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Not enough info. How many people, how many files and how much storage space? What is the performance load expected?

I assume from ops original question that he is considering connecting his file server to a SAN vs local storage, but there really isn't enough detail to tell.

@dbeato said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter:

@bigbear said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter:

ituations like these I have been using Azure Files. The SMB 3.0 stuff allows you to map drives directly to the cloud and you get the usual SMB features (and file locking). You can also install a premise server for caching of larger active datasets. SMB 3.0 includes all the good stuff from the Storsimple acquisition. Combine with Azure Domain Servers and Azure Active Directory, lots of options.

For that, I would recommend enabling Recycle Bin of the whole Sharepoint Share and also users will get versioning instead of locking as you stated.

Sharepoint versioning doesn’t help in an excel spreadsheet that is constantly being updated, there would just be versions with disparate data.

Azure Files on a decent internet connection feels just like a file server. Was skeptical at first but haven’t had any issues yet.

@scottalanmiller said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter:

@bigbear said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter:

@dbeato said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter:

@bigbear said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter:

@dbeato said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter:

@bigbear said in Mapping OneDrive Business to a drive letter:

ituations like these I have been using Azure Files. The SMB 3.0 stuff allows you to map drives directly to the cloud and you get the usual SMB features (and file locking). You can also install a premise server for caching of larger active datasets. SMB 3.0 includes all the good stuff from the Storsimple acquisition. Combine with Azure Domain Servers and Azure Active Directory, lots of options.

For that, I would recommend enabling Recycle Bin of the whole Sharepoint Share and also users will get versioning instead of locking as you stated.

Sharepoint versioning doesn’t help in an excel spreadsheet that is constantly being updated, there would just be versions with disparate data.

Azure Files on a decent internet connection feels just like a file server. Was skeptical at first but haven’t had any issues yet.

Oh believe me, a real file server is way better and yes it would render better results.

Nothing like telling customers they are getting upgraded to the cloud only to realize their synced folder sucks compared to their 10 year old file server lol.

Synced folders should have local speed. That sounds like a Windows syncing problem if they aren't screaming fast.

Not talking about speed, that’s fine. The lack of file locking for many small businesses the use excel heavily is insurmountable. Opening in multi user mode is a possible solution but even for me has been unreliable.

Also no support for virtual desktops without profile containers is a deal breaker for me as you know love my Remote Desktop Servers...

@scottalanmiller said in DKIM records Office 365:

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@jaredbusch said in DKIM records Office 365:

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@joel said in DKIM records Office 365:

I was asked to setup DKIM records for Office 365.

Unless, are they asking you to configure DKIM so that another service you are using can send email on behalf of your domain?

Most likely he was asked because someone hear dabout some shiny new thing and said do it.

DKIM and SPF help so little IMO.

Exactly - email vendors don't want to be accused of not delivering mail.. so they can't really live and die by DKIM and SPF.

My guess is that it is mostly used by SMBs where people tend to get overly concerned about security, mistake how email works and think that things like this are some sort of requirement, and start blocking anyone not doing it.

So what's the big boys solution to spam then?

Useful things Like actually scanning the email to look for patterns. DKIM and SPF aren't bad, but they're unofficial and don't address the actual problem but attempt to address an artefact of the problem. And they do literally nothing against the worst spammers, like Source Media, who use all addresses covered by things like this.

But so far even ML has an SPF, so it wouldn't be that bad eh?

It doesn't hurt to have it. But it's not very important.

I would say that SenderID is dead, hence SPF has little affect on the initial delivery of your email and is only used when someone is replying to your message.

DMARC and DKIM are more relevant to setup with your primary provider and has benefits.

But I think Scott is saying SPF and even DKIM do little to actually stop spam, and SenderID is a dead project so SPF does nothing at all. And I agree.

I am willing to bet the email that was spoofed used OAUTH or some other attack method. You should really dig past this for more details and get the original messages, would love to see the headers from the spoofed messages.

Its great that "bobs nephew is google security" but insist that they let you do your job.

Quick reference:

DMARC: Tells remote servers if your domain is using SPF and/or DKIM

SenderID: Was like caller ID for SPF, but caused a lot of grief.

SPF: Almost irrelevant since the failure of SPF SenderID

DKIM: Uses a public/private key setup similar to PGP that uses domain keys for key exchange and sends an encrypted signature that can be decrypted and validated from a public key.

None of these are going to do much to block the types of attacks you would see these days.

@brrabill said in Potential Office365 (Exchange Online) Throttling Issue:

@wrx7m said in Potential Office365 (Exchange Online) Throttling Issue:

They are throttling. I just went through a 100 mailbox migration and a user with a 15 GB mailbox took 3 days. I have a 150/150 Mbps dedicated fiber circuit.

Yeah this is basically what I am saying.

Plus these "higher speeds" they discuss are with concurrent users.

So that could be why. If you happen to have 100 users and they are all 5GB mailboxes you will complete over a weekend.

You have 100 users with 20GB mailboxes, you are in for a world of hurt.

Definitely completing multiple 20Gb mailboxes over a weekend.

I have a FreePBX install I had to help move this weekend. They dont have Sys Admin pro. I remember some posts about manually updating FreePBX from @JaredBusch but cant find them.

@smitherick said in Manually Updating FreePBX:

Does this help, from 2017.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/13143/upgrading-the-freepbx-firmware

Thanks!

@travisdh1 said in FreePBX Restored from Vultr Snapshot - No IP on boot:

@bigbear said in FreePBX Restored from Vultr Snapshot - No IP on boot:

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX Restored from Vultr Snapshot - No IP on boot:

Is your hardware address right? Duplicated MAC address might be an issue?

I ended up deleting everything in eth0, which the system no longer recognizes as "connected" and entered the settings in eth1, saved and restarted network service. Now I am able to edit network settings from system admin and they are immediately reflected in the the network scripts.

Just rebooted and came up perfect!

I think this is an unlikely scenario, restoring snapshots to a different IP address or different vultr account. I am guessing this is what caused the issue.

No on to the FreepPBX 14 updates.

This happens on a number of different distributions that I know of when restoring. The network adapter will pickup the next one in line, eth1 instead of eth0 in your case. I haven't been watching the boards here during the day at the moment, probably could've saved you some headache

I would like to figure out where I could remove/repair the references to eth0 and delete eth1, but I am satisfied that I got it working for now. I believe it was because the hardware ID as @JaredBusch mentioned was in the eth0 profile, and no longer matched the mac address vultr was assigning it under the new account.

@scottalanmiller said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

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@syko24 said in Backblaze for Windows Server:

@bigbear - Duplicati is a free option for backing up to B2. I have not personally used it with B2 but seems to be very flexible with various storage platforms.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/duplicati-backups-cloud-storage/

I do use duplicati with B2 for it's target storage. Works great.

What type of file server are you running?

It's NextCloud on my home lab box. So really... nothing. Maybe 500MB worth of things to actually back up.

If you run nextcloud as a premise server can it serve as a bad to thr local network? Or only accessed via sync tool?

You can use it as the only on-premise file server if you want. Everything can access it via webdav now, and you can tie it into any AD or OpenLDAP domains already on site. Just makes end-user life that much easier. If setup properly, it's always accessible via a website anyway. The sync client is really the most painful way to access it, honestly.

Wow my typos....

So you can use it as a NAS/File Server and it does file locking etc like a windows file server?

I haven't specifically tested it's shared file locking, so I won't say for sure myself.

But you use it to map a network drive, correct?

And by file locking I just mean basic "this file is in use by XX user, the basic SMB stuff)

Yes, you map a legacy network drive.

I am debating whether to load up NextCloud or just some CentOS setup for basic file sharing services. I am worried I am going to come back one day and see that he has installed FreeNAS or some other junk. But I cant speak from any personal experience about NextCloud.

Not sure we could rearrange the current gear to do a SAM-SD setup.

@jaredbusch said in FreePBX iOS/Android Mobile App in public beta now:

@bigbear said in FreePBX iOS/Android Mobile App in public beta now:

Just wanted to share that you can download the mobile iOS/Android beta for FreePBX's Zulu now if you are a user.

This went online Wednesday August 28th
https://wiki.freepbx.org/display/ZU/Zulu+Mobile+Installation

You can get 2 free licenses for your installation for free. Just getting ready to provision my phone to check it out.

The latest desktop version of Zulu has worked pretty well. There is a Slack/Teams feature that isnt bad, but since you cant invite outsiders to it its probably not going to gain much traction. The whole interface is pretty nice though.

I hope they change the licensing model from the $199 per 20 users per year to something per actual user.

That is only $10/user/year. That is not all the bad.

What price point you after?

Also, I was on their forum today and did not see a notice for this!

The Zulu app on Fedora works okay-ish.

I would like it to be just $10/user/year

Currently if you have 9 users you have to buy 20 and if you have 22 users you have to buy 40. At least that’s the only option in the portal. Increments of 20 and I think 50