@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with "Internet" issues. Anyone else seeing some general "slowdown?"

Started about 45 minutes ago.

Yeah, my cat chewed my internet cable over the weekend.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 I am sure is N-Able the new Solarwinds name

Sure is, we use it.... yuck.

@dave247 said in best way to map various combinations of mapped drives to AD users?:

@travisdh1 said in best way to map various combinations of mapped drives to AD users?:

@dave247 said in best way to map various combinations of mapped drives to AD users?:

I could probably use group policy to make a mapping for each drive, then assign each GPO to the necessary user.. but I feel like that would still be a little numerous or something.

Also, I know usually this sort of things is group based access, but we have a small company and many people wear multiple hats and essentially we end up with multiple combinations of access for every employee which makes group based permissions and things challenging.

I think you're halfway there. Yes, use GPO, but instead of assigning users to each GPO, create a group and assign the group to the GPO. Once everything is created, all you have to do for who gets what is add/remove users from the group for the drive mapping.

You mean make a group and apply each GPO for each drive to it, then add users? That makes sense.

Yep

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Doing what folks do best at DragonCon. Waiting in line

Donating blood!

What the heck is DragonCon? There better not be any Wyverns here....

Apparently just vampires, no Wyvers

@dave247 said in best way to map various combinations of mapped drives to AD users?:

I could probably use group policy to make a mapping for each drive, then assign each GPO to the necessary user.. but I feel like that would still be a little numerous or something.

Also, I know usually this sort of things is group based access, but we have a small company and many people wear multiple hats and essentially we end up with multiple combinations of access for every employee which makes group based permissions and things challenging.

I think you're halfway there. Yes, use GPO, but instead of assigning users to each GPO, create a group and assign the group to the GPO. Once everything is created, all you have to do for who gets what is add/remove users from the group for the drive mapping.

@pmoncho said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@pmoncho said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@pmoncho said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Shrinkflation anyone?

I mean, it's less waste at least.....

True but it is kinda flimsy. Good for oatmeal and soups so far. Haven't tried ice cream yet.

That's dangerous with any plasticware unless it's already half melted.

Had some good spoons for my wedding a few years ago. Those things help up against some hard ice cream and boiling water (cannot remember the brand). Whatever you do, DO NOT buy Amazon Basic plastic ware. They cannot handle the heat of soup. Felt like I was in The Matrix. "“Do not try and bend the spoon,...." I just tilted my head in amazement.

Good to know, most Amazon Basics items I've used have been great. My laptop/overnight Amazon Basics bag specifically is amazong.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1
I inquired about Asterisk... and shot down fast.

Should have asked about VitalPBX or FreePBX, something you can pickup support with. Don't know why, but people like having support available, even tho that's what they are already paying us for!

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Partaking in some MiTel Admin Level Training (in group)

Already deleted 20 disabled accounts from a service we use,... sigh . need better documentation.

MiTel, charging crazy prices for phone lines you don't need! Seriously, their pricing model makes them a joke at best.

Well - It's MiTel now... Likely Cisco in the future.

At least Cisco has features above and beyond most phone systems that can justify the price if needed, at least according to what @JaredBusch has said in the past.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Partaking in some MiTel Admin Level Training (in group)

Already deleted 20 disabled accounts from a service we use,... sigh . need better documentation.

MiTel, charging crazy prices for phone lines you don't need! Seriously, their pricing model makes them a joke at best.

@pmoncho said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@dustinb3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@pmoncho said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Shrinkflation anyone?

I mean, it's less waste at least.....

True but it is kinda flimsy. Good for oatmeal and soups so far. Haven't tried ice cream yet.

That's dangerous with any plasticware unless it's already half melted.

@gjacobse said in Naming discrepancies across Print Servers:

Yes - ServerS

For some reason the Vendor has setup a number of (Azure) servers to address printing. Sadly, it would seem that Printer NAMING is not the same across them.

While I am trying what I am able to do to argue this down to one - OUR PRIMARY - print server; is there any functionally practical way to correct the naming of each printer across the print servers without having to 'match and correct' on each?

FFS, good luck, that place sounds like a cluster

@phlipelder said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@nadnerb said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Over my head?

Mouse mat being used as a door mat.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

no, dont have that either.

Then you're going to have a difficult time keeping anything dry in that basement.... Sorry.

A sump pump will work to drain water that gets to it, but if the water is coming in from all corners and not being directed to a single point (a basin) then you'll likely have issues forever.

I've eliminated low points around the foundation and built them back up to drain away from the house. and moved the downspouts a little higher off the ground to allow more drop to the run off.
All things that I hope will keep water out..

That's a good start, but if you've got a basement, you need a sump pump. If the ground against the foundation is wet, you will have water seeping into the basement. Which is why every house in Ohio has a basin and sump pump. I've changed more pumps than I want to think about.

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

pre stressing about the incoming rain.

basement leaks when there's heavy rain and I've done almost everything I can think of to stop it from coming in .
Hoping that all the work i've done since tuesday pays off. .

Best get that basement pumps handy.

dont have one of those yet.
lol

No sump pump? That's not good.

@dustinb3403 said in Hardware Management Solutions:

What solutions are you guys using to monitor the health of your hardware within different sites, customers etc?

HP has a solution called HP OneView which may do what I want, but I'm not certain.

Do you have any recommendations?

What RMM is in place? Most of them have monitoring built in that you could use.

@stuartjordan said in Hyper V Server - Goodbye:

So No More Hyper-V-Server: https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/31/hyper_v_server_discontinued/

I have been using proxmox and XCP-NG for quite a while now with no issues. Whats your view on this move made by Microsoft. You have support until 2024 on the 2019 edition.

This is sad, but not surprising. You pay per core per month for Azure stack HCI (the replacement) according to what I found quick.

@nashbrydges said in Working Unifi UNVR NGINX Config:

As the title says, I am trying to setup UNVR behind NGINX and wonder if anyone has a working config. I can get the webUI to show up but livestream or video playback is not working. My google-fu is failing me in trying to find which ports need to be part of my config.

I'm just assuming you've already seen Ubiquiti's documentation? https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/217875218-UniFi-Video-Ports-Used

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Debugging undesired script behavior.

sudo rm -rf *.* is always desired behavior.

That should be sudo rm -rf \*. Gotta catch them all!

@irj said in RMM Service:

@travisdh1 said in RMM Service:

@stacksofplates said in RMM Service:

@dustinb3403 said in RMM Service:

@irj said in RMM Service:

@notverypunny said in RMM Service:

I'd like to have more granular permissions options (like allowing users access to workstations but blocked on servers) but it's not a deal-breaker.

You aren't using a segmented network with firewall rules blocking incoming ports like RDP and SSH?

How does segmented networking affect the user permissions within Tactical. I get how it would segment the devices, but that does nothing for the RMM side. IE different teams of people to manage different equipment or resources.

He's saying if you segmented the network you wouldn't need to worry about those controls in the RMM at all.

So long as the clients have a connection to the controller, that's ALL an RMM tool cares about. Doesn't matter how many different networks the clients happen to be on or how well segmented the network is. He'd still need some way to manage who has access to certain groups of client systems.

Yeah I get that and @DustinB3403 and you are correct. As long as you manage assets together you could have this issue.

It's rare that workstations and serves are managed the same way using the same type of monitoring and controls. It's not something I've ever seen in my career, but I also haven't worked on Service Provider or consultant side.

Yeah, from the service provider side of things, servers and workstations are all managed from the same RMM.

@stacksofplates said in RMM Service:

@dustinb3403 said in RMM Service:

@irj said in RMM Service:

@notverypunny said in RMM Service:

I'd like to have more granular permissions options (like allowing users access to workstations but blocked on servers) but it's not a deal-breaker.

You aren't using a segmented network with firewall rules blocking incoming ports like RDP and SSH?

How does segmented networking affect the user permissions within Tactical. I get how it would segment the devices, but that does nothing for the RMM side. IE different teams of people to manage different equipment or resources.

He's saying if you segmented the network you wouldn't need to worry about those controls in the RMM at all.

So long as the clients have a connection to the controller, that's ALL an RMM tool cares about. Doesn't matter how many different networks the clients happen to be on or how well segmented the network is. He'd still need some way to manage who has access to certain groups of client systems.