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@Pete-S said in Associate existing drive with new Proxmox VM:

You have that info in the thread below from the other day:
https://mangolassi.it/topic/21751/import-a-qcow2-into-proxmox

Basically you need to put it in the right place and it has to have the right name (depending on config file, what filesystem, VM ID)

So the problem that I've seen from this is that it causes PM to get confused and not be able to display the storage data. Everything works, it just can't tell you where files are or delete unused space or whatever.

Just install one of the old supported OSes on another drive, reboot and run the firmware update. It's a self extracting executable.

With HP and Dell, it's their intention to support you by providing an additional layer of management on top of the actual manufacturers product. But you have to be in warranty to be able to leverage that support. If you intend to run equipment longer than the 5 year warranty, don't use Dell or HP or live without any firmware upgrades or support. If you use Dell or HP, replace hardware when it's out of warranty.

HP Gen8 servers are from 2012-2013 so 7-8 years old and not the best candidates for new installations.

Are you aware of the "UAC fix for unknown applications"? This may help you in a matter of 10 minutes. Worth a look, I suppose. Not that many years ago, I used to have to make CC Plus work on Windows 7 for a few customers. It was almost fun! 🙂 Haven't worked on forcing CC to run in a while....

Link to app:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/yongrhee/download-application-compatibility-toolkit-act-for-windows-10

Please note, ver 5 is now longer current, but the instructions are the same.

The crude instructions I follow:

I decided to give this a whirl, and I can say first hand that it does work. There’s just one thing…it’s not quite as simple as a few clicks. The first time you go through the instructions it will probably take 3 or 4 minutes, but each program you setup after that will probably take just a minute since you’ll understand what needs to be done. I’ve taken the liberty of modifying their directions ever so slightly to make them a bit easier, and I’ve also thrown in a few screenshots to guide you along the way: 1.Download (10.9MB) and install the Application Compatibility Toolkit. 2.In the Start menu find the shortcut Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0\Compatibility Administrator. Right click it and click Run as administrator. 3.In the left hand pane, right-click on the database under Custom Databases and select Create New, and select Application Fix. Vista UAC Application Fix 4.Enter the name and other details of the application you want to alter behavior on and then browse to it to select it. Click Next. 5.Click Next until you are in the Compatibility Fixes screen. On the Compatibility Fixes screen, find the item RunAsInvoker, and check it. Click Next and then Finish. 6.Select File -> Save As. Save the file as a filename.SDB type file in a directory you will easily find it. Then copy the <filename>.sdb file to the Vista computer you want to alter the elevation prompt behavior on. 7.Click Start -> All Programs -> Accessories. Right click Command Prompt and click Run as administrator. 8.Run the command below: sdbinst <path>\<filename>.sdb For example, if you saved the .SDB file as abc.sdb in the c:\Windows folder, the command should be like this: sdbinst c:\windows\abc.sdb It should prompt: Installation of <name> complete. Vista UAC Command Prompt I’m *guessing* that, before saving the file in Step 6, you can go back to Step 3 and add more “Application Fixes” to the database. That way you can execute just one database in the remaining steps.

@jasgot said in Dymo vs. other print servers:

@ccwtech said in Dymo vs. other print servers:

Is there any particular advantage or reason to use their print server over just another vendors print server?

What did you end up doing? I need to make a Dymo a networked printer and I have learned the Dymo printer server does not handle multiple subnets. I don't know why, just a common complaint.

I would like to toss any old usb printer server at it and have it work.

I've been using Dymo print servers across subnets for 3+ years, no issues that I'm aware of.

@JaredBusch said in Zoom meetings on Ubuntu:

Without a green screen or other good color to make the base, it sucks though.
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Thanks @JaredBusch , that is exactly what I needed.

@JaredBusch said in Notification by MeshCentral after a computer comes back online:

This is not a MC request or support forum.

I'll make a note.

@CCWTech said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

@JasGot said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

@scottalanmiller said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

spending so much time waiting for ScreenConnect to finally be able to load its device list. We spend just as much time waiting for SC's list to stop flashing from its load problems as it

How many clients?
What list?
SC is very fast in my experience.

2,000 clients and navigation and opening are fairly slow.

Have you used session filtering and subgroup expressions to keep any given window at a reasonable level?

We have thousands of clients sorted into hundreds of sub folders [for lack of a better word]. Our largest folder is 332 clients and it is loaded before I can get my finger off the mouse button.

In other news...

Coronavirus Conference to be cancelled... Because of Coronavirus.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/coronavirus-conference-gets-canceled-because-of-coronavirus

@CCWTech a bizarre ad to run for a company that doesn't have any sort of data loss protection on their big products and who encourages their customers to run with just a shared universal password on admin accounts. Telling people that data loss is a big risk, when that would instantly drive their customers away from them, seems like a crazy gambit.

@scottalanmiller said in Ninja RMM antivirus integration issues. Is Ninja even production ready?:

And they've been unable to offer any kind of viable backup system. Again, another conversation, but I asked about this at Spiceworld and their follow up was basically "we have no idea what our customers need in general but this one customer needs something unlike anyone else and we are only going to look at their needs" and totally ignoring the needs of the MSP or SMB market, which is really the only one that needs RMM on any scale, especially an RMM like this that does so little.

I swear, simply "not installing it" would make no difference, it seems to add nothing of value other than an inventory list, but that's manually maintained anyway, so we could just make wiki entries for a fraction of the effort.

It does have useful alerts, but nothing that can't be accomplished with open source software.

@CCWTech said in MSP Billing:

We currently are billing 25/computer/month and 65/server/month (if virtualized we don't count the 1st VM just hosting the hyper-v role).
Initially for remote support we gave clients an allotted hours per month based on the amount of computers/servers they had and billed anything over that. We found that almost all clinics never went over what we allocated.

We use the per/comp and per/server model as a basis for decision making, but don't actually price from that. We try almost all flat rate pricing, but it is determined by effort and adjusted over time, not by the size of the environment. We use size of environment to try to estimate effort, but it is very loose.

Because things like printers or AD are way bigger support factors than are desktop or server counts. And the apps being used make a massive difference.

@scottalanmiller said in Learning Spanish - Voice centric:

Rosetta Stone isn't too bad.

So far I'm digging it.

@scottalanmiller said in PCI Compliance with Centurylink Modem:

Have you tried testing the port to see what happens?

Got busy, assigned it to Val for the team.

@JaredBusch said in Google Fi:

@Dashrender said in Google Fi:

While I'm sure T-Mobile is working on it.. when I tested T 2 years ago in Nebraska... only the major arteries of the city had access, and horrible access at that. I technically live outside the city limits by less than 1/4 mile, but other than AT&T, all other carriers service sucks at best and generally don't work.

While true, at least with TMobile you have excellent WiFi calling at home.

Or in offices that are often shielded.

@scottalanmiller said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:

@DustinB3403 said in Joining 2 Windows 10 Machines:

How would he even license this?

As long as one of the Windows 10 copies is retail rather than OEM or he gets two OEMs for the same hardware...

Right there is basically no issue here. WTF with this thread.

@JasGot said in MSP Backup Product - Local Storage:

@dbeato said in MSP Backup Product - Local Storage:

@JasGot said in MSP Backup Product - Local Storage:

@CCWTech said in MSP Backup Product - Local Storage:

@JasGot said in MSP Backup Product - Local Storage:

@CCWTech said in MSP Backup Product - Local Storage:

@scottalanmiller I just had a phone conversation with Craig at Backup Assist (they are members of this forum I believe). They are in the process of rolling out a product that may fit our needs. He's going to do some research and schedule a call. I will keep you in the loop.

Just curious, what is unique about your needs that their Multisite Manager didn't address?

I'm not sure. When Craig called me and asked about what I was looking for, he mentioned that they are coming out with a new product in the very near future that may work the best. I haven't explored any further than that at this point.

Based on our conversation here, this may be all you need.
https://www.backupassist.com/multisitemanager.html

BackupAssist however is just a wrapped Management of Windows Server Backup, I used to recommend it but ever since using Veeam I have not moved back. The free version is phenomenal of the Veeam Backup Agent and if you have Exchange or SQL you can still pay for it or use the free up to 10 Community edition.

It's so much more than a wrapper.

Should be its own thread, but do you know of anything similar for Linux?

@Pete-S said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

@CCWTech said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

@Pete-S said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

@CCWTech said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

@Pete-S said in Server with multiple backplane / Drive Configuration:

What server/model is it?

HP ML350 Gen 10

https://techlibrary.hpe.com/docs/iss/ML350_Gen10/setup_install/

OK, looks like there are many storage options on that machine and many different raid controller options as well.

But, there are no SAS expanders on the backplanes. Backplanes are straight "dumb" wiring so to speak. HPE has an additional SAS expander card that have to be installed if you're using that.

So if you have 16 drive bays I assume 8x2.5" drive bays per "box". You then probably have it paired with the P816i-a controller in which case you have each drive bay directly wired to one SAS port from the controller.

So it makes no performance difference how you install the drives. I would however put the SSDs in one box (one backplane) and the HDDs in the other - just to make it less confusing and less of chance to pull the wrong drive when something fails.

I don't understand why you would use 2.5" HDDs at all though but that is another matter. The server can also be configured with one 8x2.5" and one 4x3.5" bay which would be my preference.

Yes, it is the HP SAS expander card I'm using.

Since the backplanes in that server doesn't do anything, it makes no difference in what bays you put the drives. Not from a performance perspective and not from a redundancy perspective.

From the SAS expander to the backplane to the drive is electrically the same as just having a straight cable. So there is nothing that can fail - unless you physically abuse it.

The backplane does have some electronic components on it though but that is for driving the LEDs in the drive bays.

Awesome thank you everyone!

The scanning software can't tell you where it is getting the issue?

@travisdh1 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@dbeato said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@travisdh1 said in Content filtering with granular settings:

@dbeato said in Content filtering with granular settings:

Even the Sophos XG Firewall do the content filtering decently well, not sure if they want to go that route but I am not a salesman.

I can't stand Sophos firewalls.... guess what they use at work.

No prizes.

Yeeez, what can't you stand about them?

The subscription, and the over-complication of settings by making everything objects instead of ip addresses and ports. Takes 5x to long finding what current settings are, let alone change something.

I actually like it. If you need to make a change, you can make the change on the object and the rules are already applied.