Posts made by DustinB3403

So did you buy a few lottery tickets?

Exactly... for another part time employee we are giving her a credit towards her monthly cell phone bill..

With 99% of everyone else, I have to manage 70 people and their crap..

Sorry but if I get grumpy at you for losing your 3rd phone in a month, and even help you get Find my iPhone setup, and you still lose it, the issue is going to HR.

Does anyone else manage the cellphone plans and hardware for the employers? Do you feel you get constantly asked about items outside of your control.

Q: I think my phone was stolen, can you track that?
A: No, no we can't track it, if we were tracking your phone you'd sue the crap out of us. . .

Q: I broke another phone, can that be replaced?
A: Probably, but I can't approve you going to getting the screen replaced at some mall kiosk I'm not your boss.

Q: I know my phone was stolen, how can I track it?
A: You had an iPhone right, so use Find My iPhone. .
Follow up Q: How can I sign into Find my iPhone

/facepalm

There's Nitrobit which is an Open Source WSUS that runs on Linux, and there is some paid options (of what I'm not sure). This would still have to be run on something, as a VM or physical machine.

Besides that I've never really seen or used anything else, and I've only ever used WSUS.

Nitrobit may work well enough as you'd have 1 less machine to worry about, generally speaking with regards to viruses etc.

Are you only concerned about Windows patches, or Windows and all 3rd party software?

Well which is more of a concern for you, the client being Out of Date with security patches, or taking 2GB and 2vCPU's to run a server?

Which is more beneficial to the client?

Ah....

Sorry for the confusion then. Do they have the resources to run another WSUS server and proper licensing? It really is quite a simple solution.

PDQ Deply has options for 3rd party app updates etc, but requires annual renewal.

@JaredBusch said:

@DustinB3403 said:

I would set them up to point back to your main WSUS server

There is no WSUS server in place now. Hence the point of the question.

For now, I updated the SBS GPO to "Not Configured" so the machines will pull updates down.

My only concern with downloading updates directly from Microsoft is that there isn't anything for force those to complete the installation. Unless you have another GPO that performs weekly reboots.

I may have assumed, but is this a client, or a remote site?

Is there any reason they can't use your main WSUS server? (Again assuming you have 1 running off site)

I know there is none running on site as it was deleted in March.

I would set them up to point back to your main WSUS server (if you have one, and they have access to the main site)

Updating the GPO to point to a different WSUS server for such a small office would only take a few minutes to change, and maybe an hour to propagate.

@Ambarishrh I had such a cable for an old line tester except that it had an RJ45 and RJ11 plug so I could easily tone to different lines.

Yeah it's a hack job, but it worked for what I needed.

Running 2 printers off of something like this, yes it's shady but it works.

@dafyre said:

@Ambarishrh At least they ar dev servers!

Dev as in "In development" or Production...

Very good description of the different enterprise platforms that exist. Is there any work on a write up about the possible use cases of each, and where one might fit better than another for any given set of reasons?

Or Amanda, or Create Synchronicity to create incremental backups off host.

I haven't used either at a large scale solution, Create Synchronicity works great though on any given users system to make incremental backups.

@Dashrender said:

Dustin,
Does NAUBackup have incrementals? It does not appear so in the documentation.

No, it is strictly a running state backup tool. It does however cleanup after it's self. Removing the Snapshot from Xen's local storage, and will remove old backup's after the default of 4. (this default can be changed)

So it's quiet nifty in what it offers for free. For incremental (file level backups) I'd use a separate tool (especially if on a Windows File server) such as Shadow Protect.

@hubtechagain said:

what's the word on this? i'm about to move a client to xen simply for the fact that esxi free doesn't offer any sort of replication/DR very simply.

I would move them just for the functionality of Xen. You aren't required to use Xen and HA-Lizard together.

Using NAUBackup you can make scheduled VM backup's to an NFS/CIFS server and XenServer Patcher apply patches from the CLI.

@scottalanmiller said:

Applies to any blind swap system. "To you" the Lacie is hardware RAID...

http://mangolassi.it/topic/5872/how-to-replace-a-failed-drive-in-hardware-raid

I previously read it, the same day in fact that this drive started to have issues. It was very well timed reminder.

I figured. . .

Finally got a replacement drive for that LaCie, as it finally said "Hey this drive is bad" (Red LED on drive 2).

Anyways It's been installed since yesterday afternoon, and appears to be syncing. Drive 1 is a solid or near solid blue. Drive 2 is blinking 3 times rapidly, and off for a second.

3,0,3,0,3,0 and this repeats.

Anyone have anything else I should do besides wait for this to finish. Hopefully it'll finish soon, I'd like to get this off of my desk.