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From the exchange admin.

Trying to do an install of SideNotesIM on a machine but keep getting an error message during the install that says: File SideNotes.exe is not marked for installation.

From what I have searched online, the error is not spefcifically a SideNotes error and its usually is caused by an old install that left either files or registry keys behind. CCCleaner was used to remove old registry entries and no other folder related to the app can be found.

Tried contacting the manufacturer directly but they couldn't help. Have any of you experienced this type of error before?

Worth the try checking it @dbeato thanks, will try it once I can remote back into the machine today

Ok, so we have a simple robocopy script that copies over a db file from a remote server to the file server. When the script is run manually, directly from powershell it works without trouble but when the script is run from task scheduler it doesn't complete. It just shows as running and it eventually timesout according to the max time set to run in task scheduler. It actually doesn't create the robocopy log file so no idea what is really happening.

OS is Windows Server 2012R2
Script:
robocopy $originDirectory $destinationDirectory /mir /V /log+:C:\folder\script.log

Security options for the script are set:

Trigger is:
Program: C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
Arguments: -Execution Policy Unrestricted -File "C:\folder\script.ps1"
Start in : C:\folder\

Share permissions are properly set since the script being manually run works properly unless I am missing something.

Credentials for the remote share are stored properly in credential manager.

Any idea what I am missing in order for the script to properly be run from task scheduler

No AD, its work group computers. There is a manual Local Policy set that removes admin users from being able to change the time as all users have admin accounts for Avimark.

@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:

@scottalanmiller said in Server Monitoring:

@philmcdonnell said in Server Monitoring:

@dafyre Thank you for your insight! I am leaning towards Zabbix, just didn't want to launch a separate machine just for that. But I am sure I will find other uses for the machine

No need for a separate machine, just a separate VM. And you'd want a separate VM no matter what monitoring tool you go with.

I have a very small lan at a non-profit I am doing IT volunteer work for. They have very little if any budget so looking for the best free stuff if possible. When you say run everything in a VM, what are you using as a host? Is the host Windows or Linux and what would be the controller? I have used VirtualBox on Windows before, never done it on Linux. Not much experience with Linux except for web servers that run CentOS and cPanel or DirectAdmin control panels.

Thanks for all your help everyone!

You can maybe try https://www.lansweeper.com/ as well, for under 100 devices its free. I have personally not used it but have seen it appear in lots of searches.

You can actually install it using the WSL and/or Cygwin, I posted some screenshots I think on 2017, it didn't all work back then so it might be worth it to revisit it and test it out

WSL

CYGWIN

Edit: heres the post back then https://mangolassi.it/post/359372

@JaredBusch said in ZeroTier vs VPN:

@Romo said in ZeroTier vs VPN:

Remote users wanting to RDP into

• Main Server (this will really be the main place to connect)

This is a windows server correct?
Then you need RDS licensing for this no matter what, even to remote into it from in the office. The only reason to use ZeroTier is simply to not expose RDS to the public internet.

Licensing is already set as that is what they have been using internally as well for the users that need to RDP into the server.

From what he told me today, externally he really only wants access for himself to connect to the server as the admin, apparently, he is his own IT.

• Accounting user's pc
• Owner's pc

ZeroTier on these devices is a very typical use case.

He just mentioned a couple of more users but all of them will be only RDP into their own machine as well. Guess zerotier will serve him well without the need to acquire a new router for now.

Does someone have any idea on why this pbdirectory extension is apparently keeping a channel open? Here is the channel detail

Channel: PJSIP/Twilio-000003c5/AGI                             Up            00:57:30
Exten: pbdirectory                 CLCID: "" <>

@JasGot Are you using the autogenerated password? Have you tried setting a different one and using that?

Also worth checking is the device for the extension set as SIP and not PJSIP?

@rcuadra Is there a time frame of when the endpoint manager will be working with PJSIP extensions?

Wouldn't you just either keep an image with only the stuff you require and deploy that or just use config management to get the default minimal install to you what you require as well?

So the issue is with two Windows 10 machines that are apparently not renewing their DHCP leases and are just letting them expire. They end up being completely offline when users find them the next day and the users have been rebooting them to get the network working again. Network drivers have been updated on both machines and they just reported the issue keeps happening. Both machines are connecting to the network, via the integrated switch of a Yealink t42s, not sure if this could be part of what is causing the issue but I thought it was worth mentioning. Phones are not having any issue at all and they are also set for DHCP.

This is what has been done so far:
-Power management set for max performance and machines done go to sleep.

• Network drivers updated
• Chipset drivers updated
• Video drivers updated.

II will dig into the logs later today, so truly check if they are really just letting the leases expire since I originally thought it would be driver related. Any other idea what could be happening?

@Pete-S start and type winver

@travisdh1 Thank you, the change there solved the issue.

I have been using the Smart queue for the office, to my knowledge and testing QoS is working properly as VoIP has been working without issues during heavy download periods. I have been even having a call during these times and the call was crystal clear. A couple of users are reporting very slow web browsing around the time of the downloads and considering they use mainly web apps this is affecting them.

Is there something I could do to help this? Can regular http file downloads even be tagged/categorized as something different than regular web browsing?

Router is an EdgeRouter lite running v 2.0.6
Internet from AT&T 50 / 50
Files downloaded are 4GB+ files from azure

Maybe try a different QoS method?

@scottalanmiller @JaredBusch

Just setup a traffic-policy shaper to test:

20% bandwidth for voip guaranteed with a ceiling of 100% bandwidth
30% bandwidth for USERS PC guaranteed with a ceiling of 100% bandwidth
50% bandwidth for ALL others guaranteed with a ceiling of 100% bandwidth

Does this sound reasonable?

Getting this timeout errors on several CentOS servers hosted on Vultr. It basically goes through the mirror list until there are no more mirrors to try and the update fails.

kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1062. FAILED                                           
http://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/centos/7.7.1908/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/centos/7.7.1908/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-tools-libs-3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86_64.rpm: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
kernel-tools-3.10.0-1062.7.1.e FAILED                                          
http://mirror.team-cymru.com/CentOS/7.7.1908/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-tools-3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.team-cymru.com/CentOS/7.7.1908/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-tools-3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86_64.rpm: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.
kernel-3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86 FAILED                                           
http://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/centos/7.7.1908/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout on http://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/centos/7.7.1908/updates/x86_64/Packages/kernel-3.10.0-1062.7.1.el7.x86_64.rpm: (28, 'Operation too slow. Less than 1000 bytes/sec transferred the last 30 seconds')
Trying other mirror.

Any idea why this could be happening?

As @Dashrender mentions, we do need to dmz the usg or forward the required ports.

We would also need to use the external site ip as authentication ID for the VPN, so something like this:

set vpn ipsec site-to-site peer peer's-public-ip authentication id local-public-ip

Also add the changes to a config.gateway.json file in the controller to changes directly made on the USG don't get deleted on next provision.