A Nice script we started using in addtional to our firewalls nice thing is we scripted it to be able to add to our palto alto and not just the windows box and even email us when it blocks it and what IP. : https://github.com/EvanAnderson/ts_block

@Dashrender said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

I used GP to for all versions of Office to default save as the old doc format. Even after we were converted over to everyone being on Office 2010 or newer, I didn't remove that GP - forgot about it, until 2013. Now all new documents are created in the new format.

Why the heck would you force legacy formats when there were updates for all the older versions that came out when OpenXML came out for them to be able to support them as well.

Is their RAID 5 true standard RAID 5? That makes a difference. EMC still recommends RAID 5 but it is not your standard run of the mill RAID 5 they have extra protections built into it. The use proactive sparing and already have a certain number of drives duplicated

We've had great service from all of our enterprise class providers. Centruylink was great as well, though they did have one outage caused by them replacing a border router and instead of putting the old one back when they saw it didn't work they keeped working on the new one's config for several hours before switching back.

@Jason said in WMI Filtering:

found this: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/5d549159-554b-4e64-bba6-aefebe475494/osd-skip-a-task-sequence-step-by-query?forum=configmgrgeneral

Yeah, the NOT is wrong, WQL doesn't contain a "not like" operator but you can move the not to the beginning of the condition to negate its       value. Thus, this will work
select * from Win32_computersystem where not (Name like "%W" or Name like "%W0[1-8]")

Worked like a charm

found this: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/5d549159-554b-4e64-bba6-aefebe475494/osd-skip-a-task-sequence-step-by-query?forum=configmgrgeneral

Yeah, the NOT is wrong, WQL doesn't contain a "not like" operator but you can move the not to the beginning of the condition to negate its       value. Thus, this will work
select * from Win32_computersystem where not (Name like "%W" or Name like "%W0[1-8]")

I'm trying to apply a group policy to computers that aren't named like using a wmi filter. However it tells me the syntax isn't correct. This guy even used the same one so has it changed or something? http://www.waynezim.com/2009/07/how-to-use-wmi-filtering-to-improve-group-policy-administration/

We had a small MPLS with them for a little while. Their service was great. I've never dealt with their residential side.

Is there a way to turn the LEDs off in the command line? I can turn the port LEDs for my Cisco SG300 off now that I found that I want to turn it off on all my home networking gear haha.

@Dashrender said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

That's what I read about opening DOC and XLS files in OpenOffice 7 years ago yet the visual output was nearly useless requiring massive formatting updates.

No it's not what you read. Doc and XLS was never an open standard. It was a closed specification. The OpenXML formats were designed from the ground up to be open.

@Dashrender said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

The bigger issue from my perspective is formatting. I tried converting 7 years ago - formatting was what killed us. Could it have been overcome, sure. But management decided against it.

DOCX XLSX are open standards and pretty much universal across office suites.

Thumbtack is totally different than angie's list. Angie's list is more about finding reviews. Thumbtack is about finding clients. It's actually very popular in the video production world and is very useful especially since Poptent went under

@MattSpeller said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

If I ever move a business off of the Office suite I know that I will be shopping extensively for a training company. Training budget will probably exceed the cost of whatever email/office solution I go for.

If they just use basic word processing features they want notice a difference hardly. It's when you get people doing macro's and forumla's that's the problem.

@pchiodo said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

Exactly. An email migration is going to cost well in excess of $5K when you take into account the tech time, the learning time, not to mention the lost productivity while everyone learns a new system.

I guess for SMBs migrations have a high cost but in large companies most of us are familiar with the majority of systems out their and can automate a migration in no time. granted when we move the cost could have been $5k in time. but that was for a lot of people. Like less than 10 cents a user.

The primary reason we migrate isn't overall IT costs of the system, it's operational cost. IE down time costs, user issues, business needs.

Now Microsoft office is something that's heavily scrutinized in our company, it's a very bloated system. We don't touch most of the features, and the update cycle makes o365 & SA not worth it. Word and Excel forumluas and macro's is what's used most in our company. We are stuck to it right now because we pay Microsoft to use some DLLs in our own applications (some excel stuff), along with paying Adobe to use some of theirs.

@Dashrender said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

Rackspace mail is $2 normally, and $1 last I heard for SpiceWorks users. Another $1/month if you want activesync. That's a noticeable potential saving.

Rackspace mail is junk.

@JaredBusch said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

@Jason said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

@JaredBusch said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

I would agree the Office 365 is expensive as most people use it in a package that includes access to the desktop clients.

Same here we just use Exchange online cause office isn't upgraded often enough for it to make finance sense for us right now, even with an EA.

That being said there are plenty of alternative's to exchange that are just as good.

for what cost though? G Suite is $5/user/month for the base plan.

Unless you want to host in house using open source (not recommended) or use something free like Zoho email (up to 25 users, 5GB per user) your aren't going to find it cheaper.

@JaredBusch said in Let's all get blindsided together!:

I would agree the Office 365 is expensive as most people use it in a package that includes access to the desktop clients.

Same here we just use Exchange online cause office isn't upgraded often enough for it to make finance sense for us right now, even with an EA.

That being said there are plenty of alternative's to exchange that are just as good.

@JaredBusch said in Apache Redirect IP Address:

@Jason said in Apache Redirect IP Address:

Have you tried it without using SSL? Off the top of my head I'm not 100% postivite but I believe most browsers may prevent url redirects with https for obvious reasons.

Nginx has no issues with it. It is a redirect after landing it should be fine. Nothing bad about that. The SSL path is still valid.

Very possible it might be iframes I was thinking of.

Have you tried it without using SSL? Off the top of my head I'm not 100% postivite but I believe most browsers may prevent url redirects with https for obvious reasons.

I don't use Xen Orchestra but I have to ask since this isn't windows why the heck are you using SMB instead of NFS?