You would still need the core licensing, but that is a per host minimum. If you exceeded that on any host you'd be uncompliant, without licensing those installations.

@Pete-S said in Tar gzip file compression calculation without decompressing the file:

@DustinB3403 said in Tar gzip file compression calculation without decompressing the file:

I guess a more relevant way to have expressed my question would have been to ask:

How do you verify what is in your tarball before you offload it in a quick and efficient manner?

I want to trust, but verify (as this is a backup).

Generally done with a hash of the files - sha-256, md5 or similar.

And how would that work from my source of unpacked files?

@Dashrender said in Phone solutions - something like Skype/Teams - why/why not?:

Why did they go this route?

Because management was hoping to have a unified communications platform (and pressure from even further up management)

@Dashrender said in Phone solutions - something like Skype/Teams - why/why not?:

What did they gain?

A headache and lots and lots of bitching about taking handsets away from people. Also an elevated blood pressure, more gray hair, increased stress, a simple "click to join" call functionality.

@Dashrender said in Phone solutions - something like Skype/Teams - why/why not?:

What did they lose?

Sleep, money, flexibility, mobility, functionality, compatibility with rather simple other needs

@Dashrender said in how to prevent non domain users from getting ip configuration:

This is the ultimate reality of the situation. If management doesn't have an issue with this - as much as it might pain you - you shouldn't have a problem with it either.

While I generally would agree with this stance, I could easily disagree because, and I suspect that once these shadow-IT operators wipe their systems and can't do their jobs, they immediately complain that "IT is stopping me from doing my work" which then likely gets the management team up in arms who then should at @IT-ADMIN.

This sounds familiar, I recall some piece of software doing this. I can't recall if it was AVG or Symantec.

@WLS-ITGuy give this a try, you may need to go back more than a year though.

So here is the script that I use, I use it to remove stupid characters from file and folder names, which also reduces the number of characters in the total path.

# Finds special characters in file and folder paths and replaces them with an null-space '' or hyphen (where it makes sense) and allows for quick find and replace functionality that would otherwise mess up a backup sync
# All errors are reported at the end of the run, making it easier to find something that needs attention (scroll hell) - should only print *true* errors and not " Source and destination must be different." a ~million~ times
# Use against a specific folder IE _Archive of some directory rather than an entire share for speediness otherwise target a drive letter D:\

(Get-ChildItem -Path "F:\Complete Projects" -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Name -replace '•','' -replace '®','' -replace '™','' -replace '','' -replace '','' -replace '~','' -replace '$','' -replace '','' -replace '','' -replace '','' -replace '/','' -replace '|','-'} -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable daError)
if ($daError.Exception.Message -match " Source and destination path must be different.") {
	Write-Output "ERROR - There was an error. Pay Attention : [$daError]"
	}

Has anyone else noticed that LibreOffice, Calc and Impress in particular run so slow? Anyone have any pointers on how to improve the performance.

Windows and OSX

So I got Wazuh setup and is operational with a few sample agents that I've setup, logs are going to Wazuh and I can see different events from each of my agents.

Now what should I setup with this, I'm looking to filter out more specifically failed attempts to access resources provided from these systems, specifically SMB shares, but expect to need to filter more.

I'm open to pointers.

On OSX, you have a ton of tools accessible to get all sorts of information, but what I'm struggling to figure out is how can I query for a specific printer name and then list the driver that that printer is using.

I would think lpstat -l -p <printer-name> | grep <drivername> would do what I want, but it's not.

If I look at the printer details within Printers and Scanner the "Kind" shows, which is what I'm specifically looking to determine via the command line.

Looking for guidance.

You could attempt enabling SMBv1 on a Windows 10 client and reattempt the connection, but SMBv1 has been depreciated for a few major reasons.

@Emad-R said in Best VAPT Service:

We want third party easy service and no we dont want Kali Linux boxes it just wont impress the client, any ideas ?

for web applications

Why do you need to impress a client? The client should only be getting an audit report (pdf xps etc) of what needs to be fixed. Not running the system themselves - because if they knew what tool to use and how to use it, they wouldn't be hiring you.

@scottalanmiller said in HelpDesk Options:

@DustinB3403 said in HelpDesk Options:

@scottalanmiller ZenDesk?

No, the free, open source one.

Zammad Community?

@coliver said in HelpDesk Options:

but most customization need to be done at the Ruby level

I'd rather have cacti in my eyes. . .

@scottalanmiller said in Why Do People Still Text:

Because people still aren't thinking about how messages are actually delivered and made available.

Qualifying @Dashrender as someone who thinks about how messages are delivered is a stretch. . . He appreciates modern approaches to modern messaging solutions (like iMessage, which isn't truly SMS).

Read receipts from email are dumb and worthless. Texting is also generally worthless as I've sent SMS that say "delivered" and the recipient never got them, or I never get their message.

Email communication is at least reliable from the try-again and error reporting functionality, but it's not a barn-burner type of communication method other than as you stated as an MSP you need things in writing.

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Do You Really Need Active Directory:

@Obsolesce said in SAMIT: Do You Really Need Active Directory:

So, if you get rid of AD, you'll also be getting rid of Group Policy and whatever else is in use with it. So, you'll not just be replacing AD and that's it, typically.

That's not correct, though. GPO exists without AD. It's part of Windows itself. You can, and still do, use it even when AD isn't there. That's part of the continuing myth that not only the part you point out that AD doesn't do what people think, but the second part is that the things that people think depend on AD, don't actually. SMB, GPO, etc. they all keep working without AD.

I understand what you're saying because on windows you can run gpedit.msc and get your local computer GP system.

The gotcha is no one in the world is using the local workstation settings for this, they are all using GPO Editor from an AD Server to push broad settings out.

@gjacobse said in Large MBOX file:

Thunderbird wants you to create the mailbox settings first.

This is part of a state investigation, so, no gmail account is available. This needs to be a free standing solution. While MBOX reports the ability to handle a 4GB file, it never finishes indexing.

you can add literally anything in, and bypass the process to actually create an account with Thunderbird.

Re: How to install SuiteCRM 7.8.3 on Fedora 25 Minimal

Just following up on this guide @JaredBusch wrote some time ago. Are you still using SuiteCRM and how has it performed and behaved since you deployed this?

@Emad-R said in Using GNU\Linux on your workstation is rubbish:

Good luck finding printer driver and PPD file and all the manual config to get quality prints, sure Linux may print, but my exp was bad margins. man its so left out google dont provide downloads for it gdrive client. everything is hack or workaround . why do we do this again ?

WUT?

You went from printer margins to gdrive issues and there not being a fat client..

@pmoncho said in HyperVisor:

@DustinB3403 said in HyperVisor:

@mroth911 said in HyperVisor:

What kinds of servers do you recommend. I have dell R710. Or should I look for getting better servers? I am going to get all SSD drives.

Those servers are perfectly fine servers, if you wanted to upgrade the storage that's perfect too.

No reason to purchase different equipment unless you needed too for whatever reason.

This is where I get confused. Isn't moving up to a 720-730 about the virtualization technologies in the CPU's vs just having newer processors?

In the past, I could not start VM's on Hyper-V on a Dell R300 because the CPU did not support EPT so I stuck with ESXI. I only have this example so I don't know if it applies with the 710 or not with the newest hypervisors.

I have not dealt with the R7xx line and have been mostly in the R5XX line or lower. Is that the difference?

Besides being older hardware, as long as the hypervisor of choice is/has been supported on them in the past (and is current) then they should work just fine.

Upgrading wouldn't hurt for sure, as you'd have relatively current hardware with warranty support (and likely better support from your hypervisor of choice).

But as with many of the topics posted by @mroth911 I'm thinking this is more a PoC than a production workload and would work perfectly fine.

No offense @mroth911, just so many of these topics are a 1-hit wonder and we never hear back, that and they are all so varied on what you're looking to do.