@Dashrender said in One man IT shop looking for additional help options when needed. Hire a MSP?:

@JasGot said in One man IT shop looking for additional help options when needed. Hire a MSP?:

A topic in Self Promotion for ITSPs and their geographic area may be helpful to this group.

ITSPs aren't limited by geography.
I know what you're trying to say - you'd like to see someone post where they have remote hands immediately if they are needed without waiting for a flight, etc...

Yes. That seems to be what most of us are missing with national support.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@JasGot Are you trying to say something I don't get or what?

It's a free product with paid support available that you are not using. Keep your demands and expectations in check. You'll experience less stress.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@JasGot It's free (FOSS). We are just paying for hosting it.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

but we switched to it due to pricing advantage.

right......

We see issues like this with Outlook 2016 for MAC on O365 when there a more than 10,000 items (not necessarily messages) in TOTAL for the profile.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/known-limits-in-outlook-for-mac-467f48cd-fef6-4a1e-9d1a-47883aeaa53f

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@DustinB3403 Thank you.
I must say that I am a bit disappointed with Nextcloud. This should be normal feature.
We already had few serious issues with it (bugs with mainstream Intel GPU never solved etc.) but we switched to it due to pricing advantage.
However, I can't say it is as reliable as Dropbox, so far.

What does Nextcloud cost?

@VoIP_n00b said in Windows Print to PDF recommendations:

@JasGot FREE only for non-commercial use

What's your point? (That wasn't already stated clearly in my post?)

A topic in Self Promotion for ITSPs and their geographic area may be helpful to this group.

Our preference is:
PDF X-Change Printer Lite

We started using PDF-Xchange Printer Lite when you could buy the full version independently. Now you can only get the full version as part of another product.

We currently have PDF-Xchange Editor (includes PDF-Xchange Printer Lite) on every workstation. Not sure if we could survive without now, it has become part of our daily tools.

Lands in the LOVE category you asked for....not the free category; not sure about Chocolatey.

Came in this morning to several end users that with kb:5000802 re-installed. I though MS took it down?

There is a PSWindowsUpdate module that can be used to block a single update, but it comes from Microsoft Gallery with is user populated and not verified by MS. So I m looking for another command-line-only wau to block KB5000802

If you're a brave soul, or want to go verify the module yourself, here are the commands:

Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force
Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate
Install-WindowsUpdate -NotKBArticle "KB5000802" -AcceptAll

@travisdh1 said in Windows 10 BSOD When Printing:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 BSOD When Printing:

Dymo's post about the problem.

https://www.dymo.com/en-GB/software-fix

Removing the update didn't work for us. Still getting blank labels. Monday I'll check if that software from that article is a working version of DYMO Connect.

They've had a working version of the DYMO LabelWriter software out, but that doesn't provide an API that a website can use to print labels with, which is what this client uses the printers for.

We've had to fix this over 200 times this past week.

WHEN IT INVOLVED A PC WITH ONLY a DYMO, not every case had the KB5000802 update, so we just stopped removing that update and went straight to this process every time. It had work every time for us. If there was a Dymo AND a Kyocera, we continued removing KB5000802.

• BACKUP UP YOUR Labels if you created any labels with a newer version of Dymo. 8.5.4 will not see than, but it will delete them.
• Unplug the USB Cable from the Dymo.
• Uninstall Dymo Software.
• Load Print Management and remove the Dymo Driver and Package.
• Restart the PC.
• Open Print Management again and WAIT for the DYMO driver to go away (can take up to 3 minutes after the reboot in our experience).
• Open Device Manager, Expand Printers and make sure the Dymo is gone from the Printers area.
• Install Dymo 8.5.4
• Plug USB cable back in.

This procedure has work every single time on more than 200 workstations this week.

This showed on my FYP at TikTok today. It is cute and informative about a similar PepWave device

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMehAfBH8/

I patched one and since the patch, cannot connect with Exchange Powershell. I didn't realize how dependent I have become on powershell until became unusable on this server.

Been pulling my hair out over this for days.....

@Dashrender said in At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Exchange:

My comments come from the "Zero Day" standpoint. Cloud providers have the same level of Risk for Zero Day exploits.

@Dashrender said in At Least 30,000 U.S. Organizations Newly Hacked Via Holes in Microsoft’s Exchange:

All the more reason to move to hosted/cloud services.

True. In a normal on-prem scenario, the Admin to Company ratio is usually 1 to 1.

In a hosted/Cloud environment (MS365), the odds are very high that when an admin patches the server, it will be a 1 to MANY (and perhaps hundreds or thousands of MANYs!)

No less risk in a hosted/Cloud environment, but certainly more customer mail systems get patched faster.

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 and Volume Shadow Copies and Group Policy Objects:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bf0dbaab-8bd9-4437-a599-59d0c531697a/rolling-out-volume-shadow-copy-via-group-policy-windows-10?forum=winserverGP

This talks about

gpmc.msc is the correct tool to use. (gpedit.msc won't display the security/services items)

I'm building GPOs on the server so I have to use gpmc, gpedit will not build gpos.

That article is good, I've been heading down each rabbit hole it reveals, It may be leading me to the solution.

Thank you for the link. I'll report back with the actual link that worked if I am successful.

Age of server is a primary question to answer before deciding to add/replace/upgrade.

Is it a true RDS environment? Old Fashioned terminal server providing a server OS to the users?

What OS is on the current server? And if you add a server, what OS will it have? This may impact your RDS and Cal licensing.
If you are not adding users, and can maintain the same server OS on the new server, you will not need additional licenses beyond the Server.
RDS Cals and User Cals connect to any server in the domain their license allows them to. (Poor grammar, but I think you'll get it.)

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 and Volume Shadow Copies and Group Policy Objects:

2 second google search turned this up.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/file-server/volume-shadow-copy-service

not sure it's what you need though.

That is a good article, but it doesn't address Group Policy Objects at all. This is the problem I keep running into.

Google is letting me down. I can't find any information about using a GPO to:
a) Enable Volume Shadow Copy Services (sometimes called: Previous Versions, and sometime inaccurately called File History)
b) Turn on VSS with the default or a custom schedule.

Has anyone here done this via a GPO?

Thanks.

After much research and testing. I chose: gSyncit v5 https://www.fieldstonsoftware.com/software/gsyncit5

So far I am happy with it. It certainly resolved the sync issues I started having with Companionlink that they could not sort out.
It was the only reason I went looking for another option.

It's too bad they couldn't sort it out, I really liked the Calendar widget in their Android DejaOffice product much better than the native calendar widget.

So, our phones and PCs with any combination of Google Calendar (we don't use gmail) and MS Outlook are all in sync now (once again!)

Hmmmm.....

There are two releases per year: January, 31th and July, 31th.