@dafyre said in New Ubiquiti Unifi Switches:

@thwr said in New Ubiquiti Unifi Switches:

@dafyre said in New Ubiquiti Unifi Switches:

@thwr Looks like a yes, according to the site. The only way it could get any better would be if they made similar models with POE that would integrate into the UniFi Controller bits.

Would be awesome if they would support some sort of stacking, either soft stacking / logical stacking or "hard stacking" with a traditional daisy chain. Need to buy 4x48 port access switches soon. Just Layer 2, but I will need POE and would love to have a single console to manage them.

Edit: UniFi controller... is that some sort of central management?

Yeah. It's the same software that runs / manages all of the UnFi enabled gear. It's mainly for the APs, though.

Uhm, really? So if I got 4x 48 port access switches + 2 APs I could manage them all from a single point?

@Dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 Standard Installation media:

The only digital downloads I aware of are the VLSC licenses.

Otherwise the trial download might let you enter a real key and activate. I'm pretty sure it will. You would want to stand up a trial and then be force to scrap it if you decides to keep it, bit I suppose stranger things have happened.

Eval can be activated, even with MAK keys (and at any time you wish)

Dear Matt,

leadership of the world always has been my declared goal. But I must admit you seem mad enough to be considered a good second in command, don't you think?

Here, this could be you giving autographs:

Image credit: "Verne Troyer" by Eva Rinaldi, CC-BY-SA 2.0

Think about it!

Yours sincerly

@travisdh1 said in 900,000 Routers Knocked Offline in Germany amid Rumors of Cyber-Attack:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/900-000-routers-knocked-offline-in-germany-amid-rumors-of-cyber-attack/

***On Facebook, Deutsche Telekom engineers recommended that users unplug their devices, wait for 30 seconds and restart their router. If the equipment fails to connect to the company's network, engineers told users to disconnect their device from the company's network permanently.

To compensate the downtime, Deutsche Telekom is offering free mobile Internet until the technical problem is resolved.***

DSL routers all over Germany, and presumably worldwide if anyone else happens to be using the same DSL Modem that got hit by this.

@thwr, hope you're still running!

Sure, because I'm not a T-Online (Telekom online branch) customer. I'm using Wilhelm.Tel, a very small but great performing local ISP. They are providing FTTB/FTTH for years now, mostly on their own fibre lines, not the DSL crap that's normally sold here.

I would start by looking for "mysql mssql sync" on Google, as MariaDB is "just" a fork of MySQL.

This could help:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1951174/sync-between-sql-server-and-mysql-server

Narf, didn't pay enough attention when I just wanted to initiate a reboot.

Yeah, wasn't a secret at all. I guess it's "viral marketing" of some sort. Pick some small studio and let them post on Reddit, Twitter or somewhere else.

Anyway, as quite some people here are addicted to gaming, I thought that it would be a good to leave a note.

Maybe not an ideal question for the targeted audience?

For those who are facing heavy database load:

Was just reading this https://mangolassi.it/topic/9576/favorite-swag-tshirts/9 when I suddenly remembered one of my all time favorite t-shirts: https://www.teepublic.com/show/489153-evolution-kills

@MattSpeller said in Steam summer sale 2016: June 23 - July 4:

@thwr said in Steam summer sale 2016: June 23 - July 4:

For those who are facing heavy database load:

Holy crap

Some titles are way cheaper in canada. Some are not. Why?!?

Because we Europeans, especially we Germans, like to pay more than others. There may be quite some fees included, like the ones for artists etc. Not sure.

For example, we are paying a reproduction fee if we buy something like USB thumb drives, SD cards and even printers or DVD burners to recompensate book authors for example, because we could use such devices to copy their work... Something awfully stupid, all about lobbying.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller I should post the 2-node setup I just configured with 15TB of storage. I bet my 16k price was half of that purchase price and will out perform that setup.

Could you post some details in a dedicated thread? I'm looking for something very similar (2 nodes, mirrored storage like StarWind Virtual San etc).

@Carnival-Boy said in Sharepoint-like application that doesn't cost a huge fortune?:

I think the biggest problem with Sharepoint Foundation, in terms of cost, is the database requirements i.e. it will only run with SQL Server.

SQL Server Express is free, but is pretty limited and doesn't really seem intended for production environments. In particular the fact that databases are limited to 10GB, which seems pretty tiny for a typical Sharepoint site. So you quickly end up needing SQL Server Standard edition, which is pretty expensive. If you don't have SQL Server already, you probably need to budget for that at the outset, even if you're only planning on using Sharepoint Foundation.

I'd like Microsoft to provide something in between Express and Standard, but I'm not allowed to criticise Microsoft on ML so I'll say no more

Don't want to defile an old thread, but I need to add a few things.

First off, comparing Sharepoint to OwnCloud, while beeing a great tool, is like comparing
a warp-capable spaceship to a paperdart. SharePoint is a collaboration platform where you build your own applications on top while OwnCloud is basically a filesharing platform with a few addons.

There are quite a few factors which are driving the costs for SharePoint:

• Windows Server CALs (few known users / devices) or Windows Server for Internet Sites ("CAL" flatrate, mucho dinero)
• SQL Server, Standard or higher edition and CALs (UserCAL's for SQL server are very expensive. Use this for a few known users) or Core edition (Flatrate, can be more or less "cheap". I'm using this one)
• If going past SP Foundation:
  a) SharePoint CAL, Standard should suffice in most cases
  b) SharePoint for Internet Sites if public facing with anonymous access
  c) You will most probably need a farm, at least one frontend and one backend server.
• ForeFront UAG/TMG and CAL (used to be the only "supported" reverse proxy). Not sold anymore, no successor available, Windows Server publishing role is used today

So SharePoint Standard / Enterprise on a public facing site with anonymous access can burn through your budget like Oracle and SAP. SharePoint for a known user base can be OK from a licensing point of view. Today, SharePoint on Office365 is way cheaper than having something on premise I guess.

SharePoint has a lot to offer and I haven't found anything FOSS that comes even close myself yet. Alfresco is the only one that at least is a very little bit like SharePoint, but nothing I would call a replacement.

So what is SharePoint actually? Simply said, anything you want it to be. It's an application platform with multiple frontends, the well known website is just one of them.

Just hard stopped a VM with software from a project partner. Written in Java, all kinds of fancy frameworks involved and to what result? 100% CPU load, 100% RAM usage, so really bad system load, swapping to dead, loads of processes spawning, unresponsive shell, ...

Said that before, I am myself way more a developer than an admin... and I hate that: People are using all sorts of frameworks and APIs without thinking about consequences or side effects. I'm sure they will have a very hard time to debug that. But at least it's fancy and written in Java...

I would like to discuss some options for replacing the most popular Microsoft server products with free and/or open source alternatives. To keep the discussion aligned, I will create quite a few threads over the course of the next weeks.

My major concern about using Microsoft software is not about the quality or the price. It's about managing all the licensing, which really is a PITA and nearly impossible to overcome for just a one or two men show. I just don't have the time to do a two week research for SharePoint licensing or keeping our upgrade documentation updated.

This thread here should be used only for general aspects about this topic.

TOC:

1. Active Directory and Domain Controllers

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1678789-what-gpos-do-you-use-to-chain-down-win10

Sounds like someone needs a tin foil cowboy hat... and a different career (user name is blahblah1969 with 1 whole year in IT...)

Should reply install Linux Mint.

Maybe it's smarter to fill his NICs plug with hot glue?

But Big Brother Microsoft will still be spying on you somehow....

Yeah sure, data modulated and outputted via speakers, so skip hot glueing and use some 2 component epoxid. Apply that gently to all PCIe-, USB-, Audio-,(...)-slots. A more permanent solution.

@scottalanmiller said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

@Dashrender said in Alternatives for Microsoft server products:

In a 100 user environment, $1,400 a month or $16,800 a year. If you need local Office this is suddenly $33,600/yr (damn that's a huge pile to swallow!)

Not as big as not using O365, though. Then you face the cost of additional staff to get similar features and reliability. Then the costs really add up.

@Dashrender I've got a full blown MS environment. SP, Exchange, SQL Server, Hyper-V... Basically everything but Linq and Dynamics. Your numbers may be correct for Open License, but I am on a Select 6. I am not allowed to talk about numbers, but it's way less. The reason for on-site are data privacy concerns, we are managing eye's only and above research projects using SP.

@scottalanmiller I'm totally aware of all the license management overhead and actually that's my primary concern. I just want to figure out if there are valid alternatives available.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1678789-what-gpos-do-you-use-to-chain-down-win10

Sounds like someone needs a tin foil cowboy hat... and a different career (user name is blahblah1969 with 1 whole year in IT...)

Should reply install Linux Mint.

Maybe it's smarter to fill his NICs plug with hot glue?

But Big Brother Microsoft will still be spying on you somehow....

Yeah sure, data modulated and outputted via speakers, so skip hot glueing and use some 2 component epoxid. Apply that gently to all PCIe-, USB-, Audio-,(...)-slots. A more permanent solution.

He should probably apply the same epoxy to the various holes in his head too... don't want them sneaking a peek at your inner thoughts!

Hehe. Now, I think that it should be OK to change jobs later on in your career. But especially IT is all about experience and analytical thinking (hot glue -> upgrade to epoxy), IMHO.

@Mike-Davis said in Tape drive alternative besides online backup for offsite backup:

4 drives in less than 3 years. When I was brought in backups were a big concern to them because the last guy did nightly backups to an external hard drive, but they discovered a quickbooks error and needed to go back a month. He was overwriting the backup every night, so they had nothing useful to work from.

I tried to talk them in to online backups, and eventually went for a USB tape drive because I needed something that work work through ESXi.

I'll have to see if the software will let me swap out USB drives with out re-configuring the backup job each time.

You should take a look at StarWind's free Tape Redirector. Wrote something about that on my blog last month: https://www.windrath.com/2016/05/sas-tape-library-hyperv-vm-starwind-tape-redirector/.

There's also a current SW topic about that here: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1683645-got-a-new-lto-7-drive-now-what-back-up-nas?page=1#entry-5957833. @Kooler (StarWind) made a post there with quite some good info.

Basically, that's a piece of software that will virtually transport your local tape drive via iSCSI. Not sure if that works with USB drives, but it works rock solid and at wire speed for my Overland SAS drive. My backup software runs within a Hyper-V VM, tape drive is attached to one of my HV hosts. No PCIe passthrough available in my version of HyperV (2012R2).

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Yeah, good morning everyone ...

(Why the heck did I join a US IT community again? ;))

It's only ~3PM over there, so suck it up.

Plus we're more fun then everywhere else.

You bet :upside_down: