Is the impetus to change the computers legitimately the OS EOL or are we trying to get a HW lifecycle routine going? If the true concern is actually the OS and they're already OEM licensed, just do as someone else suggested and reformat the existing machines with W10 (I'd change the drives to SSD if they're still mechanical) and you should be good for another decent timeframe.

@JasGot said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

@DustinB3403 said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

@notverypunny said in Veeeeeeerrrrrryyyyy long paths and filenames:

Quick fix is to remount the folder to an unused drive letter closer to the target.... so c:\stupid\long\folder\path\file1.txt becomes x:\file1.txt

subst works great for this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst

This, while it works to address the symptom, doesn't fix the plague.

An a plague it is!

You can't fix stupid.... you can only try to maintain your sanity

having another go at getting RANCID setup to backup our networking gear

Quick fix is to remount the folder to an unused drive letter closer to the target.... so c:\stupid\long\folder\path\file1.txt becomes x:\file1.txt

subst works great for this

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/subst

@scottalanmiller said in RMM Ideas for MSP:

@jmoore I have to say, having used NinjaRMM and now testing Itarian, I don't think you'd convince me to pay for the difference. Itarian might not be "as nice", but from a profit standpoint, it's going to do much better.

We had looked at Commodo's suite of products and it all seemed to be FOSS stuff stitched together and rebranded (for example, their ticketing system is just OSTicket with custom branding). If that's the case for the RMM you might be able to roll your own if you can see what's under the covers.

You could do something with GLPI and fusioninventory. There isn't much out of the box, but you can build reporting and dashboards, the patching would require creating the packages and managing the deployment but it would be fully FOSS and should be able to scale as big as you want.

So the laptop is my main driver and runs the 3 displays + it's own.

The lower display to the right is for a workstation that's used for building / maintaining our windows 10 deployment images as well as a GNS3 install that I need to find the time to use to mock-up our WAN / VPN topology.

The fireplace on the arm is a drastically underpowered 20" inspiron all in one touchscreen that had been doing nothing for years so I've taken it, put linux on it and it's just a toy / conversation piece.

EDIT: fireplace has now become an ASCII aquarium

@anthonyh said in GPO Software Deployment Woes:

Just a side note: I can confirm that @Dashrender 's suggestion of creating a CNAME works like a charm. I created a new software deployment GPO and added the source via the CNAME record and deployment was successful.

Glad to see that I was mistaken

Is your filesrv02 the actual name of the machine? I remember seeing a mention of using a DNS record... I may be wrong but IIRC DNS redirection and modern SMB don't always work together very well because Kerberos. Like I said, might be completely out to lunch on this one, still working on my 1st coffee of the day.

@DustinB3403 said in Troubleshooting Help Requested:

@wrx7m said in Troubleshooting Help Requested:

VLANs?

No, and this VM is on the same vlan as other VMs on the same host.

PS I've restored this VM to a completely different hypervisor and the issue persists. So either its the VM or the gateway.

Have you tried a different IP, or even power down this machine and assign the same IP to another host to see if it gets blocked? Is the restored VM using the same MAC address as the original or has the restored version got a reinitialised MAC?

Do you have access to check the logs on the gateway / edge / router to see if it's blocking / intercepting / messing with your host