Cleaned my garage enough to get both cars inside for the first time in years.

@Carnival-Boy said in Installing VPN access on Windows Server 2016:

@scottalanmiller said in Installing VPN access on Windows Server 2016:

Or do you believe that the entire concept of hacking has been solved and doesn't exist today?

Oh, just forget it.

There's nothing to forget.

If you want security in depth, you need not only the security provided in Exchange, you also put a SMTP proxy in front to get another layer.

The same goes for normal port 80/443 stuff. The default settings of Exchange's implementation on IIS is by some considered lax. Install a much more locked down HTML proxy in front of it that prevents specific commands not needed by Exchange, plus a web server that has different flaws than Exchange IIS has, and you've again created a defense in depth.

I decided not to renew my Sonicwall support and add-on features pack.

I just received a call where the lady was basically telling me that the "world of IT" considers deep packet inspection critical to network security and that is one of the features I'm giving up by not paying for their continued subscription service.

Talk about scare tactics.

@scottalanmiller said:

@RojoLoco said:

Even 20 years ago, I knew servers who worked in average restaurants that would be pissed if they didn't walk with the equivalent of $25/hr or more every night.

Even decently well off waiters rarely make that these days. And wouldn't it be nice if people making $50K a year paid taxes like the rest of us?

@RojoLoco is absolutely right. When I eat at a steakhouse, the average bill for two people is $50. If I'm paying 25% tip that's $12.50 Assuming they have 4 tables an hour (If the steak place is any good, it would be more like 8 tables an hour) that person is making $50/hr for at least 4 hours, and you can assume they will average at minimum 1 table an hour at $12.50 in tips for the other 4 hours of their shift. Before the restaurant pays them a dime, they've already made $250 for the night for an average of $31.25/hr.

Now I'll agree that 25% average tip is probably ridiculously high compared to what they actually get, so let's say they get 18%. That puts them at $180/night, $22.50/hr. This seems completely reasonable. But you might even drop it some more and just say that they average $20/hr.

I doubt the restaurant is going to raise the prices of plates 18%+ so they can pass along that level of wage to the employees.

If we're talking about fine dinning - Those guys are definitely much closer to the 25% numbers, and with average bills in there between $80-200, now those guys are making between $40-120K/yr Again, don't see the restaurant passing that kind of bread along to the wait staff.

What's the purpose of doing this versus using the pure Hyper-V install?

Agreed - I'm more interested in a topic that will tell us what tools are good for this versus some vendor just saying - yeah we do that.

We seem to be having an influx of vendors recently. Are ML threads being indexed so quickly by Google now that vendors are finding our posts about them, and they are floating somewhere near the top of the list so vendors are joining the forums to respond to our topics?

At least the shift key under the Enter key on the right side of the keyboard is full sized! I really get frustrated when they put a small one there an stick in some third party key.

I'm trying to understand sudo.

I can add my username to sudo via visudo, but I'm not really sure where the best place to put it is?

Perhaps I'm to small a shop (single IT person) to worry about using sudo, and instead should stick with SU, since I know the root password since I'm a one man shop?

I can definitely see its strengths when needing to provide root level access to limited functions, but in my case I'm the only person who will likely ever run anything on this server, at least directly.

Installing my brand new Eaton 5S1500.

@scottalanmiller said:

Human error is big and I've seen some pretty dramatic ones. It's more likely on an MSA than on local storage.

Your example in the Scale panel at SWorld was pretty epic. The woman who delete the wrong thing and had sudden health problems on top of the company being completely down.

You're 'wasting' time making a sale with higher margins instead of spending time working on non money making operational things? Clearly he doesn't understand what the hell is going on.. and if his opinion matters but you can't get that through to him... then you have little choice but to move on... which I thought you were doing already?

@Dashrender said:

Installing my brand new Eaton 5S1500.

OK I want a refund.. the manual doesn't tell me I have to connect the battery

@shuey said in Advice on building "storage servers" with two DL380 G7 servers:

@dashrender LOL, that's an upgrade for us! We're still running Server 2008 R2 on almost every server in our fleet!

That's fine, but if you are upgrading - skip the 2012's and go directly to 2016. It's already a year old. It's clear your company doesn't upgrade often, no point in being 5 years behind already.

In fact, I'd wait, 2016 R2 is currently in beta. Don't buy and wait for it to come out if possible, that way you can get the most value for your purchase.

And you'll need to make sure virtualization is enabled in the BIOS, by default it was not.

@travisdh1 said:

@gjacobse said:

LOL - have children and find out.

Easier said than done. I'd be willing to give it a try, but it's kinda hard as a single male

I am 40 years old and have NO desire to have my own children. I rent them from time to time from my wife's siblings, but uh, no thanks on having them myself.

One good thing... It will probably allow Windows 10 to take over the desktop in no time. Bringing everyone to the same security level....it's odd but I think in the long run it will be good.

@dafyre said:

Sometimes there is no clear-cut best. Sometimes it takes experimentation. A product demo isn't necessarily going to cover all of your bases. Even a 30 day demo in your own environment might not cover all of the bases. This is where a lot of the SMB market can struggle, I think. Once an SMB is invested in a certain way of doing things, then that way is difficult to change, especially when trying to cost-justify a change.

This is one of my personal big issues - Once you've invested, it's really hard to let that investment go. Not only because you just spent that money/time/resources but because you might end up in this same exact spot after moving to the next product. You just paid this non-trivial amount to learn that this solution didn't work, and you might end up doing that again and again - puts some into a parallelized state.
This is compounded many fold when it's a major business app like an ERP or EHR (electronic health record). For example - there is no trialing an EHR. You basically have to look at someone else who is using it, ask all the questions you can, watch their workflow and guess - will it work for me? To setup a demo/test in your environment requires you to fully implement it (at least for a limited user base), and that is nearly as expensive as fully deploying it.

@scottalanmiller said:

It's easily trolling. There has been a bit of that with this kind of post there.

His profile says he's been in IT for 21 years - I was thinking that must have been 21 years building white box computers, and a bench worker.. not really in IT.

“When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin

We are very nearly there now.