@scottalanmiller Yeah its a starting point. Don't know if it will work how he wants it or not. I just remembered reading on a blog somewhere that it was being used.

@scottalanmiller Well ok, that looks promising for those who need that.

@brandon220 said in Hypervisors: revisit your choices!:

@JaredBusch Couldn't have said this better myself. I received the email from Veeam about the increase too, but all my current licenses are good through Dec 2020.
If there was a good backup solution for KVM, I would have zero Hyper-V hosts.

I think I heard Vembu does this. I don't use anything like this though but may be worth a look.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Yeah we got them

Will post some better ones when back off hols. Took 121 pics

Awesome, thats great.

@stacksofplates Thanks, good info. Im learning ansible now.

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing Office Suites:

Every picked up a new office suite?

Yes this is absolutely correct. Most Office suites are all very similar. Sure they have a few unique points here and there but when I tried zoho docs it really was like 10 min to cover everything. Libre, OnlyOffice, gsuite, wps, are all basically the same in my opinion. Takes very little time to learn a new one.

@Carnival-Boy said in Comparing Office Suites:

've been using Office for years and I'm still pretty rubbish with it (as in only using about 20% of its features),

i feel like this is the norm everywhere. No one uses much of the Office features. So why are people paying for all those features their organization wont use?

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing Office Suites:

All it takes is a company having Chromebooks, which while still pretty niche, are getting more and more common

Chromebooks are getting extremely popular in schools i will add. I go to local high schools all around to assist in dual credit registration and most schools in this area provide every student with chromebooks.

@scottalanmiller Personally I love LibreOffice and Zoho. There are very few things that Office365 can do that they don't. However most businesses I've seen use one of the Office versions and no one ever uses most of the features. Just too heavy also for my liking.

@Dashrender said in Re-evaluating Local Administrative User Rights:

@scottalanmiller said in Re-evaluating Local Administrative User Rights:

@Dashrender said in Re-evaluating Local Administrative User Rights:

As for software/viruii that don't require local admin rights, uhuhm - CHROME, rights levels don't matter.

Huh? Chrome isn't a thread because of this.... no admin access whatsoever.

This was an example of software that could be run in user space with zero local admin rights - nothing more. The remainder of that post (or a followup one) pointed out that I don't want to see users able able to execute an executable that wasn't installed by an admin - but I'm not sure that's possible, or really reasonable.

It is possible. I uncovered a few people doing it here at work. It came from some of the Office 365 installs where they were installing various apps on their own like Teams and such. In any other case they are not allowed to install anything on their own and no one except myself and 1 other has local admin rights to anything. So now I worry about some hacker who realizes this about Office365 and tries to phish our users using links that look like O365.