https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-desktop-client-3-2-with-status-feature-and-virtual-files-available-now/

I am pretty excited about this new feature. Allows you to sync files on demand similar to OneDrive and Dropbox. The files only take up space on your device if you open them or choose to keep them on your device always.

I know there was a recent post about Zentyal and I made the comment that it appears to be a dead project. I just saw this on another forum post. Possibly making a comeback???

http://www.zentyal.org/2016/10/zentyal-5-0-roadmap-published/

So I kind of wanted to expand on the post Offline files nightmare but the discussion started to veer off to other discussions.

I know that some have adopted Nextcloud, Owncloud, OneDrive for Business, Google Drive, etc. as replacements for smb file servers. What I am curious about is how everyone configures these solutions in their environment.

Do you still use folder redirection but point it to the Nextcloud folder? Or do you tell users it's on them not to save data to their desktop and documents?

Do you map network drives using WebDAV for internal users?

Do you create shares from an admin or main share account and then have all users sync the data to their local machine?

I don't know much about Bacula but when I was researching a couple months ago I came across Bareos which is a fork of Bacula. Not sure if that is the new direction for the software.

www.bareos.org

So I believe I was able to resolve the issue. I ended up rolling back my Office updates using the method from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2770432/how-to-revert-to-an-earlier-version-of-office-2013-or-office-2016-clic . I had tried numerous versions but none seemed to work. I ended up trying Build 1707 16.0.8326.2073 and holy crap it worked.

Just another observation before I had rolled back is that Excel was using a high amount of CPU (about 45% to 50%). I have seen other people complain about CPU being high in some older versions but it was typically related to the Creators Update and not Office updates.

Anyways, thanks for all the suggestions!! I will let you guys know if this one blows up on me too.

Veeam Agent for Windows Free works great. I also like the Synology Active Backup if you happen to have a Synology NAS that’s capable.

The GitHub site has some good instructions for IIS and SAN Certs.

https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-simple/wiki/Create-a-SAN-certificate-for-Exchange-2016

I told him to contact Amazon to report the vendor and get a refund.

Thanks for the replies!

Sounds like you can sync shared folders to the desktop now.

https://blogs.office.com/2017/01/24/onedrive-brings-new-file-collaboration-and-management-features-to-the-enterprise/

Today, we are enhancing OneDrive with the ability to sync SharePoint Online team sites—including files used inside Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups and OneDrive folders—shared by others across PC and Mac platforms. Now you can work with all your Office 365 files just as you would files stored on your PC or Mac—even when you are offline

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2016/10/malwarebytes-acquires-adwcleaner/

I wonder if this means adwcleaner cannot be used for business use unless you purchase Malwarebytes endpoint.

@scottalanmiller said in Insurance form and MFA:

They mean signing into Active Directory, not the server (the server too, I'm sure.) Do your users have MFA when signing into their desktops?

No they don't have MFA for signing into the desktops.

They also mentioned MFA for routers. Not sure the edgerouter can do this.

A client sent me a cyber security insurance form and asked me to fill it out for them. One of the sections has to do with MFA of remote access which is something I feel is covered (ScreenConnect with one time passcode).

However, the next section mentions internal MFA and then lists active directory and firewalls. So I guess my question is does this sound like they want MFA when signing into the domain controller or firewall? I guess you could have a smart card or Yukikey for the domain controller. What would be an option for MFA on an edgerouter?

@scottalanmiller said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

@syko24 said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

OnlyOffice is a pretty nice alternative to MS Office. If they had an email client that would definitely be a huge plus for their product.

An email client? When would that be useful? All business email products have their own clients when needed and use web interfaces for most things (including offline handling.) Generally email clients as standalone things aren't considered a good thing (think the disaster that is Outlook.) I think no one offers one because no one should want it.

What are you looking to do with an email client? What's the use case?

I know lots of people still use Outlook because users are addicted to it. But if you are going to leave Outlook, you'd not move them to another fat client, but to the modern interfaces everyone offers.

While I agree that fat clients are not always the best option, most end users prefer Outlook as you said. My point was having something like emclient or similar would make OnlyOffice more of an apples to apples comparison to MS Office.

@travisdh1 said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

@scottalanmiller said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

@syko24 said in ONLYOFFICE has released ONLYOFFICE Docs version 7.1.:

OnlyOffice is a pretty nice alternative to MS Office. If they had an email client that would definitely be a huge plus for their product.

An email client? When would that be useful? All business email products have their own clients when needed and use web interfaces for most things (including offline handling.) Generally email clients as standalone things aren't considered a good thing (think the disaster that is Outlook.) I think no one offers one because no one should want it.

What are you looking to do with an email client? What's the use case?

I know lots of people still use Outlook because users are addicted to it. But if you are going to leave Outlook, you'd not move them to another fat client, but to the modern interfaces everyone offers.

Outlook is so much better when using the PWA version, even with it you should be getting rid of the fat client!

Not for someone who has multiple email addresses. Having to constantly click back and forth to change the user account is not ideal.

OnlyOffice is a pretty nice alternative to MS Office. If they had an email client that would definitely be a huge plus for their product.

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:

@pmoncho said in MeshCentral - Anyone tried this?:

@scottalanmiller

I misread that. Yeah only 140 agents.

Apparently I am far behind.

We use it pretty extensively

@scottalanmiller - Just curious are you still using Tactical or just Mesh these days? I've been playing around with Tactical internally and definitely a great solution. I know you mentioned a while back you were using that and Mesh separate from each other.

@jasgot - What value do you have set for MaximumAttachmentSize? Value is set in KB so make sure you have the appropriate number. If that looks good then possibly try a reboot after modifiying the value.

I do the same thing for QuickBooks Database Manager that runs on a domain controller. Intuit made the decision to use ports that overlap the DNS Server ports and cause QBDBMgr to stop running. My powershell script checks the status of the QuickBooks services and if they are stopped restarts DNS Server and the QB services. Ugly but it works.

@wrcombs - Or drag and drop the PDF file to the local computer and print it locally.

@wrcombs said in Remote Printer reverses report:

@syko24 said in Remote Printer reverses report:

@wrcombs - We have a couple GoToMyPC accounts. When the user prints, are they using the GoToMyPC printer or did you install the actual printer on the remote system and use the GoToMyPC Printer Port?

If you install the actual drivers of the printer and use the GoToMyPC printer port you tend to get better results. Also print jobs print a lot faster than just using the generic GoToMyPC printer.

I dont believe the printer was ever actually installed at the remote site - I think they're just using the printer port -

If you don't have the ability to install the printer directly, maybe as a work around, have them print to Microsoft PDF printer first and then print the pdf using the GoToMyPC printer.