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

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)

On Dell you can install OpenManager right on the host (if running Hyper-,V I think @JaredBusch has a guide on here somewhere) and use that to monitor it and email alerts or send SNMP traps.

@marcinozga We demo'd Unitrends about 2-3 years ago for our one VmWare ESXI server. Was OK speed wise for backups and restores. Licensing seems expensive compared to Veeam so we did not go that route.

@flaxking constant. We have 2 apps not vetted by us that were chosen by management that must have rights to the program files folder. Apps won't pass security audit

@gjacobse we have Yammer as part of our O365 package. I do not have details about the how as I was not the one who set it up. I will see if I can get more details

@gjacobse we use Sharepoint/Yammer for this.

@gjacobse second on Viking we use and resell them

Back to stress for me. PTO was great but now back into teh home office I go.
Big project have to be SOC/CMMC level 1 audited and pass by end of the year.

@dustinb3403 lots of street flooding here in Amherst, rain gauge recorded 3 inches by 4pm here

Finally on PTO, week off of work to get projects done at home, or at least not in the room we use as an office

@gjacobse corruption in the raid array itself usually a disk error but not enough to flag the drive as bad unfortunately for me. Previous admin did a raid 5 not a raid 10 thus I am backing g up data while waiting for drive replacements to arrive

@travisdh1 yeah my other shoe dropped this morning.. Punctured stripe on a raid 5 on a del server in a remote office. Doing backups now as I did not get any error until this morning.