Hi All,

-We had a requirement to audit our server's local account Administrator privileged users .

We are having around 600-700 windows servers and it is very difficult to verify one by one.

I was in search for a tool and found this tool very useful with graphical summary reports "Viewfinity Local Admin Discovery "

The results provided by the tool categorize the discovered Administrators in three groups according to the following rules:

Default Administrators (like Domain Admins, etc.)
Other AD Groups
AD or local users and any local user groups

Though of sharing the same.

http://www.viewfinity.com/Resources/Discover_Desktops.aspx

Report Sample

Hello All,

I have configured UrBackup in Centos 7 as per the post Installing URBackup on CentOS 7 :scottalanmiller.
My requirement is to have a Network backup for development Servers data folder.I have created a NFS share in my Synology and mounted to URBackup server. I have configured the URBackup backup storage as nfs mount path.

I need the help on

1. How to install UrBackup client in centos 7
2. How to configure the backup location in centos UrBackup client.
3. I need a backup schedule and retention of

Daily incremental backup and retention 7 days
Weekly full backup and retention 4 weeks
Monthly full backup and retention 3 Months.

how can i achieve the above with file backup settings.

Interval for incremental file backup : ?
interval for full file backup : ?
Maximal incremental file backup : ?
Maximal full file backups : ?

Also any document for upgrading server and client versions.

Thanks in Advance.

@scottalanmiller , @JaredBusch @thwr
Thanks for the support. I will be testing the Ngnix.

Proposed requirement diagram

Hello All,

The Issue has been fixed as the reason for RemoteRegistry access Denied is Our Domain environment GPO is configured the RemoteRegistry service to start as automatic but the security setting of that service is configured with no user which cause all users to access deny.

Configured the GPO is with appropriate permission to the RemoteRegistry service and now all working prefect

Thanks All

Thanks all.

It was a miss configuration in Remote Access VPN Group Policy.

I have added local DNS and external DNS (google DNS) in the group policy DNS Server , then Inherit the DNS names in Split Tunneling and disable send all DNS lookups through Tunnel .

Now the nslookup work like charm in any connect vpn

Hi All

"amportal a ma installall" command Fixed the Issue.

Hi,

NXL4000 was installed with Elastix 2.4 . I have upgraded the Elastix to 2.5 and the issue get resolved.

Thanks all for the support

Hi All,

Thanks for your valid comments on exchange ,O365 licensing model.. etc.

My current requirement is to list out the possibilities of question/area that i need to check with rackspace before going for a trail. Also need to know what to test before jump into trail.

We are planing to provide normal rackspace email for casual users and exchange for power users to reduce the email cost.

Need to know anyone is using this feature and how benefit it is ? . Does the exchange share calendar work with rackspace email ? Does the resource mailbox is accessible by rackspace email users ?

These types of possibilities of question am looking forward, if any one such please share so that i can include in my list.

Thanks in Advance.

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott

In CloudBerry backup there is an option to do Real-Time backup and this will execute to backup the change in every 60 sec.

This option satisfy my need as it will backup files to aws on real-time and file deleted from local will not get deleted from AWS.

Thanks All for the support.

@Dashrender CloudBerry Backup leverages Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Technology to backup opened files

@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott,

ELK or Graylog?

Hello Team,

Currently in our environment we are using Kiwi Sylsog server for logging events from servers and network devices. As kiwi slog server provide as the web page but limited and it cannot be visualize some thing like ELK etc.

As we have a lot of data with no use, though about of some application which can integrate with kiwi sysog to visualize my events and monitor the events.

Any one work on such things or can some one suggest an idea to use the syslog data for log analytics

Hello All,

The Issue has been fixed as the reason for RemoteRegistry access Denied is Our Domain environment GPO is configured the RemoteRegistry service to start as automatic but the security setting of that service is configured with no user which cause all users to access deny.

Configured the GPO is with appropriate permission to the RemoteRegistry service and now all working prefect

Thanks All

Not sure, but I think if we modification the script inside /etc/init.d/openfire file it may work.

I have tried to replace the openfire file with openfire 4.1 version under /etc/init.d, now the pid error is not there and starting the service but after 3-4 sec its Shutting down openfire

Starting SYSV: Openfire is an XMPP server, which is a server that facilitates XML based communication, such as chat....
su[1614]: (to root) root on none
openfire[1601]: Starting openfire:
systemd[1]: Started SYSV: Openfire is an XMPP server, which is a server that facilitates XML based communication, such as chat....
..........................
openfire[1649]: Shutting down openfire: [FAILED]

Hello All,

I am configuring an SQL 2016 Cluster under Windows 2016 Failover Cluster. During the process of adding node to the existing cluster, I have an issue as the SQL Cluster instance name is not showing.

During the Windows 2016 Failover Cluster configuration, I had an issue as the domain admins can only validate the cluster, the domain users which are the part of local admin group of both nodes are not able to validate the cluster. While validating the Cluster, it fails with the error
" Cluster Validation Failed "OpenService 'RemoteRegistry' failed. Access is denied"
I had created a support ticket in social.technet.microsoft.com forum and configured as per their suggestion but no luck.

Details : https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/11379636-09f1-4c44-a808-d88938da8ef1/cluster-validation-failed-openservice-remoteregistry-failed-access-is-denied?forum=winserverClustering#dfa76dce-637c-483f-978f-30ce3062986a

Finally, decided to validate the Failover cluster and install the SQL 2016 cluster under domain admin account.

New SQL Server failover cluster installation was successful in Node 1. But when login to Node2 for adding the node to the failover cluster , SQL Cluster instance name is not showing.

Please help to find out the root cause and fix this issue to have a SQL 2016 failover Cluster. We are having SQL2014 failover cluster in the same domain without any Issue. The same GPO's are applied to the new 2016 Nodes

@scottalanmiller

[root@Centos ~]# journalctl -xe

systemd[1]: openfire.service failed.
systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: Openfire is an XMPP server, which is a server that facilitates XML based communication, such as chat....
su[2402]: (to root) root on none
openfire[2389]: Starting openfire:
systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/openfire.pid not readable (yet?) after start.
systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Openfire is an XMPP server, which is a server that facilitates XML based communication, such as chat..
systemd[1]: Unit openfire.service entered failed state.
systemd[1]: openfire.service failed.
-- Subject: Unit openfire.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel

Thanks All,

We are having internal chat system as Openfire on 3.9.1 and we have modified some of the features and rebuild the rpm. This is the reason we are not using the latest version.

This customized build is working fine in Centos 6.5 , now we are planing to upgraded the Centos to 7. While testing the Openfire on 3.9.1, we are not able to control the service through systemctl .
Is Openfire on 3.9.1 is compatable with centos 7? Any workaround to make the Openfire on 3.9.1 function in centos 7?

Hello All,

I am having issue when starting the openfire with commad " systemctl start openfire".

I have installed Centos 7 minimal (CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) ) and installed openfire-3.9.1-1.x86_64.rpm.

Configured JAVA_HOME and alsl installed the libstdc++.i686.

But when I start the openfire with commad " systemctl start openfire", I am getting the error
" systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/openfire.pid not readable (yet?) after start."

Openfire is not able to control with systemctl and also with service start Openfire.

Output of journalctl -u openfire -f -a -n 0

May 30 20:37:14 Centos. systemd[1]: Starting SYSV: Openfire is an XMPP server, which is a server that facilitates XML based communication, such a s chat....
May 30 20:37:14 Centos. su[1574]: (to root) root on none
May 30 20:37:14 Centos. openfire[1562]: Starting openfire:
May 30 20:37:15 Centos. systemd[1]: PID file /var/run/openfire.pi d not readable (yet?) after start.
May 30 20:37:15 Centos. systemd[1]: Failed to start SYSV: Openfir e is an XMPP server, which is a server that facilitates XML based communication, such as chat..
May 30 20:37:15 Centos. systemd[1]: Unit openfire.service entered failed state.
May 30 20:37:15 Centos. systemd[1]: openfire.service failed.

[root@Centos ~]# systemctl start openfire
Job for openfire.service failed because a configured resource limit was exceeded. See "systemctl status openfire.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.

Please advice and help to start openfire with systemctl . openfire-3.9.1 is working fine with Centos 6.5 version

Hello All,

Currently I am working on a project for federating onprimse AD with Azure AD using ADFS.3.0

I have setup ADFS and Configured federation with Azure. For MFA I am using Azure MFA Server and Its working fine.MFA is with SMS and OATH Method.

Now I would like to test the MFA with Smartcard.

I would request to share the document for configuring Smart card MFA with ADFS 3.0

Thanks in Advance.

Include Storage fail over, Storage IOPS report