Posted On: Apr 1, 2020

Starting today, Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) General Purpose mode file systems support up to 35,000 read operations per second, a 400% increase from the previous limit of 7,000. Maximum write operations are unchanged at 7,000 per second.

General Purpose mode (GP mode) is the default performance mode for Amazon EFS. It offers the lowest per-operation latency and is the recommended choice for most applications. Amazon EFS also offers the Max I/O performance mode which can scale to higher levels of aggregate throughput and supports over 500,000 operations per second with slightly higher metadata latencies than GP mode.

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@gjacobse said in Windows 7 and PaloAlto GlobalProtect:

@BRRABill
Yup- that’s right. And have done so on several occasions. But when it isn’t an option because it’s not there, you cannot sign out.

No username- no sign out option

You cannot sign out if you never signed in. Killing the application would stop connection attempts.

@PhlipElder said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

So our company has finally decided to make the jump to all remote.

We are small (let's say 10 people) but we used to be large, so we have a AD domain.

You can do it, but I do suggest keeping a small domain controller on-premises for simplicity in management.

There is no on prem and using Colo for this would be wasteful. You don't gain anything from it.

@coliver said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@IRJ said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

As far as the data, moving it to the cloud is the only viable option for a remote workforce and company this size. Do you need instant access to the storage? if you could wait 3-4 hours to retrieve data, you can use an ultra cheap service like Glacier. (You can also pay extra for a single retreival if for some reason you need it in 15 mins). Glacier is about 20% less expensive than wasabi and offers 99.9999999% durability.
If you need infrequent, but instant access you can use S3 infrequent access which is approximately $12 a TB, and offers the same 99.9999999% durability.

Honestly with the storage included with most Microsoft 365 subscriptions Sharepoint/OneDrive is probably the way to go.

Agreed. I was talking about data archiving. Not using that for any type of user or document storage. That would be cruel to users to put their data in glacier haha

@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

For #2 ... I am thinking throw the common files onto SharePoint, and put everyone's "home" folder into OneDrive for Business. With 10 people, it won't be hard to do that for each user.

Yeah OneDrive is definitely the best option for storing user's files.

@scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@IRJ said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

With office 365, Basic AD is included

I thought Azure AD was, not AD? Is AD included, too?

No. I meant Azure AD. It is a SaaS service so I just figured that was already assumed.

@scottalanmiller said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

@BRRABill said in Moving from Physical AD/Data Server to Office365:

Keep some sort of AD authentication, or not?

Not likely. What purpose would it serve?

Managing SSO accounts with other SaaS services

I think there is definitely some benefit to using a directory, even for a small company. With office 365, Basic AD is included and you can also use a 100% free (for 10 or less users) of Jumpcloud which has a ton of integration.

As far as the data, moving it to the cloud is the only viable option for a remote workforce and company this size. Do you need instant access to the storage? if you could wait 3-4 hours to retrieve data, you can use an ultra cheap service like Glacier. (You can also pay extra for a single retreival if for some reason you need it in 15 mins). Glacier is about 20% less expensive than wasabi and offers 99.9999999% durability.

If you need infrequent, but instant access you can use S3 infrequent access which is approximately $12 a TB, and offers the same 99.9999999% durability.

@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome - unstable asf:

@IRJ Has this always been an issue from day one?

Nope. and yes @dbeato I have to use LTS as there are some things not supported on 19.10.

I havent had any issues since reinstalling gnome which I should have done earlier. It's been an issue the past month or two on a daily basis, but has gotten worse. Hopefully a reinstall fixed it. We shall see.

@dafyre said in Ubuntu 18.04 Gnome - unstable asf:

To test if it is something with Gnome, try a different desktop environment like KDE? That way you don't have to completely wipe and start over.

Yeah. I just reinstalled gnome. Let's see what happens. I do actually like gnome and would hate to change up.

My daily driver is having issues every hour or me where I need to restart network-manager and gnome-shell . Should I wipe the system completely? or Do you think I can somehow solve this instability.

I would say if you are able to install the latest version of the agent, it should still be supported. I can see maybe your network team saying that to force an upgrade of the OS. Teams will sometimes use excuses like that to push management to leave EOL systems.

https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/globalprotect/4-0/globalprotect-agent-user-guide/globalprotect-agent-for-windows/download-and-install-the-globalprotect-agent-for-windows

You could probably take away Major Project section and make that a bullet point under a role.

Also I like to list my skills under each role. It's any easy place to list your skills without using bulletpoints

Here is my more detailed feedback:

75% of your resume focuses on endpoints. Even if that is 75% of your job, I would not make it 75% of your resume. You want your resume to focus on where you are going, and what are you are capable of doing. We get it you can deploy printers and software. Why is that taking so many lines of your resume?

This doesn't seem like a major project to highlight on a resume

This project is better, but I would be more careful how I worded it. FOSS is not a no-cost solution. I also feel like the whole first sentence is a mess.

Uh, what?

Let me take a swing at this one:

• Replatformed physical servers to a virtual environment using Xen Server. Virtualization allowed better management, backups, and resource allocation to existing serves, and allowed for expansion due to the elasticity of virtualization.
• Supported Server 20008, Ubuntu 18.04, CentOS7, and company workstations (Windows 7 and 10)
• Leveraged virtualization to implement Disaster Recovery and Planning procedures and documentations
• Implemented Asset management using (whatever tool you used)
• Leave the Mobile fleet line out. Nobody cares about numbers of workstations you supported and especially printers. And who tf cares about laptops vs desktops?

Same thing about the numbers here. I do think it is important to mention a multi-site facility, but again nobody cares about the numbers and what you think is impressive is not really that impressive outside SMB. Not going to write these bullet points for you, but use my critiques above.

What's the difference between these highlighted points?

Way too much focus on endpoint management for a system admin role

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/configuring-and-using-monitoring-and-notifications-in-amazon-lightsail/

@scottalanmiller said in Large File Sharing:

@dave_c said in Large File Sharing:

Lucidlink may work. I have not tried it yet, but looks great.
https://www.lucidlink.co

Their site isn't loading here

lucidlink.com

@bnrstnr said in Extending range for WIFI video cameras:

Have you thought about powerline adapters? I've strongly considered them before, but never actually went through with the purchase. I'm skeptical, but they seem to get decent enough reviews

I haven't looked at those in awhile. So they seem to be pretty reliable?

@stacksofplates said in Extending range for WIFI video cameras:

The older ubiquiti APs can do a mesh setup. I did a bridge between two of them one time a long time ago. It worked ok.

That's really what I should be doing. I cannot easily run wiring in my house as I do not have an attic large enough to access. I guess I could pay for some professionals to do drops at some point.