Well, that was an interesting afternoon. Had a client O365 email get "hacked". No 2FA enabled on that one user account. No surprise there.

@mr-jones said in "Site not secure" | Self-signed Certificate?:

Can you prevent the formentioned error when visiting a domain server from a domain computer with a self-signed certificate? i.e. https://server:8080

I've been doing a lot of reading on it and after failing repeately at the task, I read somewhere that no matter what you'll get that error unless the certificate is from a public Certificate Authority. But I read a lot of things on the internet that aren't quite right. My brain hurts, it's Friday, and I know this group would know the right answer.

I'm wondering if I'm just doing things wrong, but before I dive into what I've tried, I wanted this question answered so I know if I need a different approach or not. Ultimately, I don't want to have to pay for an SSL, but I'll cross that road when I come to it.

You can, but you have to add the SSL cert for https://server:8080 to every certificate store on each of the computers. Hopefully all your software uses the system certificate store, but you'll want to double check.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Place is kind of quiet today - everyone out at the Bars today?

Nope, just the Sherrif's office and fire department. Sheriff still refuses to keep me

inside joke I missed or are you serious? LOL

Nope, just a bad joke. I've gotten so many great reactions from people while I'm working at the jail and get a phone call tho. "Sorry, I'm at the jail right now and have to finish this up. Can I touch base with you latter?" So many people hear "I'm in the jail right now"

Amzaon delivered my digital copy ~2 weeks early. Not that I'll have time to read it anytime soon

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Place is kind of quiet today - everyone out at the Bars today?

Nope, just the Sherrif's office and fire department. Sheriff still refuses to keep me

This doesn't sound like they need a 2nd host to me. Is management not happy with a 4 hour part replacement warranty on a single server?

If they insist on at least 2 hosts, I think you're on the right track. No need for ESXi.

Edit: fixed bad grammar

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Running some basic tasks -
Image PC, Update, Join Domain, install final apps.
Swap battery from one model to another (same battery type/size)
General Monday stuff on a monday.

We picked up six inches of snow Friday night / Saturday morning. It's all but gone now,.. really was late yesterday.

Also wondering where everyone is at today.. nearly noon and all I have seen are crickets...

On site wondering what is going on with Ubiquiti APs. Devices had only been able to communicate with internet and other devices connected to the AP on the same network. Started working properly a few minutes ago, no rhyme or reason why the change. At least it's working now, and I was here when it started working.

@dashrender said in Chrome: unable to play YT Video; weirdness:

@gjacobse said in Chrome: unable to play YT Video; weirdness:

@wrcombs said in Chrome: unable to play YT Video; weirdness:

@gjacobse said in Chrome: unable to play YT Video; weirdness:

This isn't the first time this has happened, and sadly I don't remember directly what I did to fix it. But, when I go to play videos - on Youtube or on other sites this is what I get:

I just finished a reset - but that didn't help.... Seems I'm the only one that deals with this... in our IT dept or the org. Weird...

can you play them in porn mode on chrome?

In the what now?

Come on man - You've been around JB enough to know Porn mode, haven't you?

I've been calling it porn mode way longer that I've known JB. He does tend to keep it front of mind tho

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Messing around with software raid and mdadm.

Good stuff right there, add a little LVM and you've got a great storage stack.

What I'm wanting to do when redo my lab server is not use the hardware RAID controller and Linux handle the RAID. I'm practicing on some VMs first.

MD or ZFS?

He already stated MD earlier, you need more coffee!

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

The horror!

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Messing around with software raid and mdadm.

Good stuff right there, add a little LVM and you've got a great storage stack.

@dashrender said in Server 2012 R2 not installing Updates:

@itivan80 said in Server 2012 R2 not installing Updates:

I never ever liked windows update service. In one hand they fix some issues but in the other hand they create more unnecessary issues. I am glad you were able to isolate the update and made it work congrats.

I agree that MS should do better at making updates, but all things considered - with millions if not billions of combinations and different setups - they could definitely have way more issues.

But Jason - Linux Distros have billions upon Billions of deployments and they don't have these issues... or so we're told.

It's not that linux distros don't have issues with updates, it's just that they are so very rare.

Myself, personally, have only ever had a single bad update that actual broke things in 25+ years of running different linux distros.

@oksana said in Changes to Kerberos and Azure Active Directory Authentication:

Kerberos is an authentication protocol that has been around since Windows Server 2000.

That should read: Kerberos is an authentication protocol that was introduced to Windows in Server 2000.

It was around for a long time before then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(protocol)

Another day, another QB issue. This one user created (misplaced company file).

@scottalanmiller said in Will faxes ever die - cheapest way to forward a DID:

@travisdh1 said in Will faxes ever die - cheapest way to forward a DID:

The Microsoft support wasn't a surprise to me, but my boss acted like he'd never heard of Microsoft support failing before.

Maybe it was his first time using a computer.

Funny because it could be true.

@dashrender said in Will faxes ever die - cheapest way to forward a DID:

@scottalanmiller said in Will faxes ever die - cheapest way to forward a DID:

@dashrender said in Will faxes ever die - cheapest way to forward a DID:

But - as JB pointed out, it's 3 times the price I pay now for the solution I have in place that already works well.

Oh, I thought you were using Cox lines now, not VoIP.

Like you - I talk from many angles since I support a day job and do consulting.

From my day job - we mostly have our faxes delivered directly to our EMR vendor and they handle much of the processing - those they can't, they dump into a bucket inside the EMR for us to handle.
We also have a few remaining fax lines from Cox, mostly for outbound, that I am trying to get rid of.

As for my consulting clients - some use a third party directly into the LOB software, some use use faxes into FreePBX -> O365 email box -> Power Automate -> Sharepoint location.

I'm sure I don't always spell it out which I'm talking about when I'm writing something.

We've tried to setup the same type of workflow before with Power Automate, but Power Automate never seems to work like the documentation says it should. Even Microsoft support couldn't get it working.

The Microsoft support wasn't a surprise to me, but my boss acted like he'd never heard of Microsoft support failing before.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Wrapping up the week with a server outage. Yay.

Here I was annoyed by a "can you look at this AP" tonight when I thought I'd be headed home.

Hope it gets fixed quick!

Waiting for new Azure services to deploy, all freaking afternoon.

Makes me appreciate DigitalOcean and Linode even more.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Good morning, everyone!

Uck, not enough coffee. Course there never is. I'll really get moving around lunch time

@oksana That whole situation sucks, hope you all are safe and well!