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https://www.nartac.com/Products/IISCrypto

Use IIS Crypto. Set it to the level you are looking for. Has templates for the settings. Just apply and reboot.

Guess I should post more, lest all you think I am face down in a ditch covered in rum and stripper glitter.

@Nic said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Bill-Kindle said:

@Nic said:

Good - I saw a good comment on reddit about it: Would there be this much controversy if he'd contributed to the KKK or something similar?

Who know's. I'm just leery of selective outrage.

What outrage isn't selective?

I'm outraged at everything!

Considering that Office 365 uses the Exchange calendar engine if I'm not mistaken, yeah, it's gonna work just fine. And if you are not using Exchange, you can always use Sharepoint. Either way, bound to be a much better solution than IIS7 hack and crap.

@ajstringham said:

@PSX_Defector said:

Hey, you met J.D. I seem to have too much insight into the education world.

Ok, so how exactly am I supposed to get an audience? You don't typically just walk into the Dean's office...

Why not? I walked into the president's office at CVC and didn't even know who it was.

Or would you like to hear the story about how I stood up in a new hire meeting with the DCCCD board and one of the founders Bill J. Priest and said "Hi, I'm PSX, and I'm an alcoholic. Woops, wrong room!"

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

So Action Pack was the Technet killer?

No, they have nothing to do with each other in any way. There is really no overlap in use cases. This is the second time I've heard someone say something like this today. Where is that idea originating?

Both Technet and MAPS have been around since the 1990s. Technet was eliminated because its content was just made basically free.

I think it was more of the fact that folks were selling the keys. Back a while ago, you could get 5 legit Windows licenses per version, so with 7 you would have 25 licenses to sell. They dropped the request rate down to two keys per account, but soon after they went ahead and killed Technet.

I always get a chuckle when I look at my soon to be expired Technet account and see this.

@Katie said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I'm on cup three of my coffee here.

Only cup 1 - I think I may need a drink tonight after hours.

After hours? What is this after hours you speak of?

I'm drinking one right now.

@thanksaj said:

It's also possible that because SO many of the jobs in the Dallas area are lowering paying jobs, and this is about the average salary and not the number of jobs, that Dallas didn't make the list. The vast majority of IT jobs in Dallas are call-center jobs that don't pay well.

Just for you.

HP (EDS) and Dell (PerotSystems) have mostly six figure jobs. Contact centers are normal here, because everyone needs to start somewhere. But there are plenty of high paying IT jobs out there, you just don't have access to them yet. Things like with the finance industry at Comerica, accounting firms like KPMG, big oil in ExxonMobil, and telecommunications with AT&T. And that's JUST the Dallas side of the DFW Metroplex. There are 18 Fortune 500 companies based in DFW, not to mention all the others out there with large operations here or smaller companies based here.

You skew a different way, come back with 10 years experience, you will see a very different landscape.

@thanksaj said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksaj said:

So Action Pack was the Technet killer?

No, they have nothing to do with each other in any way. There is really no overlap in use cases. This is the second time I've heard someone say something like this today. Where is that idea originating?

Both Technet and MAPS have been around since the 1990s. Technet was eliminated because its content was just made basically free.

I think it was more of the fact that folks were selling the keys. Back a while ago, you could get 5 legit Windows licenses per version, so with 7 you would have 25 licenses to sell. They dropped the request rate down to two keys per account, but soon after they went ahead and killed Technet.

I always get a chuckle when I look at my soon to be expired Technet account and see this.

Thanks for the product keys!

Touche.

Meh, it's for Windows 7, they are already in use and have been for a long time. And they are going away in 30 days. Do your worst!

@Bill-Kindle said:

I was told today to fix it for good or basically they were going to get really upset next time it happens.

Let them. If they have their own admin rights, that's upon them to fix the problem. We have people who do this kind of [moderated] all the time in their environments and blame us for their shortcomings. Stick to your support bounds, they are outside of it therefore they are on their own.

Yes, you can modify stuff via GPO, but it's not as simple or as likely as them going in there and modifying the file themselves. And considering it was # out and not deleted wholesale, that says to me someone went in there and did it manually.

You can all blame Danielle for telling me about this place.

Let the games [moderated]. begin!

@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:

Perhaps, I should be thinking of media and graphics businesses more than roller shutter and gardening tool businesses.

You should be thinking gardening tool business.

The main reason to use SSDs is for database IOPS. SMBs seem to have some kind of aversion to outsourcing stuff to other providers so they hobble along on 7200RPM SATA drives because "Oh I don't need that". So when the WORX Aerocart takes off and people are buying them off your site left and right, you can't keep up because the database is getting choked by requests.

If you hosted your shit with us, you would be getting nothing but SSDs. But since SMBs love to keep shit inhouse, this is a great option and dirt cheap for what it is. Off the shelf, non-custom SSDs makes for a fast deployment and future proofing. So when those Samsung 950Pro's come down in price and in SAS interfaces, you got yourself a monster database system with just the minimum of swapping the disks around.

@coliver said:

I think we need someone with experience to weigh in on how this works. From my knowledge they use a DHCP-esque system and do MAC reservations to set addresses. @PSX_Defector may have some inside knowledge though. Certainly TWC hasn't, at least to my knowledge, logged into the modem to set it up. They get the MAC address then plug it into the network.

There are multiple systems at play, but you are for the most part correct.

The start of everything is CMTS. Most people are using Cisco CMTS boxes nowadays, although I really only deal with TWC and Comcast for the most part. People like CableONE or Mediacomm might do things differently. But from my experience, most of the systems are fairly similar from different vendors.

The CMTS has a private VLAN'd network, 10.x or something like that, which sends traffic across for authentication and provisioning. This encompasses much of the newer environments within cable systems. It also handles things like CableCARD and set top boxes.

There are two things CMTS looks at to determine what it needs to do. The MAC and the serial. MAC address is obvious, need it to fetch an IP. The serial then determines if the device is allowed onto the network. From there, it will establish the allowed services; internet, HBO, or like at my house all the porn channels. This sends the token over to the device to allow it to descramble whatever it is accessing. Internet access is given the go-ahead to talk to the public VLAN, read if there is a lease on the MAC already, then issue an IP out.

This is usually the only thing that the ISP does. Very few actually configure the device beyond that. Many don't even have access to that side of the device. Some vendors do, like Pace or even Arris. But only very limited things.

@Carnival-Boy said:

@JaredBusch said:

An ATA is an FXS device. You need FXO to do POTS to FreePBX

I have absolutely no idea what that means, but I just want to say it's a fantastic IT acronym sentence!

FXS means station, think actual phone to pick up. FXO means office, as in Central Office, which connects to an incoming POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) line.

You need something to take an incoming line and turn it into a SIP trunk for FreePBX to run against.

http://www.multitech.com/brands/multivoip#gsc.tab=0

That's assuming that's a straight up single POTS line. If they already have a system in place, e.g. key system or ISDN PRI, then processes change. A key system is an old school method of creating a PBX without all the fun of PBX systems. Soft PBXes emulate key systems well, but have a bit of a challenge with routing and such. Using a PRI means they have a full blown PBX, and wouldn't quickly translate over to using any soft PBX out there.

What do they got, and what do they need. Churches are notoriously bad at explaining that.

@ajstringham I'm watching my language, see them right there.

@scottalanmiller said:

There are escort services you could try

Yah, all my bitches be walkin' the streets. They take good care of ya.

Damn it, tunein.tokyo is taken.

Now what will I name my nipple fetish website?

@scottalanmiller said:

@FiyaFly said:

@scottalanmiller In my defense, I think a lot of the reason I'm getting such a desktop is because There's plans of management to install a chain and shackle at the bottom of my desk when I least expect it and just hope that I'm alright with that because of my shiny new toy.

Maybe the new desktop will have one of the Bluetooth dongles that sets off an alarm if you step too far away.

Mark of the beast!!! RFID tags that send you to hell!!!

@thanksaj said:

He was talking about how this one printer was throwing "lots of dirty traffic", although I'm not entirely sure even he knew what he meant by that.

When you have a device sending lots of chatty packets out for no reason, e.g. pinging broadcast when not necessary or pulling DHCP info at inappropriate times. For example, the original iPhone had lots of problems with 802.11b traffic, causing access points to go nuts due to their incessant chatter. I read of a few colleges just out right banning Apple MACs from accessing the point due to their excessive nature.

But the solution for a dirty device on a LAN isn't to VLAN it out but to get rid of the device.

Sounds like you work with some real "winners".

@david.wiese said:

Execs do not accept i don't know very well.

The cornerstone of all knowledge starts with "I do not know".