Thanks all for your suggestions and recommendations..
I ended up buying the Synology Diskstation DS2015 with 8 x 8TB hard drives.
Now waiting for the shipment..:)

I have been using Backupify for more than 6 years to backup and archive my Google Apps domain but the guys still do not have any plan to implement 2 step verification! Absolutely unbelievable!!

I am looking for someone (preferably based in Australia) to redesign our corporate website, could I have some reference please?

We have been using http://www.trackvia.com/ for more than 5 years and now they are pushing their customers to their newer platform with a starting price of US$ 1,000 per month (this is huge when compared to their original platform which was starting at as little as $100 per month and we are paying only ~ $400 per month at the moment).

Are there anyone using similar services to give me some recommendations?

@StrongBad Thank you!, I fixed the quote and my alias is now working!!

Now let me explain.

As you suggested, it was absolutely related to the messy quotes I was using. I changed the outer one to double quotes as below and the alias worked immediately.

alias openvpn-disconnect="kill -9 $( ps -e | grep openvpn | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' )"

When I said it was working in a normal command line, I was just entering the command without the outer quotes which means there was only one set of quote ( around { print $1} ) and hence it worked without any issues.

@thwr Thank you again for "killer" command!

I have around 38 TB, less frequently used (say, once in a week) data, spread across a few machines.
Now I got the green signal to buy a NAS box to consolidate this data and would like to know what do you think of getting a QNAP or Synology or any other better box.

In terms of access requirement, i should be happy if it comes with

1-1Gbps LAN
2-Windows/Linux/OS X client support
3-RAID5/10 (please let us not discuss this further in this thread)
4-Rack (or tower)
5-Redundant power supply

This will be a standalone NAS, no plans for iSCSI.

I am using Citrix ShareFile service at the moment and I would like to know what others are using out there.
(I have been using ShareFile for 4-5 years but thinking of switching to something better due to its limitations when it comes to auditing and reporting)

Last year at this time we were tossing up a few IP phone options for our Oz office. Then we chose LG IPEC system over Mitel system, latter being an expensive solution for our small office with only 15-20 people. Throughout the sales talks, LG IPEC sales person continuously talked about the many “features” of the system.

However, 1 year after the implementation, I feel very sad every time I look at my desk phone! It is nothing better than my old, digital PBX system!!

There is no real control from their web console as most the “programming” are done directly from the phone by their technicians by pressing a bunch of codes. Even selecting a name from the address book is unusually difficult - I do not want to go into the details.

Now the guys have sent me a quote for renewing the maintenance contract with them for next year which I know I have to sign up if I want to keep this system with me in a responsive state.

I have heard a lot about virtual PBX, but;

1. would it work with physical ISDN/analog phone lines?
2. Could we install and manage those by ourselves?
3. Would it be possible for us to use our existing IP based desk phones with these systems?
4. Are there anyone else out there who has gone through similar situation?

https://mangolassi.it/topic/11807/things-to-know-before-you-start-installing-freepbx
Thanks JB! I think that is what I should begin with!!

I was just reading the https://mangolassi.it/topic/7891/alternative-to-azure-ad-jumpcloud thread and just wondering if anyone here using JumpCloud in a production environment. If yes, can you please share your experience?

I am in the process of bringing all of our Linux/Mac boxes under the LDAP to tighten the security but JumpCloud looks more appropriate to manage a heterogeneous network spread across all over the places.

Thank you all, we are evaluating Bitwarden and Keeper Security at the moment.

Could someone give me some ideas for setting up a cloud based, enterprise password management system ?

At the moment, we all are using the locally installed Keepass software though it nowadays getting difficult to keep it up to date (This requirement is purely for non-IT staff from around 8-10 offices; I am still happy with my Keepass database for storing all IT related passwords and I really don't need to share it in real-time either!).

Ideally, the password management system should be accessible over a browser session (and/or using an iPhone/Andorid App) and we should be able to implement policies related to password length, rotation etc. I would also consider having a role based administration feature so some users are allowed to make changes relevant to their department.

I have around 30 users using Outlook with G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook. Outlook automatic archiving feature is turned off by default when you create the sync user profile. On top of that, I tell all of my users to not to run manual archive from Outlook as G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook doesn't support dragging and dropping the archived emails back to Outlook if they change their mind.

If they need the archived mail back again then they will have to import it from Gmail web interface and it is not a straight forward process as Gmail doesn't support PST format. Have a look at the https://tools.google.com/dlpage/outlookmigration page for more details.

Having said that, this is not going to solve the current mess in that user's mailbox. Depending on the type of the issue, you may want to look for a duplicator finder or something similar to clean it first.

It took me a while to revisit this issue though i have managed to address this issue using multiuser SMB mount.

In essence, you would add the mount point to the fstab using the multiuser and ntlmssp options and then you would run
the cifscreds command to authenticate a specific user against the SMB server at the time of login so that that user would be able to see only those sub-folders/files which he/she has access to under the smb mount.

Thanks everyone, let me try your suggestions and come back to this thread again soon

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 server and a Synology NAS, both joined to my Windows 2008 R2 domain.

Ubuntu machine is used by multiple, say, 10 domain users via SSH.

Synology NAS has got a file share with separate level of SMB access permissions for each of these domain users.

I have a requirement to automatically mount this file share on the Ubuntu machine whenever my domain users login to it using SSH.

(I would say, this requirement is something like the logon script in Windows which would allow a user to map a network drive to their computer using their login credentials during the logon process so that the user would able to see on those files and folders in the network drive which he/she has access to)

How do I get this working?

@scottalanmiller sure, but I will be needing the 3rd party patching option as well

@scottalanmiller
It is mainly for Windows. Linux machines are mainly R&D workstations supplied in addition to the regular workstations which needs to be updated only when required. So, more or less, I am looking for a controlled patch management solution.

@scottalanmiller

Goal - To monitor the patch (both OS and 3rd party software) status of my user workstations from a central console and update them or install the latest versions if necessary.
In an ideal world "systems will all update themselves" but it may not be the case in the real world or at-least in my situation.

Let me tell you where I am now –

• I am evaluation Automox at the moment.

• Sales guys at cloudmanagementsuite seems to be not interested to give me an evaluation, probably because my requirement is for less than 50 endpoints.

• I would love to use the ManageEngine Desktop Central if they had a cloud based solution!

Now, if someone asks me why cloud?

I have a lot of home based remote users they don’t really talk to our corporate network so frequently. Also, I have a few remote offices with 1-2 users where setting up a dedicated server infrastructure in not feasible.