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.

Voip.ms??? Seems pretty basic but not sure what features you are looking for.

https://wiki.voip.ms/article/SMS

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

@dashrender said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

what's also weird - I didn't get any vultr emails about the issue.

I always get NJ emails. Time to dig into that I guess.

Are you running systems in the Chicago datacenter?

Yes. And I know the phones being down for 30 mins is not a huge deal. Just wanted to see if you guys had a way to failover the phones if something like this happens.

@jaredbusch said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

@syko24 said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

I have 2 customers that don't have access to their systems at this point. I am hopeful Vultr will get their sh*t together soon and get the issue resolved. Just curious are there any good suggestions for failover in this kind of situation or an option to move your instance to a different data center? Or would you just spin up a temporary instance and restore from a backup?

There are no simple choices for this.

If your systems are so critical that a short outage is a huge deal, then you need to look into using a platform with capabilities to handle it. Vultr is not that platform.

It's for a medical office so to them it is critical. I was about to forward their calls via voip.ms to their call service but then their instance came up as I was logging into voip.ms.

The 2 customer instances just came back online!!

I have 2 customers that don't have access to their systems at this point. I am hopeful Vultr will get their sh*t together soon and get the issue resolved. Just curious are there any good suggestions for failover in this kind of situation or an option to move your instance to a different data center? Or would you just spin up a temporary instance and restore from a backup?

@joel said in Black Screen of death! Is this a Dell thing?:

Hi Guys has anyone come across an issue where the computer powers on but after the manufacters logo (dell for example) the screen goes black and it stays on that screen?

Note: i can use our RMM remote tools to log onto the computer but it's also stuck on a black screen (so cant control it). I can however do file transfers and navigate via remote background to the C: - therefore the computer is online and working but the screen for end user (and us remotely) is blank!

I've looked at new monitors, uninstalling graphics card drivers, running disk and hardware scans, system restores (fails) and a bit lost .... i'm seeing this happen more and more in the last couple weeks.

I dont know if Bitlocker has anything to do with it but have disabled this and rebooted but still have the black screen!

I have attempted to rollback updates and that also doesnt fix it!

Safe mode works fine

Have updated drivers, bios, chipsets all of that good stuff but still no luck getting this working in normal mode and was curious to see if anyone else has had this one! Very odd!

In all cases, it's resulted in a re-format.

I think Dell devices are more affected.

@Joel - When you access via SafeMode does the Event Viewer have anything relevant to the issue?

@mr-jones said in Who's sharing that printer?:

I'm wondering if anyone knows a solid way to track down who is sharing a network printer in a Windows environment?

I have all network printers deployed via GP, and per OU as appropriate, but I'm seeing someone else has shared one, and renamed it something outside of my naming convention. I'm trying to track down which client has done so. I'm currently digging around, but I'm not finding anything.

Any ideas?

Not sure if this is what you are looking for but you can use Advanced IP Scanner and run a network scan. If a system has any shares it will list them below system name/ip address.

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

@dashrender said in Samsung (android) device not syncing the calendar with O365:

I wonder if the security requirements changed on their account and an Application password needs to be used now - or an app that supports modern authentication?

@Dashrender - I was going to say the same thing though it is strange the email portion seems to be working.

@jaredbusch - Just confirming are you using the Outlook app on Android or are you using the Android Calendar app?

If I run into issues with the calendar on Android I usually just remove the account and re-add it. I know that is not really a fix but hopefully gets things syncing again.

@jaredbusch said in Samsung (android) device not syncing the calendar with O365:

Site is O365 SMB $12.50 plan Email + apps. Has been for a couple years now.

Most employees have company iPhones.

But a few high level users use personal devices. One has a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus. Email works fine, but the calendar app does not.

The Exchange account is the only calendar active. the rest are unselected. New events created on the phone are not showing up in Outlook's calendar (using Outlook via the web GUI not Outlook desktop app).

I created an event for this afternoon on her device and it does not show up.

I check the sync status (and hit sync now) in both the Calendar app and in the settings app.

Nothing.

Any hints on how to troubleshoot?

Nothings seems to update.

I doubt this is it, but I had a client that had about 8 ActiveSync devices (old phones and tablets) still registered under their account. Email and calendar stopped syncing until we removed some of the old devices.