@dbeato said in Protek Support MSP Ransomware Hits Customers in Salt Lake City, Utah:
I think that if it was VPN, still bad practice to have VPN from MSP or any other systems that unprotected. MSPs should not need to have VPN to customers at all.
And vendors wonder why I won’t let them VPN into my network.... ha
As some might recall, I ran into Wiztree a month ago. I asked the author to look into adding it to Chocolatey.
And he did.
https://chocolatey.org/packages/wiztree/3.17
It's been a good year for Dashrender - down 40 Lbs since January!
Brought my mile time from 8:29 to 6:47.
Only bad thing - good cholesterol is a bit low (but bad cholesterol is in the good range). Doc suggested I drink Red Wine to improve the good Cholesterol.
Just read about this free book on that other site, thought i would share a link to it here.
I was restoring some files from our backups when I ran across this.
These files have been sitting there for a month plus. Unbelievably it appears that non of my other network shares were affected by this.
OMG - I think we some how dodged this bullet.
@eddiejennings said in Microsoft Resellers:
I've had experience with CDW (average customer service experience) and Insight (average experience for me, terrible for @scottalanmiller) for Windows Server, Windows 10, SQL server, and MSDN licensing.
What other VARs have you folk used for your Microsoft licensing needs? Has your general experience with said VAR been positive or negative?
I try to avoid VARs and would much prefer a pure reseller... but I know I know.. a rare thing these days, because the margin on hardware/software is razor thin.
In re-reading your OP, "mail-enable Dynamic Distribution groups" are not likely security groups, they are likely email only groups.
When you create regular groups you can create distribution or security groups. Security groups can also be used as distribution groups, but distribution groups CANNOT be used as security groups.
You are trying to set permissions (which is a security thing) so you need to use pure security groups to get the function you want.
@mr-jones said in Outlook Calendar Security Group Permissions:
@dashrender Do you think that because the security group is populated by several dynamic distribution groups that it wouldn't work?
I could just add everyone individually to the security group, but I like to do dynamic groups based on AD departments because it makes things easier for the onboarding/offboarding part of things.
I don't know anything about dynamic groups - I've never heard of those before your post. Even though you were allowed to nest them, it's likely that they don't work that way.
As for onboarding offboarding - I copy a template user, so that creates the user with the same groups that the template has. Deleting the user though, oddly doesn't remove them from those groups - instead it leaves a UUID behind for the user, and I have to either run a script or delete them manually, so offboarding is a PITA.
My version is older than yours, but as your second line of thinking went:
create email group, add all users to it, grant that group whatever rights are needed - reviewer in this case - tada, done.
You might need the users to log out and back in to get the new rights.
I do this for many calendars in my org.
@scottalanmiller said in VMware Workstation VM Backups:
@eleceng said in VMware Workstation VM Backups:
Sometimes they are not powered off when at home and work is done and changes are made.
That will cause problems.
The fact that they are VMware workstation is likely an issue here for running VMs. As Scott said, an powered off VM is just a dumb file, anything that can backup files can backup those files too.
Live is another story. You might have to buy an agent based backup. Perhaps someone knows a low cost/no cost agent based backup.
@scottalanmiller said in Macbook Air for College:
@dashrender said in Macbook Air for College:
but that's just me.
Correct, this actually matters to literally no one. Being able to run some ancient app from 1992 affects nobody.
The only thing that matters to anyone is if it can do a good job for their actual workloads that they will run. Not theoretical ancient workloads that they will never encounter.
A better answer would have been - anything modern, written/released in the last say 10 years - yes you'll have no issues with.
you have some old legacy crap - just like windows, you'll likely have issues.
:)
@scottalanmiller said in Macbook Air for College:
@gjacobse said in Macbook Air for College:
Uh-
Don’t?What is the need for having the MacBook?
Why wouldn't you? The new MacBook crushes almost everything else. It's pricey, but really cheap given its performance.
Can the M1 run ALL - 100% all mac software? if not, then I wouldn't buy it, but that's just me.
@scottalanmiller said in New storage... what about file server:
@dashrender said in New storage... what about file server:
Are you sure? He said he had servers with internal storage... and now as a SC5020 - so sure, now he has a IPOD, but it sounds like before he was probably OK - each host was separate. Then the QNAP was a NAS file server.. and least that's the way I read it.
Oh maybe. QNAP has both SAN and NAS components. All garbage, of course. But it can do either.
Really we don't have enough information to know if he was using the QNAP for VM storage or not...
Since he mentioned the servers had local storage - I will admit I assumed the Servers (I also assumed they were using VMs) used the local storage for VMs and that the QNAP was solely to act as a file server for, you know - user files.. not VM files...
@scottalanmiller said in New storage... what about file server:
@gros96 said in New storage... what about file server:
have to say, QNAP has never been a good match for our company, but overall I have nothing but a good thing to say about it
It's not a good match for anyone. That's why it isn't considered IT equipment, it's just a toy. High cost, low performance, little to no support. The danger in things like a QNAP is that it sets a low expectation for IT performance that is so dramatically off the mark, that it makes it easy to get lost and to think that "doing better than what you did before" is a guideline, rather than "doing well compared to industry standards."
The approach you have now is what's called an Inverted Pyramid of Doom, or a 3-2-1 Design, one commonly knows as a scam run by vendors (Dell especially is famous for pulling this trick on their customers who let salesman design systems instead of IT folks) to sell tons of high cost gear where far, far less would perform better and be safer. What you had before was just a worse Inverted Pyramid of Doom. So because this is so much better than how bad that was before, it hides the fact that this likely cost 400-500% more than an even faster, even more reliable system that would be simpler to manage.
Are you sure? He said he had servers with internal storage... and now as a SC5020 - so sure, now he has a IPOD, but it sounds like before he was probably OK - each host was separate. Then the QNAP was a NAS file server.. and least that's the way I read it.
@scottalanmiller said in New storage... what about file server:
@dashrender said in New storage... what about file server:
@gros96 said in New storage... what about file server:
SC5020
Why is the file server not part of your SAN solution?
How many hosts do you have connected to your SAN?
SAN, by definition, cannot be a file server.
Not what I meant -
Why is a VM that's part of the hosts that use the SAN not acting as your file server?
