@beta said in Router/firewall recommendations for small branch office:

I forgot to ask, who do you guys like for Wireless Access Points? We'll probably need to add a few of those too. Currently our main facility is covered with Cisco APs and a 5508 controller. I don't think we're going to need that many APs for this location obviously.

We had a Cisco 20K solution here originally. I dumped that and replaced it with a Ubiquiti Unifi AP solution.
The controller is free software that runs on my VM host, but could just as easily run in a VPS like Vultr for $5/m. APs were $90 or so each, 15 of them, $1350 plus my time to install them (the previous 20K included their installation).

I'm pretty sure Unifi APs weren't around when the Cisco's went in in 2007, but damn did we save a bundle this upgrade time around.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I feel like MS gave up on Teams and just hasn't announced it yet. This is all I've gotten for a month.

I saw something recently about business users being migrated off Skype to use Teams as MS moves to eliminate Skype next year. I don't remember where, though.

Skype for Business is a dead product, MS no longer sells it, They only sell Teams, and are pushing hard to get their existing customers to move to Teams.

Skype (consumer) still exists and it better than both SfB and Teams imo.

yeah - how sad is that - the consumer product kicks the crap out of the business products they've been floundering with for a decade plus. Granted it's not as featureful (I assume at least) as the business products, but still! Why can slack have what they have, and MS is just crap? how did Zoom come in here and eat MS's lunch for video conferencing - just WTF MS?

@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Fredtx said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@black3dynamite sick students must stay home.... how do they determine who is sick? Testing is not free, at least not here. Who is determining if they are sick?

The thing is, of your kids are sick, it's most likely not Covid19.

And even if it is Covid-19, most kids won't even notice they have it. They could have a small cough or 1 day of low grade fever. Or no symptoms at all.

https://kfor.com/news/oklahoma-records-first-child-death-from-covid-19/

Death is a non-symptom, for sure.

You seem super focused on the individual, and not the masses. There's nothing wrong with that. But it's definitely important to look at the big picture too.

If you solely focus on a single death, there would never be an uprising against oppression, etc.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

School today is nothing like when I was a kid, for example.

oh, how is it different for you?

HS for me is pretty much the same. Late'ish Aug - Late'ish May bus pickup between 6 and 7:30, drop off sometime between 3:30 and 5:30.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

solid point - at least I currently think so - how long has the modern school setup been in place? i.e. k-12 go to school m-f 7'ish to 3:30ish?

I think since around the 1930s. It's more recent than you'd think. And it's not universal and still changing. The ages, times, length, purpose, keeps evolving. School today is nothing like when I was a kid, for example.

not really more recent that I would think. I figured it was likely between WWI and WWII, we definitely see the normalcy of it by the 40's, though I can't say I know of any references to the earlier than that. though unrelated, single room schools existed long after this timeframe.

@dbeato said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

@Dashrender said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

@WLS-ITGuy said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

@Dashrender said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

@dbeato said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

Fix for this is to revert to an earlier version of Microsoft. I have a .bat file here

https://github.com/dbeato/scripts/blob/master/Office 365/Fix-Outlook-Restart.bat

Do you know - does this only affect O365 Office users?

So far Windows O365 users are the only ones that are chirping to me. I do have two users who aren't on O365 who aren't complaining...yet.

Right - I'm 100% non O365, and no chirps yet - WSUS is used here, and those office updates are approved to push.

What Office version? Office Click-to-Run would be affected, Office 2013 and up would have been affected.

I have zero click 2 run - I'm all office 2016

@Obsolesce said in Force Microsoft Store apps to update:

@JaredBusch said in Force Microsoft Store apps to update:

I've been hitting a bunch of machines lately that need updated and one thing I noted was that the Store apps were seeming to never update by themselves while I had the device.

I could manually log in and open the Store app, and then click through to the updates and then tell it to update. But man that is a pain..

A little searching and I found this gem. Execute this, it takes a while to return, and then the Store apps begin to update in the background immediately.

Get-CimInstance -Namespace "Root\cimv2\mdm\dmmap" -ClassName "MDM_EnterpriseModernAppManagement_AppManagement01" | Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName UpdateScanMethod

Why don't you just turn on the update apps automatically option?

There's also a policy setting.

I thought that was ON by default?

@WLS-ITGuy said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

@Dashrender said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

@dbeato said in Outlook failing to open from multiple customers...:

Fix for this is to revert to an earlier version of Microsoft. I have a .bat file here

https://github.com/dbeato/scripts/blob/master/Office 365/Fix-Outlook-Restart.bat

Do you know - does this only affect O365 Office users?

So far Windows O365 users are the only ones that are chirping to me. I do have two users who aren't on O365 who aren't complaining...yet.

Right - I'm 100% non O365, and no chirps yet - WSUS is used here, and those office updates are approved to push.

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

Mom & Dad homes or dual guardian homes, then it has the potential to be easier, but not necessarily. There are FAR TOO MANY variables at play, and the "Scott's World" ideology of "everyone should be able to be home and school their kids perfectly" just isn't what happens in practice. What "should be" isn't at all and is rarely what "is".

So what I said was many, not all. And the whole school concept disregards all those people who can't work the same schedule as school. Work overnights? Screwed... now you work AND have to deal with your kids at school.

School isn't some silver bullet. The government taking over the care and education of kids isn't a silver bullet. Governments are often exerting this control, people have given in to it because it feels nice to not have as much responsibility or they feel trapped, and society has conformed because it had to. Skip school in this manner, and society will adapt to that new normal. Make school be centralized but online, we'll adapt. Make school be at night, we'll adapt. Different people get benefits or screwed in different scenarios. You are using "people have already adapted" as if school changing wouldn't need to result in jobs changing. But it changed in the twentieth century, and the system is garbage, so why not make people adjust again, but to something actually good?

solid point - at least I currently think so - how long has the modern school setup been in place? i.e. k-12 go to school m-f 7'ish to 3:30ish?