@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

There's you're first problem. It shouldn't be an IT thing. that's PR/HR and Legal's thing.

We don't have an HR department other than the CEO/Office manager.. no way she's going to handle this.. it will likely be assigned to me.

Then the question is, are you trained and prepared to act as the HR department or as the corporate attorney? It's important to recognize this as acting as those departments, are you paid, trained or able to operate in those roles?

Lots of SMBs mix roles, just important to recognize what capacity you are working in.

Nope - I suspect I'll be little more than a gopher for this. My boss hasn't even asked me to do anything yet, and she may simply decide that we are staying away from it.

Interesting. In my situation there are no routers only a switch between my PBX and their first box. And their box is locked down to only talk to my IP.

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

Used these instructions to create the ISO Store.
http://www.riverlite.co.uk/blog/xenserver-creating-a-local-iso-library/

XO makes it easy. You can just create one with their interface.

I suppose you could install the XO VM using a URL to pull the ISO for installation.

@Dashrender said:

@Carnival-Boy said:

I'd be tempted to replace the iPads with Windows tablets. A bit more expensive up front, and bulkier, but I feel you have so much more flexibility to control them under Windows.

Spending 10 hours a week to troubleshoot 20 iPads is just ridiculous and a huge expense.

Assuming I'm hired to work on this problem, I'll let you all know what the real problems are.

Well if the Meraki Backback does not work, they could setup ownCloud and make that an allowed app. Then the tech just have to swipe right on the folder to have it sync again.

Not as magic as a full MDM that pushes the files successfully.

@travisdh1 said:

@Dashrender said:

This one looks like it might work, but it still has a battery connector even though it's flash based.

"flash backed" means it'll store the contents of it's ram to flash when it goes to battery power, or am I missing something again?

Well that would make sense, but then Scott's early comment about NVRAM vs VolRAM wouldn't be correct, I wouldn't think - would they have three different options?

@Breffni-Potter said:

....Eh?

"EBay has patched a severe XSS security vulnerability which exposed potentially millions of users to phishing campaigns and subsequent data theft."

Do not understand, the article says they have patched it.

Sure it's fixed now, after -

Despite being informed of the bug privately, the online auction trading site allegedly left a critical XSS flaw open to abuse on the ebay.com domain, and only rallied to fix the issue after the media caught wind of the flaw.

They weren't going to fix it until public announcement embarrassed them to do so.

@Dashrender said:

@johnhooks said:

@Dashrender said:

only if you are trying to monitor everything on a network connection - and that it requires the use of port mirroring on the switch to be of any use.

If you ARP spoof you don't need that.

Is this a practical troubleshooting process? Spoofing MACs?

Oh no, not practical for troubleshooting. I was just pointing out it can be done without needing access to the switch. I wasn't trying to correct you, just pointing it out for anyone else reading through.

I don't know the source quote, so I'm not commenting on Apple's statement, but the Guardian definitely says that Apple said that the error itself was intentional:

"Apple has hit back at criticism of its controversial “Error 53” message on iPhones, claiming it is part of measures to protect customers’ security."

@LAH3385
Eventually I will end up where you are suggesting - though I currently use Dell's Appassure Replay, not Veeam.

Sigh - OK apparently I was adding the account in the wrong way.
Inside Outlook
File > Account Settings > Account Settings > choose your account and click change > More settings > Advanced Tab > Add > type in the name of the account.

Instead I was adding another account at the root level, the same as my own account under
File > Account Settings > Account Settings

Here is an article I found that helped me fix it.
http://www.it.northwestern.edu/collaborate/how-to/outlook2010-delegate-mailbox.html

@scottalanmiller said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:

@coliver said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:

@Dashrender said in Alternative to Azure AD - JumpCloud:

How do you get unified authentication in Linux?

IIRC Active Directory was in response to *nix based distributions having this ability a decade prior.

That's correct. Not just as a general concept, as things like NIS are quite old. Sun released NIS in the early 1980. It was replaced with NIS+ in 1992. LDAP was already popular on Linux by the late 1990s. Even kerberos was already in use on Linux at that time. By the time that Windows did AD in 2000, they were explaining it in terms of Linux to make people understand how it worked. It wasn't just that it was "like" what UNIX had, but that it was LDAP and Kerberos right from the UNIX world, just a Windows version of those exact services.

Good to know I have some of my IT history correct. I first learned LDAP on some old Gentoo boxes that my father picked up from the dump.

OK heard from my vendor.

They agree that the HPE website saying that iLo Essentials only supports DL380 e-series is kinda hidden and are going to see about refunding me that license.

As for the Insight Manager iLo license, they claim that it is what I need at the best price. That this license alone will allow me to run Insight Manager, and use iLo Advanced features all inclusive in this license, which seems odd as it's a less expensive license than just iLo Advanced by itself.

I'm currently downloading Insight Manger - I guess we'll see what I see.

Though I only have one server currently that I need/want to manage - running Insight Manger is overkill for one server. And, where am I suppose to run Insight Manager?

more digging.

OK solved this.

Ran a chkdsk in read-only and poof the problem was gone.

odd - it indicated there were no problems, but after I ran it in read-only it worked fine.

Yes it's sorted. Sadly, the 2003 iso I had it didn't help me.

I resorted to a Win7 iso to set the first partition to active so it would boot, problem solved.

My image above is pulled from OWA - which allows me to save directly to my ODfB while never touching or using my machine in any real way to make the transfer happen.

Yeah, not ideal.

Metal cutting and similar on old OSes isn't as scary as things like CT scanners. Getting a bug in a metal cutter is a little scary, getting one in a CT scanner is very scary.

Branch.

Well - continuing down the fan spin up, spin down saga - Today HP had me send them logs from iLo. Those logs showed that I am using a NIC firmware that they have since pulled (but it was in the service pack DVD ISO - so WTF?). They want me to downgrade the NIC firmware.

Of course, the single install file for NIC firmware is gui based, and even though you can extract the dozen or so files from the installer and run them direct, they don't have instructions for doing so.

So now I'm stuck downloading and old Service Pack DVD ISO so I can boot from that and downgrade my firmware. oh boy!