@Carnival-Boy Mine is a CFIS share on my NAS that is not shared via Windows but by Synology, itself.

I am not running any VMs off of the NAS that I backup to. That would just be stupid.

I do have a file share for my Graphic design team on another NAS (older Synology 1812+) that does have a VMware datastore on it and a single VMDK for data. That VMDK is backed up during the normal Veeam backup to the normal backup repository.

@Carnival-Boy You can run as a VM and Veeam will backup itself/its own VM. I only use local storage too. If you add the NAS in Veeam, you don't need it to be a VMware datastore.

Furthermore, with several (maybe most) Synology models you can expand/add storage via optional enclosures that would be completely transparent to the devices you are presenting the volumes to. So it would not even need the Veeam scale-out feature to allow you to increase storage capacity.

My Veeam server is a VM and I use a Synology 1813+ with 8 4TB Seagate Constellation HDDs in OBR10 as a backup repository. With Veeam 9, you can create the scale-out backup repository that allows you to add several device types and combine them into a single repository. I would not run Veeam on a physical server.

@BBigford It does everything automatically, via GPO, not really one at a time. LAPS prevents each local admin from having the same password. Obviously, if you want everything to be the same then you wouldn't want to use it.

EDIT: You can still use the bat file (mentioned above) if you want to create a specific user with a specific password and assign it to the local admins group. Keep in mind that it is plain text, as was the method you were previously using.

@BBigford Laps won't let you set the password. It assigns random ones that you can access the plain text version of via AD.

I ran into this problem a few months ago, though some time after an upgrade of the AD schema from 47 to 69.

I solved it by using a bat file that runs as a startup script right after an MDT deployment.

net user "My Admin" PasswordGoesHere /add /passwordreq:yes /fullname:"My Admin"
net localgroup Administrators "My Admin" /add

After the new PC is then moved to its final OU, LAPS is installed and a new random password is applied.

@JaredBusch Yeah, I tried that but the signal dropped so much that it didn't make it worth it and it still dropped. LR just isn't a good idea, especially for home use.

@JaredBusch said:

@wrx7m said:

I returned a Unifi AP last week and they refunded me the night I sent it back.

Why on Earth would you return an UAP? Forget to order the UAP-AC-LITE model?

Sort of. The lite were in short supply and I needed an AP overnight, so I got the LR. I don't know if it was defective or just the nature of it being LR, but I had problems with my wifi thermostat and phone losing connection a lot. I gave up on it after 3 weeks.

Have had the lite installed for a week and haven't had a single issue.

@tonyshowoff said:

@wrx7m said:

I hate when vendors gate their pricing.

If they don't tell you how much something costs right away it means it costs too damn much.

That's what I always think.

I hate when vendors gate their pricing.

I returned a Unifi AP last week and they refunded me the night I sent it back.

I like updates for threads that I was asking a question for and maybe older threads that come back to life. For instance, the controversial Owncloud 9 on CentOs 7 thread.

How would you get around the VPN thing to let certain users access documents in the US from China?

We do business in China and have a very small office there. We have 2 Chinese nationals and an American. I was not aware of the VPN legalities so that is interesting.

Anyone?

Mine stopped for a couple of weeks and then last night they started showing up again.

Also, wouldn't this be water cooler, not water closet (US translation- bathroom)?

My beard doesn't grow in very well and it is lightly colored but my skin is so sensitive that I don't ever shave clean. I use a beard trimmer so I always have some stubble but you can't really see it that well.

@dafyre said:

@Jason said:

@travisdh1 said:

They're still bugging me after triple billing me. Hopefully it means the company is 80% gone.

Likely

I still have my Plex server over there... I wonder if my login will even work... gasp It works, lol!

We haven't been using that server for Plex much lately (got a few things to upload to it still). Having a local Plex server is nice for quickly watching stuff and then sending it off-site for archival later.

LOL - I never even considered hosting my plex server offsite lol. I just hibernate my desktop when I don't need it and wake it up when I do.

I like how there is a tag for shoes and it only has one hit LOL