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 Point of Sale System Recommendations, POS:

As many of you know, I have a new hotel and restaurant. Right now we have an existing POS system and we do not like it. We are nearing the point where we have the option to replace it. So we are looking for recommendations. We are not tied to only considering free or open source options, but obviously those have some advantages - especially considering that we have the IT skills in house to run something ourselves. But we are open to ideas of whatever makes the most sense.

I don’t have any experience with the product, but Zoho has a restaurant and hotel management option. I know you are a fan of some of their other products. Maybe this would be a good fit?

Hotel - https://www.zoho.com/creator/apps/hotel-management-software.html

Restaurant - https://www.zoho.com/creator/apps/restaurant-management.html

@syko24 said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

@syko24 said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

All my clients are not able to register their connections to VOIP.MS. Anyone else having this issue?

Actually it seems Chicago7 is currently down.

So it seems that the Chicago locations were all brought down and eventually failed over to the Toronto locations.

@syko24 said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

All my clients are not able to register their connections to VOIP.MS. Anyone else having this issue?

Actually it seems Chicago7 is currently down.

All my clients are not able to register their connections to VOIP.MS. Anyone else having this issue?

@dustinb3403 said in Scanning Domain for Shared Printers:

@syko24 said in Scanning Domain for Shared Printers:

@dustinb3403 said in Scanning Domain for Shared Printers:

Has anyone had to do something like this? With the recent PrintNightmare vulnerability, we're obviously patching our systems, but we're also implementing some changes via GPO to force trusted print servers to be used, only.

What I am trying to sort out is a way to scan every system in a domain and see if it has a printer that is shared, specifically systems without the Printer sharing role installed (workstations, random servers etc).

This is a very rough hit for what I have, so I'm not sure if it actually would work. When I run it I'm getting a quota violation.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$comp = Get-ADComputer -Filter 'ObjectClass -eq "Computer"' | select -ExpandProperty DNSHostName
Get-Printer -ComputerName -Filter $comp  | where Shared -eq $True

While this may not cover everything you are looking for, Advanced IP Scanner will show all shared folders and printers on all systems on the network.

https://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com

That shows you the device type your scanning, not the host of the printer, ie some windows system.

I thought of it beforehand.

After you scan your network, any device with a share will have a plus next to it. If you click the plus it will expand and show all shared printers and folders for that device.

@dustinb3403 said in Scanning Domain for Shared Printers:

Has anyone had to do something like this? With the recent PrintNightmare vulnerability, we're obviously patching our systems, but we're also implementing some changes via GPO to force trusted print servers to be used, only.

What I am trying to sort out is a way to scan every system in a domain and see if it has a printer that is shared, specifically systems without the Printer sharing role installed (workstations, random servers etc).

This is a very rough hit for what I have, so I'm not sure if it actually would work. When I run it I'm getting a quota violation.

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
$comp = Get-ADComputer -Filter 'ObjectClass -eq "Computer"' | select -ExpandProperty DNSHostName
Get-Printer -ComputerName -Filter $comp  | where Shared -eq $True

While this may not cover everything you are looking for, Advanced IP Scanner will show all shared folders and printers on all systems on the network.

https://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com

@scottalanmiller said in RMM Service:

@syko24 said in RMM Service:

@scottalanmiller said in RMM Service:

@voip_n00b said in RMM Service:

What everyone using now a days?

Ideally it would cover:

• Managing both workstations and server
• Alerting
• Patching
• Remote Access
• Hosted

FoxRMM... our own blend of Zabbix, Tactica, MeshCentral, Grafana, Unifi, Salt...

Never found a commercial RMM that I'd be willing to deploy.

@scottalanmiller When you started using Tactical, did you guys start with a fresh MeshCentral or did you bring your existing into it?

We went with an existing MC with thousands of machines. And no issues, the integration was transparent. It works SO well.

Does Tactical share the same database at MeshCentral? I haven’t had a chance to spin up an install yet.

@scottalanmiller said in RMM Service:

@voip_n00b said in RMM Service:

What everyone using now a days?

Ideally it would cover:

• Managing both workstations and server
• Alerting
• Patching
• Remote Access
• Hosted

FoxRMM... our own blend of Zabbix, Tactica, MeshCentral, Grafana, Unifi, Salt...

Never found a commercial RMM that I'd be willing to deploy.

@scottalanmiller When you started using Tactical, did you guys start with a fresh MeshCentral or did you bring your existing into it?

So the only way I see you can fix this is to login to the AzureAD portal and change the UPN to the original email address and then make sure the primary email address is the new updated email address. The downside is that when you want to sign into Teams, Outlook, etc. you have to use the original email address that matches the UPN even though your primary email address is different.