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Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...

https://www.rackspace.com

This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."

I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.

Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.

Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.

For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.

Thanks for this.

I have a client that doesn’t want to do M365 backups because they think a cloud provider won’t lose data.

Remind them that Microsoft lost MY data!!

Backstory?

Prepare for incoming book. lol.

Heh ... we had a client lose their business continuity about a decade ago when the G00g had a major outage. No phone numbers to get anywhere with them. It was a ticket. Eventually, the silence from the G00g was a GFY.

They had enough documentation outside of their mail system to marginally pull things together but it was a huge hit against them.

Yeah, Cloud. It's da'bomb. ;0)

Unfortunately we're getting pressure from the state level down that is wanting us to go to the cloud. We just disabled our 2 AD Controllers that wer ein Azure because of problems they were causing.

The psychology behind the marketing push and mental formation is nothing short of amazing.

I've had peeps stare at me like I was from Mars because we focus on on-premises workloads including Exchange.

"Why?"

Then all the sputum like "Modern", "Agile", and other such Gummy Bears get dropped as convincers meanwhile not one, "this is why cloud is better than on-premises and its payback" ever gets mentioned.

He who has the data owns the data. He who owns the data can do with the data what he pleases. He who has the data can also lose it and tell peeps to GFY when they are panicking because their entire business just went down the toilet. #SMH

EDIT: Case and Point: Musk going on about playing vid games in a TESLA. Really? I don't give a flying f*ck about that. I want a car that will get me from A to B with the occasional 5 second or better run to 110KM/H or even a 13 second or better quarter mile.

The rest is all FLUFF. FEATURES ARE FLUFF. They mean SFA to a business's bottom line (I have new clue in my dyslexic brain where that apostrophe goes). That just goes over most peep's head.

Anything we can do a in a $500 a month Azure VM, I can do in a $10 a month Vultr VM..

Heh, and we can do on-premises for the cost of the SPLA SAL for Exchange Standard.

It really depends on the org's goals.

Needed would be a DC VM and the Exchange VM with 4 vCPUs on the fly and 16GB vRAM on the fly. For updates, it's good to bump the VM up to 8 vCPUs and 64GB vRAM to allow for the compiling that happens.
EDIT: Or, just wait. :0)

With the ridiculous number of DCs we have here, just waiting is a viable option.

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Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...

https://www.rackspace.com

This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."

I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.

Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.

Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.

For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.

Thanks for this.

I have a client that doesn’t want to do M365 backups because they think a cloud provider won’t lose data.

Remind them that Microsoft lost MY data!!

Backstory?

Prepare for incoming book. lol.

Heh ... we had a client lose their business continuity about a decade ago when the G00g had a major outage. No phone numbers to get anywhere with them. It was a ticket. Eventually, the silence from the G00g was a GFY.

They had enough documentation outside of their mail system to marginally pull things together but it was a huge hit against them.

Yeah, Cloud. It's da'bomb. ;0)

Unfortunately we're getting pressure from the state level down that is wanting us to go to the cloud. We just disabled our 2 AD Controllers that wer ein Azure because of problems they were causing.

The psychology behind the marketing push and mental formation is nothing short of amazing.

I've had peeps stare at me like I was from Mars because we focus on on-premises workloads including Exchange.

"Why?"

Then all the sputum like "Modern", "Agile", and other such Gummy Bears get dropped as convincers meanwhile not one, "this is why cloud is better than on-premises and its payback" ever gets mentioned.

He who has the data owns the data. He who owns the data can do with the data what he pleases. He who has the data can also lose it and tell peeps to GFY when they are panicking because their entire business just went down the toilet. #SMH

EDIT: Case and Point: Musk going on about playing vid games in a TESLA. Really? I don't give a flying f*ck about that. I want a car that will get me from A to B with the occasional 5 second or better run to 110KM/H or even a 13 second or better quarter mile.

The rest is all FLUFF. FEATURES ARE FLUFF. They mean SFA to a business's bottom line (I have new clue in my dyslexic brain where that apostrophe goes). That just goes over most peep's head.

Anything we can do a in a $500 a month Azure VM, I can do in a $10 a month Vultr VM..

@CCWTech said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.

Nor does MeshCentral

Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.

I just confirmed that mine is working on the default Fedora 37 desktop using both Firefox and Chromium.

Wayland with MeshCentral?

You SURE you are on Wayland?

Isn't Wayland the default for Fedora now? I'm using the stock Fedora, so I'm thinking I am.

Double check that. Maybe you updated from something with X.org.

Fresh install. Wiped root before installing (it was way behind, no point in upgrading).

Do you have NVIDIA drivers on the system? Those will revert you back to X.Org

Yep, sure do. Guess it's not wayland then.

You can check with

loginctl

and

'''
loginctl show-session -p Type <sessionid>

loginctl show-session -p Type 2
Type=wayland

Well shoot, are my Nvidia drivers not working? The more I find out, the more things I need to look at/fix.

What do you have it set to use?

I was under the impression that if you install the NVidia drivers, that you would wind up with X11 and not Wayland.

@CCWTech said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.

Nor does MeshCentral

Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.

I just confirmed that mine is working on the default Fedora 37 desktop using both Firefox and Chromium.

Wayland with MeshCentral?

You SURE you are on Wayland?

Isn't Wayland the default for Fedora now? I'm using the stock Fedora, so I'm thinking I am.

Double check that. Maybe you updated from something with X.org.

Fresh install. Wiped root before installing (it was way behind, no point in upgrading).

Do you have NVIDIA drivers on the system? Those will revert you back to X.Org

Yep, sure do. Guess it's not wayland then.
No reason to guess:

$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE
x11

Well dang. That's a lot easier, lol.

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.

Nor does MeshCentral

Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.

I just confirmed that mine is working on the default Fedora 37 desktop using both Firefox and Chromium.

Wayland with MeshCentral?

You SURE you are on Wayland?

Isn't Wayland the default for Fedora now? I'm using the stock Fedora, so I'm thinking I am.

Double check that. Maybe you updated from something with X.org.

Fresh install. Wiped root before installing (it was way behind, no point in upgrading).

Do you have NVIDIA drivers on the system? Those will revert you back to X.Org

Yep, sure do. Guess it's not wayland then.

You can check with

loginctl

and

'''
loginctl show-session -p Type <sessionid>

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Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...

https://www.rackspace.com

This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."

I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.

Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.

Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.

For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.

Thanks for this.

I have a client that doesn’t want to do M365 backups because they think a cloud provider won’t lose data.

Remind them that Microsoft lost MY data!!

Backstory?

Prepare for incoming book. lol.

Heh ... we had a client lose their business continuity about a decade ago when the G00g had a major outage. No phone numbers to get anywhere with them. It was a ticket. Eventually, the silence from the G00g was a GFY.

They had enough documentation outside of their mail system to marginally pull things together but it was a huge hit against them.

Yeah, Cloud. It's da'bomb. ;0)

Unfortunately we're getting pressure from the state level down that is wanting us to go to the cloud. We just disabled our 2 AD Controllers that wer ein Azure because of problems they were causing.

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@travisdh1 said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@scottalanmiller said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.

Nor does MeshCentral

Really? Now I need to go try that when I have a minute.

I just confirmed that mine is working on the default Fedora 37 desktop using both Firefox and Chromium.

Wayland with MeshCentral?

You SURE you are on Wayland?

Isn't Wayland the default for Fedora now? I'm using the stock Fedora, so I'm thinking I am.

Double check that. Maybe you updated from something with X.org.

Fresh install. Wiped root before installing (it was way behind, no point in upgrading).

Do you have NVIDIA drivers on the system? Those will revert you back to X.Org

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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Dashrender said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...

https://www.rackspace.com

This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."

I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.

Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.

Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.

For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.

Thanks for this.

I have a client that doesn’t want to do M365 backups because they think a cloud provider won’t lose data.

Remind them that Microsoft lost MY data!!

Backstory?

Prepare for incoming book. lol.

@PhlipElder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Anyone been to Rackspace's website recently? I forgot that they even existed. I went to their website and realized why...

https://www.rackspace.com

This looks like an AI generated page of gibberish if you said "make a generic MSP page that says nothing."

I'm seeing rumblings that business continuity for anyone on their Hosted Exchange is a total loss. So, if they are not Outlook enabled and thus able to export their mailbox to a .PST file, or other such client that can do so, they are totally and completely hooped.

Sacrosanct Edict #1: One shall never lose the data. One shall save the data. One shall always back up the data. One shall always test restore the data. One shall lose job if lose the data.
^^^
In this case, one has to wonder how long RS is going to be around as the rest of their businesses get hit with the lack of trust.

Now, the G00g lost a freaking huge amount of mailboxes something like a decade ago. We had a customer impacted by that. No redress. None. Back then there wasn't a disaster recovery structure in place where they could back up their data short of making regular .PST files. So, gone. It was all in the G.

For personal backups, I'm using MailStore Home (https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/). They have some business offerings that might be worth looking at regardless of your provider.

@CCWTech said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

@dafyre said in Running X11 - Ubuntu 22.10 - Should I care?:

I don't think you should care, really -- as long as your stuff is working how you want it to.

I prefer X11 still because of support for things like VNC and such. When Wayland gets that ironed out good, I may consider switching again.

Kinda what I was thinking but my OCD makes me think of it as 'broken'... LOL. Thanks!

If I'm honest, that's the way I feel about Wayland. It's new, it's exciting, but one of the main things I've come to expect from any computing platform is remote control. AFAIK, Even VNC doesn't work on Wayland yet.

I think they're getting closer though. Gnome has a Remote Desktop thing you can activate under Sharing, and it actually works half decently -- and works with a regular RDP client. The problem is that you have to be logged in, and can't let the screen lock. It works more akin to VNC rather than along the lines of Terminal Services.

I don't think you should care, really -- as long as your stuff is working how you want it to.

I prefer X11 still because of support for things like VNC and such. When Wayland gets that ironed out good, I may consider switching again.

@JaredBusch said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:

@Pete-S said in "Snapshots" on win10 laptops?:

Or do I need to use 3rd party solutions for backup and imaging?

• Veeam Backup & Replication CE?
• Cloudzilla Live?

Veeam Endpoint Protection is free if you go 3rd party.

I highly recommend this. Currently backing up my office machine to a home drive and my personal laptop at home to a network share.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ended up in the ER until 3 in the morning, got there at 7:30 ish. after waiting in excruciating pain in a wheel chair (cause I could barely walk) for almost 3.5hours I got back to a room, another 2 and i finally got meds, Doctors are thinking it's a slipped disc, but I refused to do an MRI for couple reasons, 1. there were 12 people in front of me, (roughly 9-hour wait) and 2. I'm not paying out of pocket for an MRI that's just too much money. the doctor even said it's expensive. Home with new "how to care for this issue" paperwork and waiting to hear back on follow-up appointment happy friday eve

Yeesh. take it easy there cowboy! Seriously though, get to feeling better and if the doc contacts your insurance and pre-approves it, will they pay? (I ask because some will and some won't).

I'm in-between health insurance at the moment

Oof. Owch. Take three of these and call me in the morning.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ended up in the ER until 3 in the morning, got there at 7:30 ish. after waiting in excruciating pain in a wheel chair (cause I could barely walk) for almost 3.5hours I got back to a room, another 2 and i finally got meds, Doctors are thinking it's a slipped disc, but I refused to do an MRI for couple reasons, 1. there were 12 people in front of me, (roughly 9-hour wait) and 2. I'm not paying out of pocket for an MRI that's just too much money. the doctor even said it's expensive. Home with new "how to care for this issue" paperwork and waiting to hear back on follow-up appointment happy friday eve

Yeesh. take it easy there cowboy! Seriously though, get to feeling better and if the doc contacts your insurance and pre-approves it, will they pay? (I ask because some will and some won't).

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

troubleshooting a printer issue ... another one.

I worked on one of those today too,… started with deleting the printer and driver. Which worked with the install of universal driver

Too bad you could stop at just deleting the printer and driver, lol.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just getting started for the day. coffee is made. now to hop in and help with these tickets.

Yay, work. Things have been oddly quiet around here... Must be the holidays. All the viruses (college kids) must be going home after finals already.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

working tickets. fixing printers (i hate printers)
coffee pot is full!

Well, there was your problem -- the coffee pot is full! The coffee pot status should be: refill in progress!

Edit: My coffee status for today is: Installing Java.

@dbeato said in Todays' replacement for Teamviewer:

@scottalanmiller You can use Splashtop which is great.

I second Splashtop. While not free, $5 a month won't break the piggy bank, and it works dang good.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

124 mile round-trip commute ended today. Fully remote gig starts on 12/12

Sweet!

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally making coffee and going through tickets! Happy Friday

Yay, Friday!