@JasGot In my company, we use XCP-ng on 4 small hosts with maybe 10 VMs on them (2 Win RDP servers, few Linux fileservers...). We manage them with XCP-ng center (Windows app) in LAN and with Xen Orchestra remotely. We are very satisfied with XCP and management is pretty simple. We are no experts but beginners.
We cloned some VMs, copied them from host to host, added additoinal storage after installation...
I tried to install KVM few times and I find it confusing to setup and manage.
@WrCombs Mild case. Just like ordinary virosis (flu). Symptoms started on sunday. Probably brought by my 11 year old girl from school
One wide definition of project that I learned was that project is any situation where you need to complete more then one task to achieve a goal.
We tried Asana and Freedcamp and I think they are both good for tracking tasks/projects within team.
However, I have not yet found app that can fullfill all our wishes for tracking tasks within teams.
@scottalanmiller Thank you. I guess it would be nice to introduce myself...
I am from Croatia. Woking in SMB, non-IT company, and one of my roles is IT management.
I want to build small server that needs to perform these functions:
I thought to build it with this:
My questions:
@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Hey awesome, @MarigabyFrias and I are hoping to be in Croatia in April! Love it there.
Great! I'll be happy to buy you a cup of coffee if you're travelling through my area (Split) 
@scottalanmiller Yeah, that's annoying, and Win7 is not easy to install on most new hardware.
@DustinB3403 said in Is Open Source Really So Much More Secure By Nature:
I don't know that I would call Excel a great app. IMO it's mediocre at, while I agree it has some features other spreadsheet solutions are adding these too.
I do not see any other spreadsheet that matches (or outperforms) Excel.
In our company we use Excel and LibreOffice Calc as spreadsheets, but Excel is better for us.
We also tried Onlyoffice, but we were not satisfied very soon.
@scottalanmiller said in The Fundamental Flaw in Not Listening to the Boss:
But the average company does not do that and does not expect IT to actually provide guidance. Bigger companies, yes.
OK, but most average companies do not last long
the owners or business managers absolutely demand control of IT decisions and IT is just there to look pretty or something.
I think it's not problem who makes decisions - the real question is does management listen to their staff or expect them to "do what they're told to do".
Good management always listen to their subordinates.
@Pete-S Any Windows 10 licence will technically work in VM, from my experience.
But you need special licences to run W10 in VM if you want to respect MS licensing (W10 Pro or W10 Home license does not give you right to run in VM)
Old Windows 7 licenses were eligible to be run in VM.
Here is description of Win10 virtualization licenses:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/9/8/d/98d6a56c-4d79-40f4-8462-da3ecba2dc2c/licensing_windows_desktop_os_for_virtual_machines.pdf
@Mr-Jones said in Unable to send emails to Gmail from my domain:
Seems like a good time to try convincing the boss we should move our emails to O365. I know he'll say no, but this is ammo for sure.
I don't think that email only justify cost of O365.
I have excellent mail experience with different web hosting providers that provide email service included for a fraction of price of O365.
For example, Hetzner offers 300GB space with unlimited mail accounts for 17 EUR / cca. 20 USD a month.
(I have not used Hetzner's mail services but I have very good experinece with them in cloud/bare metal services)
I mean - you would not convince me to buy O365 with this argument
@scottalanmiller said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:
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OnlyOffice is a pretty nice alternative to MS Office. If they had an email client that would definitely be a huge plus for their product.
An email client? When would that be useful? All business email products have their own clients when needed and use web interfaces for most things (including offline handling.) Generally email clients as standalone things aren't considered a good thing (think the disaster that is Outlook.) I think no one offers one because no one should want it.
What are you looking to do with an email client? What's the use case?
I know lots of people still use Outlook because users are addicted to it. But if you are going to leave Outlook, you'd not move them to another fat client, but to the modern interfaces everyone offers.Outlook is so much better when using the PWA version, even with it you should be getting rid of the fat client!
Not for someone who has multiple email addresses. Having to constantly click back and forth to change the user account is not ideal.
Don't have that problem with my web client. That functionality is built in.
I use Thunderbird becuase I have few email accounts, and I do not like a single web client I use(d). I do not like Gmail nor online Outlook.
I did not even knew that they support multiple accounts.
Can you name some web clients that you like, and that support multiple accounts?
(btw - I hate emails as a communication tool)
@IRJ I agree with Scott. He was not describing object storage. He was describing approach when you try to keep all business data in applications, and avoid keeping business data and records in files (e.g. using excel files to store informations).
@scottalanmiller Problem with "your approach" is that you can do that with business data, but we still have problem where to keep business documents (e.g. scans of paper documents or original electronic documents like signed electronic invoices...).
That is where "object storage" takes its place as a better solution then keeping business documents as files in file system.
@gjacobse said in Does this speak to you?:
They posted his position to several job boards and I got notification this evening.
Have you received notification from job boards or from the management of the company you work for?
@fs483 I think Scott's suggestion to keep all permissions at top level folders is probably best practice.
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@Mario-Jakovina said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
We had Device RDS CALs, and things are very simple with them.
Can be, if you have locked down devices. But that's not related to the AD issue. AD isn't to make the CALs simpler.
Scott, you said that RDS requires, AD - and it is not true.
I am just saying, that RDS does not require AD and RDS is very simple with Device CAL,s and without AD - there is no "AD issue" in this scenario.
By the way - we did not locked down devices - devices just access RDS via VPN (or LAN)
@scottalanmiller Maybe it is complicated if you have User RDS CALs.
We had Device RDS CALs, and things are very simple with them.
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@Mario-Jakovina said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
RDS, sadly, has AD as a requirement. Although you can localize it and make it irrelevant.
What do you mean with "RDS has AD as requirement"
In my previous company, most of us used RDS, and we did not used ADYou have to, RDS won't deploy without it. When you go to install RDS it checks for AD and won't enable until you add it.
Well it is not true, because RDS is still there, and AD services are not deployed.
(I checked it)
@scottalanmiller said in How Do You Replace Active Directory?:
RDS, sadly, has AD as a requirement. Although you can localize it and make it irrelevant.
What do you mean with "RDS has AD as requirement"
In my previous company, most of us used RDS, and we did not used AD