Anyone look in to encrypting files synced with One Drive for Business or Google Apps that are synced with the local hard drive? Is bit locker pretty much the most straight forward way of dealing with that?

For those that have deployed bit locker, if a hard drive won't boot and you can't repair it, is there any way to get files off the drive if you slave it in another machine?

Also I know that Avaya practiced "security through obscurity." There was a common back door password in to all the Avaya systems.

I am employed because people that are great lawyers, architects, engineers, etc, don't know what a domain name is.

I told the owner to ask for the password to the domain name before I took over and the MSP sent him a list of users accounts and passwords for their windows domain. I told him to go back and ask for the password that will let him update his website and he wouldn't provide it. At that point the owner asked me to take over.

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP won't give up domain name:

That's not an IT job, that's a business consultant job. You are there because they are not managing their businesses correctly. So your role isn't MSP here, it's "doing the CEO's job".

OK, so I'm a CEO consultant. I don't care because I help people and make a living at it by knowing stuff they don't. My business is doing very well because there a plenty of guys out there they tell owners things like "that's not IT's job" and leave the owner hanging.

Please encourage IT guys to do this. It's great for my business.

@scottalanmiller said in old MSP won't give up domain name:

But in the past, you were dealing with the owners of the domain, right?

In the past it was pretty much the exact same thing where the email address was inaccessable, but the address and everything matched the true business owner. The last time it happened, it was a non for profit where someone registered the domain name with an @aol.com address. Years later they wanted to move to google apps and couldn't access the domain since the guy forgot the password and they had no way to do the password reset since the email address didn't exist anymore. Letter on company letterhead faxed to the registrar did the trick.

A RAID array is the same as having a backup.

Windows patches break stuff, and should only be install as needed.

If you turn Windows Firewall on, you don't need a hardware firewall.

I deployed a few of these, and the model that came before. They are under $500. They can hold 2 24" monitors if they have a narrow bezel. They worked well because the client had very heavy CAD rigs on the desk and just needed the monitors/keyboard/mouse to go up and down.

https://standingdesknation.com/collections/ergotron/products/ergotron-workfit-a-dual-monitor

@DustinB3403 said in Quickbooks UPC integration:

Quickbooks has a solution for this, why wouldn't this work?

The client told me and I forgot already. I'll have to go back and get some more information.

@Dashrender It depends on the Gen. I know Gen 8 (not sure on others) will give you 5 minutes of access before booting you off. Most will give you console access until the server is done posting.

Returning the SAN and picking up a third host seems to be a step in the right direction. Your storage space will be close to what you would have had with the SAN.

The questions I have is what is your backup target and will AppAssure work with 3 local hosts and your target? You mentioned needing cache to hit your IOP target. Will the 3 hosts and direct attached make it? Years ago at the last VMUG conference I went to there were a ton of vendors that had caching cards for servers to help out with direct attached loads. With the money you get back from the SAN, that could be a wash.

@Dashrender I was thinking of the printer plugging straight in to one of the ports on the EdgeRouter. If they have other needs (wifi APs, cameras, etc) then that becomes part of the equation.

@DustinB3403 I haven't used SPX at all, so I can't really compare. I have used Veeam for everything from End Point backup and full system restore to using Veeam Quick Migration to move a running VM from one datastore to another. Back when I was running on prem Exchange servers even restored individual emails. Veeam makes all those tasks pretty easy.

I think the hardest part was figuring out what the Veeam name for what I wanted to do was. (Veeam QuickMigration = VMware Datastore vMotion for example)

@scottalanmiller said in Zabbix - email alerts:

We normally say "CentOS 7". CentOS is the OS family name. 3.10.0 is the Linux kernel version. We can deduce the OS from that, but it's not how it is said.

I read your post the other day and thought I need to be specific on the version. Which switch on the uname command tells us that it's CentOS?

I tried all the variations I could think of and couldn't get anything to spit out CentOS/RedHat/or something that I recognized. That's why I just pasted the output from uname -a.

The bug is if the user you are trying to send has the permission level of Zabbix Admin instead of a Zabbix Super Admin they don't really get added to the Zabbix Admins group or something like that. It doesn't make sense. I read this article:

https://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?p=126105#post126105

and then changed the user account that was supposed to get the emails to a Super Zabbix Admin and the messages started pouring in.

@matteo-nunziati So imagine the price of Dlink with the reliability of the more expensive gear. The only downside is the support. They don't have a call center where you can call in with issues and have someone walk you through your issue. For most of us the money you save makes it worth it.

@hobbit666 He means change your pre-shared-secret in your config.

I have a yealink T46G. When calls come in the come in without the 1 so it's area code + telephone number. My phone wants me to dial a 1 for every outbound call. When I would miss a call or go through my call history, I couldn't just scroll down to the number and hit send because it wouldn't dial out without the 1.

I created a dial plan for prefix (.) replace: 1$1
That worked for outside calls, but since our internal numbers start with 1, when I tried to dial someone internally, it would add another 1 to their extension and fail.

As a work around for that issue, I created a dial plan that looks for my most used area code, which is 315 and the rule looks like: Prefix: 315(.) replace: 1315$1

That works and I can call internal extensions. Of course it only works for that area code and I would have to program every area code I might want to call back in there like that.

Is there a way to only use the replace rule on 10 digit long numbers and leave the 3 digit numbers alone? It seemed like it would be something like:
Prefix xxxxxxxxxx replace 1xxxxxxxxxx
but that didn't work.

You could check for an IIS instance and see if it is listening on all IPs, or just a specific one. Then check DNS and see if there are entries for the second IP.

If it's a small network I would disconnect the extra NIC and listen for the screams. If you're remote when the call comes in, just add the second IP to the first NIC and that should get things going again.