Look what arrived today !
Home wifi upgrade

Passed my CWNA today!

Wife left. Took the kids. House is MINE till Monday! First order of business...clean!

My 4 year old is better to talk to than most adults!

PTO today kids off school. Doing a tour of Playgrounds today wit them

My oldest is 9 TODAY! Last year of single digits

We have our own fixed wireless, pair of Ubiquiti AirFibre 24's connecting 2 buildings about 1/2 mile apart, on towers @50ft. So far even during electrical storms we have had NO issues with dropped packets or sync loss, even with tower sway in the winds. Now, our past winter was not as snowy as a normal winter so I am not sure yet how it will behave when we get one of our infamous lake effect storms but so far absolutely no issues. Key was having a professional radio company actually do the installation and line up of the dishes where they had 1 guy on each tower and 1 ground guy at each site to assist with line up.
Locally, we have a fixed wireless ISP that offers traditional Internet, MPLS, and IPVPN services. I know one of the service/operations managers there and he says most issues be traced to bad alignment of the antenna (wind over time twists the mounts causing mis-alignment) or customers not getting enough height (rather not PAYING for enough height) to clear limitations like trees. Works well in the winter when no leaves, but come spring and summer the leaves deflect the signal and speeds drop. Any fixed wireless needs an annual look-see to make sure clamps are still tight and alignment is still ok.

Finally...got an older server here to boot Hyperv2012R2 from USB for a little experimentation

In case you didn't see, the webinar is now up on their site:
https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free-all-restrictions-removed

Catching up from a week off, realizing didn't get a thing done i wanted to whiel on vacation (as is usually the case, kids in the swimming pool take priority over freepbx installs)

@jaredbusch This. Just got word form a former co-worker their new company is hiring (getting resume together this morning to send over). Current job was same wasn't even posted just got in becasue I knew a coworker. Important to keep networking with fellow associates and former co-workers you never knwo what turns up.

Updating resume and cover letter, former co worker has an open position at their new gig

@gjacobse Im doing the VHF conteest today from home, tons of noise not many contacts. Waiting for our big 12-18 inches of snofall they're predicting overnight and I have an appoint I have to be at tommorow no matter what

Reviewing this, not sure if accurate or lots of already known things
Yealink phones not so secure??
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2022/01/common-office-desk-phone-could-be-leaking-info-chinese-government-report-alleges/360500/

@dashrender Option 2 doesnt work for us; seems Microsoft Protection keeps blocking our IP addresses as spam sources (most of our sites are using DHCP for outside IP). Plus, isn't Microsoft requiring SMTP Auth (unless you specifically opt out and use a different relay connector or something, can't remember).

We use Xerox and have a specific account set up in O365 for scan to email. We found option 1from.here was the only one that worked. Stinks that we have to burn a license for it.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mail-flow-best-practices/how-to-set-up-a-multifunction-device-or-application-to-send-email-using-microsoft-365-or-office-365

@dashrender as am I and still reading up on it/figuring it out

@gjacobse saw your earlier post will be looking into that

End of year PTO for me. Rethinking home office layout as 2022 we will be shifting gears and i will need some bench space for working on Autopilot deployment. Our E5 licenses were approved so major security overhaul next year

@wrcombs A number of people here have side consulting jobs I know @EddieJennings set up an LLC and does some work and got great advice from the forum. I've been reviewing it myself as I see mycompany dwindling down and Im looking for some new opportunities in 2022.