Best posts made by krisleslie

@dbeato OrangeHRM is "easy" but can be inflexible. Got a little experience with it. It's my ace up my sleeve if all else fails.

Yes it is a modified version of osTicket and I've been using it since they made it. Works fine for most things. I like the network scanning feature.

Considering everything is free up until the A/V it's worth it.

Technically it's "free" but they will ask you for a license fee for the advanced stuff. They make their money off the licenses, not the hosting per se.

@scottalanmiller it's not 100% equivalent, but it's better in some cases. The only thing most people are losing (which can be created) is reports. Support can help rebuild reports with you on the phone. Easy peasy. One less thing to troubleshoot in the grand scheme of things. QB on a desktop sucks so bad they don't even know why it breaks at times! For the average small business, Quick Books has been the goto app for years and decades. So I totally agree with going to Xero, Wave, and other cloud-first initiatives but getting that wrapped around anyone short of being a millennial is a tough battle. I see very little benefit of a non-web-based version. In this day and age, the api's of those web-based apps work so much for you especially when you have other types of PSA's in place that you want to use. Trying to tie in Quick Books on the desktop to something web-based cost more and is a bit more time-consuming and limited.

Morning fellas, following back up with everyone. I have successfully updated to XCP-NG 8.0 release for the hypervisor on my affected server. I have swapped out the flash drive (still don't think it had a memory issue, just think there was some corruption of the file system) and used a brand new flash drive (128 Gb as the location I install the hypervisor to. I was able to get back to my data on the SR.

So to mitigate this from happening again, I have cloned the flash drive, backed up the metadata properly in 2 locations and confirmed my backups are running fine. I have also moved the logs to a Linux logging server.

What I will say is that I wasted 3 hours because the commands I had to run had only 1 critical mistake the guides below didn't explain. Other than that, things are getting back to normal. I thank everyone who participated in helping me and I appreciate you.

Resources:

https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136342#Restoring the Mappings
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX136342

Alternatively, you could and an external gfx card adapter. I got one, works like a charm.

@scottalanmiller so we have finally got the Microsoft Non-Profit entitlement for Office done. They did hit me with a "gotcha" that I can't use Google as a storage point for the free version, smdh. I would prefer to deploy all Chromebooks, let them use office 365 but have access to google storage. Training people is going to become a hard one. I had the fun of training 6 nurses (all over 50) on being my trial run of taking a team and moving to the Google Sphere lol. Took a few months but they are getting the hang of things and finally, are seeing some shine. All the students at a rate of about 99% use Chrome OS, that 1% is for times they have to go to another lab which only has windows pcs in it. The students pick up fast for about 80% of everything you show them. These are underserved sometimes less computer-savvy students.

It's going to be hard to teach some of the staff to consider using Microsoft OneDrive vs Google Drive vs local server vs their local desktop/flash drives.

I have given up on ZT at the moment. While I got it to work with pretty much any device (without needing AD), getting the AD to work reliably has been a battle. I kinda do miss the AD Client from Pertino.

I'm met with a dilemma in that I have 3 offices (and potentially more offices to come) that I want to link up to one AD controller vs having one at each site managed separately.

Off top I can think of a few options to help remove the dependence of Excel. This is a short list.

Microsoft Power Apps
Google App maker
Quickbase
Zoho Creator

ZeroTier (with Flow rules) + RDP is how I solved this for my clients.
Can you make a guide I'd be interested in that read.

@krzykat there is nothing stopping you from installing Chrome OS. I do it to devices that are beefy. Nothing like having Quad core cpu, 16 GB of RAM and a decent ssd. It really takes the pain off of my base device since I basically remote into stuff all day. They are planning on including Steam soon so that will improve the gaming but you can game already on them from Android store.