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So I am working with a new client and have reviewed what equipment they currently have in place. Couple items of concern are that the old IT company has not provided any information and refuse to hand over passwords. They have told the office manager of the company that it would be a security risk for them to have the passwords. My question is will a domain registrar allow the company to reset the password or is this going to have to go to the attorneys? Old IT also controls the Office365 account. All the internal equipment - servers, switches, and routers I can likely factory reset in order to regain access.

@Mr-Jones - check your firewall and make sure port 25 is forwarding to your Exchange server.

Try https://canyouseeme.org/ and check port 25

@Mr-Jones - on mxtoolbox just type in the search line:

tcp:mail.mydomain.com:25

Press enter and see if it says the port is open.

@Mr-Jones said in Exchange 2016 Environment DNS entries help:

@syko24 said in Exchange 2016 Environment DNS entries help:

@Mr-Jones - on mxtoolbox just type in the search line:

tcp:mail.mydomain.com:25

Press enter and see if it says the port is open.

Thanks. It throws an "unable to connect" and then lists the GoDaddy IPv4 address that's associated with the A record of mail.mydoamin.com

So either a firewall issue or your isp may be blocking port 25. Is this business internet with a static ip?

@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/

Having audio issues with a hosted FreePBX on Vultr. The client's office has Uverse which I am sure is part of the problem. I have incoming audio but no outgoing. Does AT&T block outbound RTP or is there something I need to modify on the AT&T modem/router? I am using an edgerouter with pretty much stock settings and set with a static WAN address. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

@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.

@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

@danp said in Is VOIP.MS down?:

It appears that they are using CloudFlare. I thought that using a service like this would help avoid / mitigate such problems.

According to posts on their Twitter, it looks like they switched over to CloudFlare after the fact.

@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.

I'm a fan of the one liner assuming you are transferring all roles to the same DC.

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "DC-Server" -OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4


0: PDCEmulator
1: RIDMaster
2: InfrastructureMaster
3: SchemaMaster
4: DomainNamingMaster