Best posts made by travisdh1

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Practicing installation of Red Hat Identity Manager.

Hrm, I think it's about time I poked at FreeIPA again.

@srsmith Every time I see Dynamics mentined, I cringe. It's such a mishmash of this, that, another thing, why don't we go ahead and throw in the kitchen sink as well? It's worse to attempt to support than even Quickbooks with all of it's known issues.

If nobody is available at the MSP to support it, have them open a ticket with Microsoft. It sucks not being able to interact with Microsoft directly, but with nobody left at the MSP that knows your particular instance of Dynamics there is probably nobody that knows what might have happened where.

@stuartjordan said in KVM or VMWare:

@obsolesce I should of imagined it had something to do with Azure.

Probably has a little something to do with the $10 per core/month fee as well.

@notverypunny said in KVM or VMWare:

@dbeato said in KVM or VMWare:

@jaredbusch It is supported you can either pay for support or run OpenSource.
https://xcp-ng.com/

It has been super stable compared to Xenserver/Citrix XenServer.

Not looking to take over or diverge too much, but what stability issues did you have on Citrix? We're a 95% Citrix shop and rarely have issues with the hypervisor knock wood Just wondering if we're lucky or if there's something else at play.

I never had any issues with stability when running Xenserver. I quit using it because they kept pulling features out of it, or charging licensing fees for features that were once free.

@jasgot said in Understanding STUN???:

@travisdh1 said in Understanding STUN???:

@jasgot said in Understanding STUN???:

@travisdh1 said in Understanding STUN???:

You'll need to open network ports to the UniFi controller on the firewall it sits behind.

Except I'm not certain I even want STUN. If it does not provide a required component for these APS to work (they are working without it now) , I'll likely to leave those ports closed on the controller side.

That's the thing, they'll work in the current configuration, but you can't update any settings.

How so? I can make all kinds of changes and even open a debug terminal to it without STUN working.

Then that makes no sense to me. If the setup is as you describe in your initial post, then there has to be some way they are communicating through both firewalls.

@gjacobse said in HTML Editing:

As I search threads on HTML and specifically HTML editing, why not add one to the mix.

It's been a good while since I've done much HTML editing - most of the time when I was doing HTML editing I at least was editing existing code, or searching code to change one or two things.

I'm trying to clean up some SharePoint HTML that has gotten a bit messing with change of font and formatting. What I would like to be able to do - is strip all of the HTML code, leaving the text and URL for the text (clickable link).

Is there any suggested applications that would do such a thing, or is it likely that I'll need to go link by link?

I've not found any better way than using the search and replace with whitespace like @dave247 already mentioned. Also, the last time I did any actual coding instead of scripting was ~8 years ago now, and I used Dreamweaver to do it shudders

@irj said in KVM or VMWare:

@francesco-provino said in KVM or VMWare:

@WLS-ITGuy I haven’t been in this forum for years, and after years I still see similar questions and the same arguing…

Do yourself a favor and learn something useful like Terraform to automate VMware or similar stuff, the real deal today is not wasting your time reinventing the wheel and doing manual operations, not saving a few bucks on hypervisor’s license.

I agree here. Many on here don't understand the benefits of IaC and proper SDLC because they haven't been exposed to it yet. Penny wise and pound foolish.

Granted many of these one man shops don't have the resources (IT employees) to do it. If you're fixing printers you don't have the bandwidth to do this kind of stuff. Either way there is still pain in the long run for not doing automation, but for them it's just not feasible.

I'm all in favor of automation.

What I question is why you NEED VMWare to automate things? I've done it with XenServer/XCP-NG, and I don't see why anyone couldn't also automate KVM based things as well.

@irj said in ADUC Set Password Expiry:

@gjacobse said in ADUC Set Password Expiry:

It's likely we have all had to address this at some point in the last eighteen months or so; A person sent to work from home for whatever reason has just had their password expire. They don't expect to be back into the office for (x) number of days.

Why are they treated any different compared to any other user? You either need AD access or you don't. Working from home doesn't change that aspect.

If they work from home, authenticate to AD every day, then why can't they reset their password?

If they work from home and don't use AD for 90+ days, then why do they even have AD account at all?

Resetting a password remotely does not work automatically like it does on-site. The users have to manually do it themselves before the password expires. I'll give you one guess how many users even know how to change it manually

My apologies for resurrecting a long dead thread, but I just collected the links today because I've had multiple places I wanted to reference them this week.

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/lenovo-superfish-adware-uninstall-fix/
https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2477277,00.asp
http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-reportedly-blocking-linux-on-windows-10-signature-edition-pcs/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/11320/pentagon-warns-against-using-lenovo-equipment
https://mangolassi.it/topic/7748/lenovo-screws-the-pooch-yet-again-on-the-security-front
https://mangolassi.it/topic/5751/lenovo-accused-of-using-rootkit-like-methods-to-sneak-software-onto-clean-windows-installs
https://threatpost.com/millions-of-pcs-affected-by-mysterious-computrace-backdoor-2/107700/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/23/lenovo_solution_centre_cve_2019_6177/

https://mangolassi.it/topic/14538/lenovo-if-it-s-on-your-network-you-are-breached/50

And a few days later, yet another patched version to fix the broken fix. Isn't security so much fun?

https://community.ui.com/releases/UniFi-Network-Application-6-5-55/48c64137-4a4a-41f7-b7e4-3bee505ae16e

@dashrender said in Lenovo - if it's on your network, you ARE breached.:

@travisdh1 said in Lenovo - if it's on your network, you ARE breached.:

@dashrender said in Lenovo - if it's on your network, you ARE breached.:

@travisdh1 said in Lenovo - if it's on your network, you ARE breached.:

@gjacobse said in Lenovo - if it's on your network, you ARE breached.:

I'd like to see recent references; everything I have found hasn't been updated / linked to since 2019 about the 2014-2015 incident.

What has changed? Nothing.

Why should anyone keep reporting no news?

Exactly - There's nothing newer because they haven't been caught doing any dirty shit in the past 2-3 years. But at the same time - the same management is in charge, so why would we expect them to do things right?

I just confirmed Superfish is still around because of that laptop from last week that got sent back!

Not sure what you mean?

Of course - if you didn't uninstall the software and didn't update to the newer driver that removed Superfish, then it will still be around - just like the millions of machines that never get updated and have Melissa still running around the internet (ok maybe not millions today).

This was a laptop manufactured April 2021 from the factory. So I really don't care if there are alternatives available. Lenovo has proven to lie about it so often already that it's to much of a risk, and legal liability.

@dashrender said in Lenovo - if it's on your network, you ARE breached.:

@travisdh1 said in Lenovo - if it's on your network, you ARE breached.:

@gjacobse said in Lenovo - if it's on your network, you ARE breached.:

I'd like to see recent references; everything I have found hasn't been updated / linked to since 2019 about the 2014-2015 incident.

What has changed? Nothing.

Why should anyone keep reporting no news?

Exactly - There's nothing newer because they haven't been caught doing any dirty shit in the past 2-3 years. But at the same time - the same management is in charge, so why would we expect them to do things right?

I just confirmed Superfish is still around because of that laptop from last week that got sent back!

@pete-s said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@dashrender said in Best practice MFP scanning to email for M365 shop?:

@gjacobse
what brand MFPs are those?

My Canon's do fine with 1.2 to MS.

Do you set up the MFP with credentials from a M365 user?

Yep, need a licensed account, and the lowest priced one doesn't work. I forget what it's called at the moment, but you need a license that includes the local apps.

@wrcombs said in Windows 11 auto upgrade?:

Has anyone noticed an uptick in Windows10 auto upgrading to Windows11 due to windows updates?
Seeing this with many Back office PC's where they "leave at the end of the night and it's windows10 and the come back and it's windows 11"

Just curious if were the only one's seeing this

I haven't seen this yet.

It's likely just a matter of time, weather through user ignorance, Microsoft behaving badly, or both.

@garak0410 Try going into each AP and disabling all un-needed features. We've had a lot of trouble in the past year with meshing getting turned on after a controller update. Causes the APs to attempt routing between each other instead of the wire they're plugged into. Creates a network loop that packets never escape from.

@jimmy9008 said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@travisdh1 said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@jimmy9008 said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@scottalanmiller

I get what ya'll are saying but thats just not how it is here. My options are replace what is there with new, or keep what is there and let it grow older.

I'll keep looking at options on my own, but thanks folks.

If you just want to buy a solution without doing your homework to figure out what's right for the business, just get new servers and keep paying the crazy license fees for VMWare/Citrix (I'm assuming you've got the HA VMWare license.)

Without knowing what apps are running in the VDI, all we can do is generalize.

Are you stuck with VMWare and/or Citrix because of management? Big cost savings in moving away from those, even if you keep paying for support IE: Scale or Starwind

More details would be needed to make any solid recommendations.

I am more than capable of being able to appraise solutions to meet our business needs. My question was asking for a list of solutions "What would you suggest we look at?", not to be told to not look at VDI as its wrong. I'll decide that. I was hoping the community could point me to solutions, vendors, resources which you have used and had experience of. I see the people on here as experienced so wanted to ask here, I should have just looked at g2.

Well, I think @scottalanmiller already explained much better than I ever could that VDI Modernization is a contradiction in terms. If you're stuck using VDI, then you by definition are not modernizing.

As to different platforms to run it on, that's why I suggested Scale or Starwind to run the Citrix solution.

@scotth said in Outage - Armstrong in N-Western PA:

Could easily be.
I'm not sure (maybe Windstream -- ugh) is the next hop up from one of our sites in NE Ohio and they were down all day Monday.
Some odd behavior with our cell service lately too. We have dead spots where we have never had issues before. Verizon, in this case.

The storms that came through earlier this week wrecked havock on infrastructure in NE Ohio. We still have roads closed and people we know are not due to get power restored till this weekend.

At work I've cleared a record number of tickets this week because we had so many outages.

@gjacobse said in ManageEngine: Desktop Central - MFA:

@scottalanmiller

It is a gas soaked bonfire waiting for a match.

Fixed that for you.

@Fredtx said in 2 disks or 1 disk with 2 partitions for new VM?:

@scottalanmiller It's amazing how different types of technology has been around for some time, and people act like some of this stuff is new. Like touch screens for example, everyone was so amazed at them, yet they had been around for years in grocery stores. lol.

We were using CRT touchscreens in the mid 90s in high school.... they've been around a long time for sure!