Not sure anyone mentioned HostiFi. You can get a free account for a single site.

https://hostifi.net

@Pete-S said in Can remote desktop Win10 be remotely activated somehow?:

Thanks guys. I tried accessing remote registry, remote powershell and ssh but without success. I have to find out how they do their remote administration and get them to enable rdp for me. It was worth a shot though.

Try MMC and see if you can add Services for their computer. If you can add that successfully then you can enable Remote Registry and then from there enable rdp. Make sure you restart the rdp service after making the registry change.

Another method would be if you have PDQ deploy installed on another system at the location, you can try to push a ScreenConnect or similar install to the system.

@Pete-S said in Envelopes in Brother Printers:

It's very common. I'd say it's a standard feature.

You want thick materials to pass as straight through as possible. Laws of physics are at play, not anything else. Same thing printing on other types of heavy stock or things that you do not want to bend.

Larger printers can have larger diameter rolls inside and can handle a little thicker stock without sending it straight through.

I guess I get that with bending and going through the rollers it's going to be too thick for a smooth transition. I just know the conversation is going to start off with "Well my last printer didn't need to do that".

As long as I can back up that most modern printers need to do this there's not much more to argue about it.

@wrx7m - Yeah it looks like most of the Brother printers advertise this as how to print envelopes. I also suggested to the client to see if they can change the paper type or size via the settings menu on the printer for the manual tray.

Seems like such a dumb design. I can’t imagine anyone thinking it is normal to have to open up the back and then unlatch the fuser tabs to print an envelope.

Is it common that you have to open the back cover on a Brother printer in order to send envelopes through? Is this common on most laser printers? The below video shows and example of what I am talking about. A client called asking me why the envelopes come out all crinkled when they print. I sent them this video. I kind of feel like that is a pain but if that is common in all or most laser printers what can you do right?

Youtube Video

@Dashrender said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

@scottalanmiller said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

@scotth said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

We got a quote for $800 / mo. for 3,000 FAXes / mo. -- approx 9,000 pages / mo. A few POTS lines and an Intermec Multitech FAX server paid for that rather quickly.
Sorry folks, but there are industries that will FAX no matter the opinion of others.

Not a horrible price, but supposedly way, way higher than the voip.ms price. Which is like $200-$270 supposedly.

There's a huge difference here though Scott - with the VOIP.ms solution, YOU have to provide the ATA, the fax modem, the local storage, etc.

With those online solutions, you just have, heck - your phone.

I've played around with using a voice line from VOIP.MS for sending faxes as they advertise support for t38. It is very hit or miss though whether faxes successfully send or not. I sometimes get the feeling that it depends on who the receiving provider is. If I send to a Comcast phone line it seems to typically go through. If I send to an AT&T line it seems to error out near the end of the fax.

VOIP.MS recently started advertising FoIP but it still requires having a virtualfax number as well as a voiceline.

Scroll all the way to the bottom
https://wiki.voip.ms/article/Virtual_Fax

@openit said in Free alternative for OpenDNS, with minimal info on what's going on?:

Hi there,

I am looking to add one more layer for security by securing DNS at our office for free, if possible.

I had a look on OpenDNS (free available only for Home), Quad9 (free for business, but no information on what's going on - reports/dashboard), Comodo Dome Shield (free one is limited for 300k dns queries).....

I'm looking for free, even if there's no control to add black list/policies, default policies are fine, but need little info/dashboard on what's going on through our Network.

Thanks!
NXFilter is a good solution. It is not free but pretty inexpensive. It also supports AD and LDAP so you can be granular at the pc level or even the user level.

Nxfilter.org

@dafyre said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

@syko24 said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

@dafyre said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

@Pete-S said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

Fax usually just needs a modem, which could be connected over serial or usb.

If the software requires windows fax server then it will probably work with any type of fax device that windows supports.

Something like this:
https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/usr5637/

Don't know what pass through options there are in Hyper-V so you have to check that.

Anyway, fax communication protocols are old so it doesn't really requires anything special in the form of hardware.
Looking at amazon I see USB modems from like $15 or so.

And you could potentially look at some kind of USB over IP solution to get the USB modem into the VM, no matter which server it's located on.

The software vendor specifically says they only support Mainpipe fax cards. There is some kind of add on software that Mainpipe includes that allows it to work properly with their software.

Don’t know if this is just marketing BS.
http://www.mainpine.com/fax-service-provider-iqfsp.php

I can probably get the $15 usb fax card. But then I run the risk of the vender telling me they don’t support that card and waste more of my time.

@dafyre said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

@Pete-S said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

Fax usually just needs a modem, which could be connected over serial or usb.

If the software requires windows fax server then it will probably work with any type of fax device that windows supports.

Something like this:
https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/usr5637/

Don't know what pass through options there are in Hyper-V so you have to check that.

Anyway, fax communication protocols are old so it doesn't really requires anything special in the form of hardware.
Looking at amazon I see USB modems from like $15 or so.

And you could potentially look at some kind of USB over IP solution to get the USB modem into the VM, no matter which server it's located on.

The software vendor specifically says they only support Mainpipe fax cards. There is some kind of add on software that Mainpipe includes that allows it to work properly with their software.

@scottalanmiller said in Any way to pass through pci fax modem in hyper-v:

Or #4, surprise them with the fact it is 2019 and they don't need fax

I have a ticket in with the software company to see if they have a efax option but I doubt it.