You could even maintain your own backup DC using the replication feature of Veeam.
https://www.veeam.com/vm-advanced-replication.html

@Pete-S If the N are like the powerconnect line, you might even be able to do this in the web UI. If you are more into that. Obviously, it is much faster to change lots of ports at once in the CLI.

Another good thing with Veeam is that you have an option to restore your backups to AWS EC2 or Azure. I haven't done this yet, but I am pretty sure that it does not require the cloud connect option for that.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/restore_azure.html?ver=95u4
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/restore_amazon.html?ver=95u4

@dave247 said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:

@PhlipElder said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:

@scottalanmiller said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:

@PhlipElder said in Any good DRaaS suggestions?:

A quick "hack" way to do it would be to sync a copy of the SP files to a repository and have that repository hooked into BackBlaze. They would then be sync'd up to BB. Cost wise, it would be cheap, cheap, cheap.

That's good for the backup portion. But for full DR you have to handle the recovery, hosting, networking failover and those parts. That's where "putting it all together" comes in.

SPX supports instant-on via file convert to VHDX/VMDK. Having those files sent to a DR site that is set up to fire the VMs up on short order would work well.

And on the StorageCraft side of things, we've been a partner since the v3.x days. Their product was second to none for the longest time. We pulled off some spectacular recoveries because the product was just that good. It still is to some degree, it is just that managing in-guest backups for more than six or eight VMs gets to be a bear after a while. Dedupe and Compression in Veeam has saved us gobs of storage.

As far as StorageCraft goes, it became noticeable that things were going awry when their Partner mailers were promoting third party webinars and "grow your MSP" type stuff. In the v3.x, v4.x, and v5.x days the product was king with in-person training being awesome and costly but worth it.

The fact that Veeam secured $500M in investments recently points to where all the action is today. All backup vendors whose products don't work well, and believe me there are a lot of them which is really sad, are put on notice and I, IMNSHO, am very happy about that.

Thanks for the input. I am still strongly considering Veeam as an option.

I have been using Veeam for several years now. I don't use this feature, but definitely check out the Cloud Connect option. It transfers the management of a set of your backups to an off-site partner.
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/cloud/cloud_overview.html?ver=95u4

You should be able to set the untagged and tagged VLANs to whatever VLANs you want on whatever port you want. Unless, it is a management port, then sometimes, they won't let you change that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/11/pagerduty-pops-more-than-50percent-in-debut-as-tech-ipo-market-heats-up.html
Looks like Pager Duty did well with the IPO. Seems like it was pretty under-valued for the IPO, though.

Update-

So far, I have 2 vultr instances running squid. I used a snapshot of the first, to deploy the second. I have setup postfix for notifications by fail2ban and dnf-automatic. I also setup the firewall and squid settings to only allow connections from our WAN IP range and set the proxy to only allow access to certain domains that were specific to this project. I mostly have the servers ready to go.

I tried a Chrome extension called sessionbox. They have a paid version that allows you to run multiple proxy servers in different sessions with color coded tabs. Unfortunately, it is pretty complex (too complex for most of my users) and I can't find a way to push out settings or do bulk changes. That means I am circling back to what JB suggested, by launching chrome with incognito and proxy options.

%pathtochrome%\chrome.exe --incognito --proxy-server="http://proxy01.domain.local:3128" --user-data-dir="%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\ChromeProxy01\User Data

I have tested this by running it in a cmd prompt. These will need to be launched separately, so users can keep track of which window they opened for which login they should be using. Otherwise, it defeats the purpose.

Is the only way to run this by using a bat file? I can't seem to get it going by just using a simple shortcut to Chrome.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@wrx7m said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change

YouTube TV raises price from $40 to $50 for new and existing customers.
YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive.

A move away from what people who want to cut the cord (or already have) want. I don't want predetermined bundles that some random execs constructed. I want a la carte, with the ability to get a discount when creating my own bundles. Sort of like tiered volume licensing; 10 is 3% off, 20 is 7% off, etc.

My thoughts exactly. Adding the "cord back in."

Thankfully you can "opt out" of the whole thing

True. It just sucks for the people that are already users.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change

YouTube TV raises price from $40 to $50 for new and existing customers.
YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive.

A move away from what people who want to cut the cord (or already have) want. I don't want predetermined bundles that some random execs constructed. I want a la carte, with the ability to get a discount when creating my own bundles. Sort of like tiered volume licensing; 10 is 3% off, 20 is 7% off, etc.

@scottalanmiller said in DNS - am I taking crazy pills?:

@frodooftheshire said in DNS - am I taking crazy pills?:

I feel like in the past with other hosting companies I've just been able to edit the DNS records even if they weren't the registrar? I feel like this is the first time this has happened.

Well this is just silly. Why the heck is the DNS with NS anyway? And especially if they don't do what is needed? Just fix that, right now. Move the DNS to CloudFlare, problem solved.

As @scottalanmiller says, move to CloudFlare and don't worry about the rest. It is only a waste of time.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsofts-april-2019-updates-are-causing-windows-to-freeze/

Looks like it isn't just Sophos.

We are looking at deploying a couple of large 55-65 inch digital signage displays in different areas. One will be in our e-commerce department displaying a custom web page dashboard. I hope to also get one for my office that I can use to display a web page dashboard. We would also be looking to put one in the lobby with some brand-related images/video I have looked at Philips and Samsung. Recommendations on display hardware would be appreciated.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr be nice to have sflow on the switch

Checkout Extreme's Summit switches. They support sflow.

@black3dynamite said in How to configure automatic updates on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

@IRJ said in How to configure automatic updates on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

@black3dynamite said in How to configure automatic updates on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

Thank you for the how-to.
I am too spoiled on how to configure auto updates for Fedora and CentOS.

yeah this is actually easier than fedora imo

I don't know about that. I've done so many setups now that I script it.

# Install dnf-automatic
sudo dnf -y install dnf-automatic

[email protected]
[email protected]
EMAILHOST=smtp.domain.com
sudo sed -i "s|^email_to = root|email_to = ${EMAILTO}|" /etc/dnf/automatic.conf
sudo sed -i 's|^apply_updates = no|apply_updates = yes|' /etc/dnf/automatic.conf
sudo sed -i 's|^emit_via = stdio|emit_via = email|' /etc/dnf/automatic.conf
sudo sed -i "s|^email_from = [email protected]|email_from = ${EMAILFROM}|" /etc/dnf/automatic.conf
# Enable and Start dnf-automatic.timer
sudo systemctl enable --now dnf-automatic.timer

stealing this

@WLS-ITGuy said in Windows Services not restarting:

@wrx7m said in Windows Services not restarting:

@WLS-ITGuy - It had to do with SQL not liking earlier versions of TLS or SSL being disabled.

Did it matter on OS? These are 2016 servers that services aren't firing up on.

It may. This was server 2012 R2. SQL server express, either 2012 or 2014.

@WLS-ITGuy - It had to do with SQL not liking earlier versions of TLS or SSL being disabled.

@WLS-ITGuy said in Windows Services not restarting:

Veeam is one of them. our print audit software is another. Anything that seems to be attached to a SQL instance seems to not want to start up after a reboot.

I had this issue after upgrading Veeam to update 4 and its SQL services. Let me check my notes to see if I can recall what the cause was.

@black3dynamite said in How to configure automatic updates on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

Thank you for the how-to.
I am too spoiled on how to configure auto updates for Fedora and CentOS.

I just did this for Fedora 29 and am going to do it on my CentOS 7 server when I get a minute.

@IRJ Yay! Someone else that uses Nano.

@dbeato said in Windows update and Sophos:

Update on this

KB Article Updated
https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/133945

Finally, it isn't webroot that is causing a problem. Has sophos released anything about this?