance were and the rest of life is just working the cash register at the local hardware store and being depressed as life is never as good as high school.

We that same crowd exists, one level up, in college. There are tons of adults for whom college was the "glory days" or they imagine that it would have been and they want their kids to have those same awesome memories and they feel that a happy life and a good career are impossible dreams So, avoiding the hell that is their vision of adult life for four years while they party at college avoiding the responsibilities that will follow seems like the only possible way to at least have a memory of what happiness was like.

You never find people with these feelings that also went on to great careers or are happy with where they are in life.

...and THAT is the reason I stopped working for a mid-size public school district after some years of service, about a month ago. Never again, if I can help it. Never again.

@IRJ said in US Completes First Offshore Windfarm:

You do not need an island to do this. That is the beauty of it.

Yeah I can see the drug attics that @RojoLoco was talking about, over on the right... though he's headed in the wrong direction. Like he passed out and just sailed on by.

As much as I hate Exchange, I hate Gmail a whole lot more. When they bought up Postini I started considering their archiving Vault solution. Haha no chance of that happening, that solution is garbage comparatively. Kept trying to like their consumer side of things, just isn't going to happen though. Only reason I have a Gmail account now is for the Google Play Store.

Hey pros, I need your help.

I'm beating my head against a wall now, as I've nearly exhausted ideas for this. On our System Center Data Protection Manager 2010, there are some inconsistencies. We get errors on the SQL databases/protected members saying "Replica is Inconsistent". This is happening on SQL2014 on a 2012R2 box, as well as a SQL version that is a few years old on a 2008R2 box. Through a lot of online research, I've:

*Enabled Windows Backup Services on both the source and target.

*Ran a consistency check.

*Checked the drive space (expanded it another 150GB last night).

*Rebooted the hosts.

*Deleted/re-added to the protection group.

The only thing we haven't done is completely delete the protection groups and start from scratch. That obviously is not ideal but we're getting there. Everything online that I've read, I've tried. Can't think of anything else!

I went and saw Zach (zuphzuph) and Drew (CrimsonKidA) in Denver a couple weeks ago. Awesome time hiking and going to breweries!