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Wow ... it's been a month since I asked this!

From the responses, I guess there is a third little piece of this, in RMM and also how much I want control over my user machines.

In many ways, I was almost considering them all just having fresh installs, like they went out and bought a new laptop from Best Buy, and now want to attach to Office365.

The files will be there, they can collaborate. Do I really need to provide anything else?

We are currently using an RMM solution still so I can run scripts and assist remotely if needed.

@BRRABill said in Color Question:

Yes, I just talked to another friend who is a designer.

He said that basically the PMS color is "out of gamut" (the ! in the software) and the software does as good a job as it can to color match it.

That is why it is different, and it technically correct, or as correct as it can be.

The hex values are also apparently "web safe" colors. Not sure why they picked those, as I don't think it is applicable anymore, but what the heck.

Man ... learned a lot of graphics today!

Change the web safe colors to the closest instead. Web safe was way, way back in the days (about 20 years ago) when you had 8-bit color graphics adapters and you had to use a palette to spread those colors over the entire color spectrum.

Heck, that was so long ago this was a trip down memory lane for me...

@Pete-S said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

@DustinB3403 said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

@Pete-S said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

@DustinB3403 said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

@Pete-S said in Local Encryption Scenarios:

Anyway, in the case of the CPA we are talking about material that is not really sensitive at all.

The data files could be secured the same way as any paper records. Locked in a safe when not in use.

That would be the same as being encrypted, since the lock on a safe = encryption and the physical key = the passphrase to decrypt the drive or data.

Well, in principle only. You can walk away with the encrypted computer but it would be harder with the safe.

In most cases physical security is about delaying. You can smash and grab a laptop from the office window but it would require a lot more time to break in properly and then open a safe before someone shows up.

You have those examples a bit mixed up.

The comparable scenario would be "getting to the data" The physical medium housing that data doesn't matter.

You break the lock, you get the data. If you break the encryption key you get the data.

But a physical lock is likely easier to break and get into whatever than it would to decrypt a encrypted volume.

Reminds me of this classic:
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there is ALWAYS a relevant xkcd

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@BRRABill said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@WrCombs said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

@scottalanmiller said in Minimum Chromebook Specs:

Decent ARM processor and 4GB RAM, 16GB storage.

Isn't that all Chrome books?
So chromebooks are set up bare minimum?

All in what sense? They don't all come with those specs, no.

I guess, all of the chromebooks i've seen are extremely similar in specs.

Do they? 2GB - 16GB RAM is a pretty wide spread. As wide as you realistically get on any other laptop range.

What would you need 16GB of RAM on a Chromebook for?

What do you need it in anything for? Running apps. Chromebooks are just a computer like any other.

Isnt chromeOS based on Internet use?

What does that mean to you?

Most everything you would do on ChomeOS would be based on the internet through google chrome web browser?

Sure, the same could be said with Windows, Linux, or macOS. Almost everything that any one does today is like that. That's just "modern computing" and is not special or unique about ChromeOS.

Fair enough.
I didnt think it was all that special because Like you said, You can do that in WIndows linux, macOS.

ChromeOS isn't all that special, it's just a highly locked down version of Linux. It's light and fast. What makes it special is that it can run the widest selection of Linux apps (standard Linux apps, and Android apps), and uses Chrome itself to build the desktop which lowers the total system overhead by not needing two subsystems, one for the desktop rendering and one for the browser - it uses the browser for both.

gotcha!

@wrx7m said in Managing Color Printing:

I have made it one of my missions to get rid of as many printers as possible.

Prior to my current gig, I had only a minor disdain for printers. We're in a Citrix environment. Printing is a nightmare.

What's keeping the company from at least migrating the domain controllers? That's actually one of the easier services to migrate.

I've sometimes seen 2003 with legacy applications that management does not want to change for whatever reason. Just not with DCs.

@brrabill said in XenServer Not Booting:

@dustinb3403 said in XenServer Not Booting:

The culprit is likely that you'd didn't point your logs to a different directory, and those logs being written destroyed the USB.

No logs written to USB.

We spent forever going over all that, remember?

I don't remember, but in any case XS reading/writing to the USB killed your boot device

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

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

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

@brrabill - Glad we could help out!

Hey cool, welcome to the community!

Glad to be here.... Always good to get feedback... both good, and bad!

This is definitely the place for that. 😉

@carnival-boy said in Current Status of SEO:

An SEO expert can advise on how to turn bad content in to good content, without being a writer.

Beyond how to be a good writer? I'm not confident in this. This is what SEO salespeople claim, but at the end of the day it's quality content and writing and beyond that, you are into the gaming that Google is watching for.

@brrabill said in "Export To Excel" Option in Onedrive for Business:

@scottalanmiller said in "Export To Excel" Option in Onedrive for Business:

@brrabill said in "Export To Excel" Option in Onedrive for Business:

I guess it just seemed odd to have it there, to serve up a listing of files.

I guess if no one can me can get to it, it's not a concern. But then, why put it there? Or only put it there for the users with access to it.

Well then, with that logic, why click on it?

I like to see what can break.

I mean for the users.

@momurda said in Webroot Freezing Windows 10:

@brrabill said in Webroot Freezing Windows 10:

KB4093112

This problem isnt listed in the Known Issues section of the update yet.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4093112/windows-10-update-kb4093112
This seems to be the new spectre v2 update. Seems to have totally borked IE though for many people.

Was the other Webroot issue listed?

@brrabill said in Printing Costs:

@jaredbusch said in Printing Costs:

@brrabill said in Printing Costs:

HP is new to the copier market since 2016. They entered after buying the Samsung line.

I have a client that has had an HP copier for years.
HP Color LaserJet CM6040 MFP Series

Annnnnnd?

Do they like ittttttttt?

They do.

@brrabill said in Microsoft Planner/Teams Testing:

@ambarishrh said in Microsoft Planner/Teams Testing:

Generate a team report on the progress. I can see a graphical dashboard saying the progress, but if i need to get an overall view to get a picture of our tasks, its not that easy or not available

You mean across all tasks across all plans?

The dashboard shows tasks of one plan

I set up multiple archive policies and let the user do what they want, if they want. Nobody has reached the max capacity yet, and if they do, it only effects them.

We try to push for good user email organizational habits.

If they fail and it causes outlook issues, then we suggest they archive old stuff.

Another thing I was thinking about was using a plugin I've used in the past (Pretty Link) to just do it on my own website backend.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/pretty-link/

It's a bit more work than something like bit.ly, but probably better in the long run.

@brrabill said in Live MLing the MC Livestream:

@travisdh1 said in Live MLing the MC Livestream:

@brrabill said in Live MLing the MC Livestream:

@travisdh1 said in Live MLing the MC Livestream:

Hrm, I think I should leave this thread open while the live stream is happening....

Will you be checking it, as well? 😉

Of course... you can watch me updating it 😄

You aren't on screen. Only @scottalanmiller

Ah well, no inception for us.

@hobbit666 said

I still love XenServer and XenOrchestra as my one of choice for now. But then i'm only running small Linux/Windows servers on it anyway like Zabbix, Radius, Unifi. Nothing full production like the DC or Dynamics/SQL

Same here, but cautiously watching...

New NIC fixed the issue.

So to sum up ... one of the XS7 updates hosed the NIC on my XS, but only with Linix VMs. Windows VMs worked fine.

A new NIC (with the Linux VMs using only that NIC) fixed the issue.

@Dashrender said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

@travisdh1 said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

@Dashrender said in Domain/Server Upgrade Options:

NextCloud requires either the use of a local sync client (not tenable for huge network shares) or web based file sharing. I think WebDav might work - but I'm not sure anyone here has gotten it to work.

I got it working without to much fuss. Maybe I'll redo that and do another how-to post on it.

But even if you do get it to work, this is still a horrible solution - because it's really no different than old SMB shares, whatever infects your machine can still encrypt all the data the user has write access to.

You have a damned complex about this. Get over it.

The best solution technically is almost never the best solution for usability.

Yourjob is to balance those for the business need.

@BRRABill said in Dead DC Question:

@scottalanmiller said in Dead DC Question:

@BRRABill said in Dead DC Question:

@scottalanmiller said in Dead DC Question:

@BRRABill said in Dead DC Question:

c) totally move to the cloud

If you are small enough, JumpCloud is completely free.

We are not that small, unfortunately.

Well then the answer should be obvious... you need to downsize.

Are you available to come in like George Clooney in "Up In The Air" and make the cuts?

🙂

Yup