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@MrWright4hire said in Captive Portal/Splash Screen/Better Alternative:

@Pete-S said in Captive Portal/Splash Screen/Better Alternative:

He or his guests doesn't need to type in anything.
Most phones for example support qr codes for ssid & pwd.

There are many sites that can generate the right qr code for him to print out.

For example https://wifiqrcode.com

Hey Pete. I wish I knew you well enough to put you on my Christmas list. That idea was the BOMB! My bad for those who are not hip to that term. It was a great idea.

I also talked him into getting a Unifi Dream Router (UDR). With the UDR you don't need to buy extra gear. It's a 4 in one. It's a router, switch, AP and controller. There's another one called Unifi Dream Machine (UDM). It's a 3 in 1. It's a switch, AP and Controller. Both can create a captive portal / splash screen.

Here's a side by side comparison:
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If anyone else has any cool ideas like Pete, please share. I'm open to learning and sharing information.

If anyone is interested, below are setup video of both products.

Unifi:
UDR - Router
UDM - Machine

In the mean time, MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I got excited and started to re-consider my initial heart attack the other day when I searched up the UDR.. That sheet is old and incorrect. the UDR on Amazon is the same price as the UDM - $400+

I'm already looking to re-engineer my entire network from a ERL and UniFi controller running on Ubuntu ...

@WLS-ITGuy dear lord.

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

What are some

You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.

@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.

I use nmap, so much faster and easier.

Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.

I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.

You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.

While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.

I bet I can install it faster than you can use Advanced IP Scanner, lol.

choco install nmap -y

It's SO fast.

Oh, I'm adding choco everywhere I can, but they haven't even deployed that!

What? That's the easiest way to deploy AIPS! What the heck are people DOING over there?

Being your typical American MSP and going after billing hours instead of good business.

@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Bypass BIOS Options:

@Dashrender said in Lenovo Bypass BIOS Options:

in the 2010's many laptops came with a boot to BIOS/setup button, a Tiny button typically on side of the laptop meant to help you bypass this rapid boot feature and ensure you get into the BIOS

Never seen that, ever.

My old Lenovo had it.

@MrWright4hire said in A LIFE AND FATHER'S ISSUES, NOT TECH:

@Obsolesce said in A LIFE AND FATHER'S ISSUES, NOT TECH:

The trickery was with willful intent, that much is easily clear from the wording and url shortening on a forum you can easily create a text link. Everyone knows its only done if there is something to hide.

Nothing wrong with asking for help and linking to funding help site, the issue is with the intentional deciet and lies, then defending it, and it also not really being the place for it IMO. Perhaps you would have much better luck on Facebook getting money and/or prayers.

Many of us are parents too, and feel for you, but wouldn't do what you did on here if in the same situation.

Obsolesce, you really should represent your name to the fullest. For the record, I asked if I could post on here before I posted. The shortening of the url isn't of my doing. It's what Go Fund provide you when they encourage you to share. I'm very transparent about my intentions, hence why I asked if I could post on here as well as share the content of what I was about to post before I posted it.

Nevertheless, the process that I took to post my story isn't as important as my story. However it's funny how you idiots, Yes I said idiots! Specifically the nay sayers and trouble makers. How you made the process more important than the my story. And how you added your own speculations as to me being trickery and trying to fool you guys is beyond absurd. That would be like taking a beat up Volts wagon on a race track trying to get some investors to sponsor me. No where did I state that I wanted anyone in my post to give money. All I asked was to bring some awareness.

You have now polluted my intentions to those who could possibly benefit from my story turn away from my story.

Thanks for nothing and increasing the stress that I'm already dealing with.

How GFM encourage to share

Perhaps next time, you can make your intentions clear in your intro so there is no confusion or potential misleading.

Something like you want to raise awareness of X issue and ask for monetary help to get through it personally and to aid in spreading awareness, then the link to read more and to donate if interested.

You say you feel you were transparent with your intentions, and had that been true, you would not have received all these reactions showing otherwise. How you worded it clearly had bad results and everyone clearly felt mislead. That is not our fault, and being called idiots and being told to die because of your mistakes is absolutely not warranted.

@MrWright4hire said in What would be a typical Network Admin Best Practice Cheatsheet...Anyone?:

@MrWright4hire
Thank you all for your feedback on Zabbix monitoring software. However, I'm looking for an actually daily checklist that one may have developed or came across to do daily checks for Network Admins.

Do anyone know or have such a checklist?

I do not. I find most positions like this (DBA, Net Admin, Systems, etc.) have very few, if any, universal tasks.

@mrwright4hire said in Mail stuck in Office 365, Enterprise Exchange queue!:

@dbeato said in Mail stuck in Office 365, Enterprise Exchange queue!:

@mrwright4hire said in Mail stuck in Office 365, Enterprise Exchange queue!:

A few users are having issues sending out emails. Not everytime, but intermittent. Has anyone experienced this type of issue before? I can use all the help I can get. I would like to know how to release the emails and avoid emails getting stuck again.

In advanced, thank you for your efforts.

Have any of your users been not able to send at all? I am not seeing that right now.

Great question dbeato! Here's the thing, I myself tried to email the same address while monitoring it from Barracuda. Nothing showed up as going out. It's strange cause we received email from the address.

So it is on the received end of Barracuda?

@wirestyle22 said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

@scottalanmiller said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

@irj said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

@scottalanmiller said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

@wirestyle22 said in Certifications! Are they still worth pursuing?:

The knowledge is beneficial but the piece of paper is irrelevant. I use certification books as education paths and then have @scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch yell at me until i understand. It's worked well for me. As a side note, Cisco can over-complicate a lot of simple concepts so watch out for that.

I think Cisco is a bad path for general education. Their material is super Cisco specific and engineered way more to promote the use of their products than they should be. You could say something similar about Windows certs, but operating systems have to be like that in a way that networking does not and Microsoft is certainly better about keeping knowledge and concepts more general. Cisco certs are for Cisco jobs.

Great business model for Cisco, though. Without CCNA, Cisco would lose a huge market share IMO.

Yes, they all learned that model from Novell. If only Novell had learned it.

It amazes me how much I hear Novell referenced. People are still upset it failed.

Not many, it was pretty crappy. Stable, but archaic, even at its peak. But they did a lot to give us much of Suse, so that's good.

Create a new folder in the root of the data partition being used, if any, and call it something like Hyper-V-2018.

Copy the VHDX file(s) from their current location to that (assuming there is enough space to do so).

Run the following in an elevated PowerShell where X is the destination partition:

Set-VMHost -VirtualHardDiskPath "X:\Hyper-V-2018\Virtual Hard Disks" –VirtualMachinePath "X:\Hyper-V-2018"
Get-VMHost | fl VirtualHardDiskPath,VirtualMachinePath

Create a new VM and configure its settings using the existing OS VHDX. After that is complete, open the VM's properties and add the second VHDX if it exists.

Try and start the VM. If it starts, it will require some tweaking at the network level as the vNIC's GUID and MAC will be different.

@mrwright4hire said in PINGing issue...please help!:

@bnrstnr said in PINGing issue...please help!:

https://kb.iu.edu/d/aopy

This is claiming that the default firewall setup blocks ping and shows how to enable it. I've personally never seen this and have always been able to ping.

EDIT: With the firewall off, though, this doesn't seem to apply.

This post got me to thinking. I dug a bit deeper into the firewall. I found something that did the trick. I was checking the Firewall of the Windows and not that of the AV. Once I did some testing and search further into the AV, I found a way to allow pinging to take place.
With that said, I would like to thank all of you for coming to my rescue. Thank so much for all of your insight.

General rule of thumb... don't use AV firewall. The OS has an excellent, straightforward, easy to manage, well known, enterprise class firewall. Some random, unknown third party firewall is a bad idea.

Strong best practice: Never run two firewalls on your devices.

@Reid-Cooper said in Oracle Database and schemas...please help!:

In the past I used to know a handful of active DBAs. Today I'm not sure that I know any. I have the impression that the field has been shrinking. Do many databases really require that much care and feeding any longer? We can just throw CPU, RAM and IOPS at them or pass a query problem on to the developers. DBAs backing up, tuning and monitoring databases seems like a dieing art.

I just saw a local company advertising for a Senior Sys Admin where they wanted Oracle DBA experience for. I kind of want to try to grab an interview, could be interesting conversations. Plus I know a guy that works there, who I'd enjoy working with. The more I talk about it the more I'm going to contact him tonight.

@MrWright4hire said in SQL Developer:

@travisdh1 I'll check right now.
Indeed it does.

Any update?

@scottalanmiller said in Who Has Knowledge of Oracle NetSuite:

@MrWright4hire said in WHO HAS KNOWLEDGE OF NETSUITE, BY ORACLE:

Aw ok! There is a position for a System Admin, but they would like for you to have knowledge of this Netsuite.

That's weird since NetSuite would have no relationship to a System Admin role. Run away, it's a fake job title. System Admin skills sets do not overlap with SaaS Application Admin. No crossover in skills. That means you are looking at a really screwed up company with processes that make it impossible to really make yourself valuable.

And that's why I dub you as my Tech BIG BROTHA! Thank you for that advice as well as great point.

@mrwright4hire he's alive!

@RamblingBiped said in DevOps! What are the requirements for it and what background, in computers, you need to have?:

Things that will help you get into a DevOps role:

--> Know your way around Linux/Unix; work toward an RHCSA/RHCSE knowledge level.
--> Know how to script and automate tasks (BASH, Perl, Python, Ruby)
--> Grow a beard, drink copious amounts of expensive coffee, wear flannel, and drink/appreciate craft beer.
--> Learn the basics of Chef, Ansible, Salt, and/or Puppet
--> Understand containers and when/where/how to use them
--> Understand the basics of distributed software design and deployment
--> Design and program some software
--> Learn version control systems (git, subversion, mercurial, etc...)
--> Learn about continuous deployment and integration
--> Adopt a unicorn as your spirit animal
--> Read this: https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Cloud-System-Administration-Distributed/dp/032194318X

Unicorns adopt you!

@BRRABill Swimmingly until I restarted over Teamviewer... 😛

That can work too.

For this particular client, it is probably too late. No wonder they were happy with the price, they are getting you as an outsourcing firm to accept all of the risk and overhead of the work for less than they probably spend to have an employee to do the same work per hour. Companies pay a big premium to outsourcing firms because the firm takes on huge risk and is only paid while working whereas an employee has to be paid when there is work or not. But in this case, you are so cheap that they can't possibly turn you down.

Assume that this client is a lost cause, they will never be okay paying real rates, the rates needed to keep eating while doing this kind of work, after getting you for this price. Nearly everyone does this with the first client or two. Sadly, it's a burned bridge, but it is good learning. Most of any IT consulting is the business side. There are plenty of good IT people out there to do the technical work. It's the business setup, marketing, sales, billing, accounting, etc. that is hard to get and what makes all of the difference.

Without reading everyone's posts, my guess is it sees the local Exchange server and tries to pull from that. You need to have the client migrate EVERYTHING to Office365 and get off that local server. I don't even want to try and figure out how you have all the MX records, etc setup.