@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!

@dashrender said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@scottalanmiller said in VDI Options - Modernization:

@dashrender said in VDI Options - Modernization:

I'm really curious to know what is running on this VDI platform that makes it needed in first place - especially for 600-1000 users.

Dollars to donuts, I bet it is ERP related or similar.

horrible it's pulling data to the local session and working locally on it - or are they doing it simply for security reasons?

I know there are other applications, under active development today, that still do this..... and is just one reason I have a nervous twitch whenever I see Microsoft Dynamics.

@dashrender said in UniFi Wi-Fi Has No Internet:

@travisdh1 said in UniFi Wi-Fi Has No Internet:

@garak0410 said in UniFi Wi-Fi Has No Internet:

@garak0410 said in UniFi Wi-Fi Has No Internet:

UPDATE...

I wanted to compare the settings between the site that is working and this site. Both sites use the Pepwave for the gateway. The only difference I've seen in the WAN settings is that this site with No Wi-Fi has LAN PASSTHROGH selected...

That's the only difference I've seen on the gateway end...

I unchecked this and have at least one AP a Dynamic and it is working...we have internet on the WiFI now.

Yep, that would do it all right. I guess someone might want that option at some point, but it would be an oddball thing to do.

What is this setting doing?

Routing all traffic through a single other device, so when the other device is not a router....

@garak0410 said in UniFi Wi-Fi Has No Internet:

@garak0410 said in UniFi Wi-Fi Has No Internet:

UPDATE...

I wanted to compare the settings between the site that is working and this site. Both sites use the Pepwave for the gateway. The only difference I've seen in the WAN settings is that this site with No Wi-Fi has LAN PASSTHROGH selected...

That's the only difference I've seen on the gateway end...

I unchecked this and have at least one AP a Dynamic and it is working...we have internet on the WiFI now.

Yep, that would do it all right. I guess someone might want that option at some point, but it would be an oddball thing to do.

@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:

@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.

Oh come on, seriously. How on earth is that a contradiction in terms. I like this forum but some time people on it can be ridiculous with rubbish like that. You can modernize many things in a wide range of ways and saying that a 'VDI cannot be modernized' as that is not how you think something should be done is just pure rubbish.

You are running Windows Server 2008r2, and are considering migrating to Windows Server 2022!... that is not modernizing... your workload should be SaaS/Cloud! Yeah, BS. You can modernize without being SaaS/Online services.

Oh! You want to modernize and move from HDD/Spinners to NVMe... well tough luck, you cant modernize like that dumbass... your storage should be a blob in Azure.. Local storage, pfft. No way is that 'modern' anymore!

You want tomodernize your compute and use PMEM. Oh shoot! That cant be modernized as you should be using a VM in AWS. BS!

You can take outdated infrastructure and modernize it in many ways - just because ya'll believe in narrow minded dogmatic BS like 'my way is the right way' you think this is a contradiction in terms. LOL. WOW.

You can take old VDI infrastructure and modernize it. Contradiction my ass! If this is what I can expect from this forum I may as well post on Spiceworks. Gosh.

So, are you even considering basing things on Scale or Starwind as your underlying solution, or are we just ignoring half of what I say?

@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.

@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.

Waiting for Ingram/Azure account to be provisioned. Only been 1 hour now, any bets on if we have an account provisioned before 5pm today?

@dustinb3403 said in Need Regex Help:

@travisdh1 No, backend database access isn't available to me.

Well, that's a little ****y. No db gui has given me everything I wanted to do with a database.

@dustinb3403 said in Need Regex Help:

@pete-s Thank you for the help, unfortunately it appears I'm limited to PostgresSQL regex like below or directly selecting the installed software from the list of thousands of items.

\b(?!:Microsoft|Anti-Virus)\b

I have no options for a subquery, at least that I can see at the moment.

Are you able to access the database outside of whatever tooling they provide? Being PostgreSQL, you should be able to. Get to the point where you can write your own query and go from there (you can do most anything with the data you want then.)