@notverypunny Yeah, monitoring first. Where is the bottleneck? Is it CPU, IOPS, RAM, network, all of the above? Which servers are overloaded? Is it one or multiple RDS servers or the file server?

@scottalanmiller might know more about it. He recently mentioned it.

@jt1001001 said in ISP Failover with Cisco ASA:

Use Peplink: https://www.peplink.com/products/balance/
Prior to others getting involved, we used a balance 380 in front of our ASA to provide WAN (Internet in our case) redundancy/failover. It did NOT require us to change external IP addresses and worked rather flawlessly. You could also use it to actually replace the ASA if said Crapco product is due for replacement.

I have always wanted to deploy peplink. I just can't get a decent and affordable backup WAN link at my location. We only got dedicated fiber here about 2 years ago.

@scottalanmiller said in ISP Failover with Cisco ASA:

A Ubiquiti will replace an ASA as well. For just failover, it works just fine. Both EdgeRouter and Unifi USG lines will do that.

For the savings, you could get 2 (and then some) and have redundancy there, as well.

Wouldn't you just need to use BGP?
https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security/asa-5500-x-series-next-generation-firewalls/118050-config-bgp-00.html

@Danp said in Virtual Monitor software:

I've used DisplayFusion in the past for managing multiple monitors. I just checked and it does have the ability to split a monitor into virtual monitors --
https://www.displayfusion.com/Features/MonitorConfig/

Looks interesting

Managing these licenses and their bizarre limitations, caveats, etc. is even greater still. 2 audits and 1 they are trying to get me to do, (but have ignored so far) are also not included in most people's cost projections.

@Obsolesce said in Windows Services not restarting:

@WLS-ITGuy said in Windows Services not restarting:

Anyone else having issues with services not restarting after a server reboot?

On 3 separate servers now, a bunch of services that are indeed important for that server haven't restarted. Looking at logs and nothing jumps out. Just curious if this is happening anywhere else?

This has been going on for quite some time on Windows servers as far as I can tell.

If the services aren't restarting, you aren't rebooting. Try pulling the plug.

I think he means that the services are not starting automatically after a reboot.

This is the only known issue with this update. Seems like you wouldn't want this to happen either lol

Slack announces deeper integration with Office 365.
The messaging service is getting a new Outlook calendar and mail app, an updated OneDrive app and users will now be able to preview Office files directly within Slack.
https://www.techradar.com/news/slack-joins-forces-with-microsoft-office-365

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

@wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

@wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

Adding swapping out RAM to the list. Haven't gotten any word back as to whether or not it has fixed it. Just found out that the user will be in China for a week and a half, so I won't really be able to try much.

That'll slow things down.

Swapping RAM or him being out of the country?

Being out of hte country.

OK lol. I thought that is what you meant.

@scottalanmiller said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

@wrx7m said in Excel - Portion of Sheets Blocked Out/ All Gray:

Adding swapping out RAM to the list. Haven't gotten any word back as to whether or not it has fixed it. Just found out that the user will be in China for a week and a half, so I won't really be able to try much.

That'll slow things down.

Swapping RAM or him being out of the country?

Adding swapping out RAM to the list. Haven't gotten any word back as to whether or not it has fixed it. Just found out that the user will be in China for a week and a half, so I won't really be able to try much.

@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@wrx7m said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.

Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero

Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.

Is this only for Google's own phones? I searched play for google call screening but didn't see anything from them.

I've never seen it. I have a Samsung.

Same here.

@JaredBusch said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.

Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero

Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.

Not on your life.

You realize how those work right?

How do they work?

@dafyre said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@scottalanmiller said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

@mlnews said in The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed:

Years into the robocalling frenzy, your phone probably still rings off the hook with "important information about your account," updates from the "Chinese embassy," and every bogus sweepstakes offer imaginable.

Not if you have an IVR that makes you hit a button to get through. My robo calls are zero

Or a call screening app. Google's Call Screening on my Pixel has cut the number of calls I get in half.

Is this only for Google's own phones? I searched play for google call screening but didn't see anything from them.

I have 1 Dell Latitude 7490 with Windows 10 (8th gen i5 with 32GB of RAM) and a chronic (and random) issue where Excel 64-bit's sheets don't display the entire contents of the sheet. It just leaves a gray blob after a certain point. This has been going on for several months now, across several updates/versions of Office and drivers. In the sheet below, it was in protected mode. As soon as I hit enable editing, it redrew the sheet and it seems fine. I have also had other issues on this system where all Excel windows turn blank gray.

I have done the following:

• updated display drivers
• updated BIOS
• updated Office
• updated Windows
• disabled hardware acceleration in Excel
• disabled comm add-ins in Excel
• uninstalled/reinstalled Office
• run hardware diagnostics (pre-os)
• RE-IMAGED the laptop (MDT/WDS)

Is there any way to fix this?

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Yeah, the annoying part is

Luckily they show on our supplier website
The Dell X1052p £600

I never used the X-Series, but whatever the series was right before it seemed like it was solid.

It was PowerConnect which were solid and still some running for me.

Yeah, I still have 2 running. There is a location that some cables were run long before my time that has a powerconnect 5548P and it is uplinked to another one in the server room. I have 5 drops left to replace, before I can get rid of both.

Edit- My main switches are Extreme XG450 G2 Summit switches, configured in a stack.

Dealing with this shitty Chinese software that "interacts" with Amazon. It doesn't work because it won't update from the server (throwing 403 error). Everything is in Chinese and support is only available during Chinese day time and in Chinese only. Their own support can't fix it and now this marketing person wants me to uninstall and reinstall it.

You can't even run it without running as admin, so I had to create a Microsoft application compatibility exception just to get it to run in a regular user's account. Also, you have to switch the entire OS to Chinese to get it to accept the serial number.

I don't trust this thing so much that I have a non-domain joined system that is connected to our guest wifi network.

Waste of time/money.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That's promising then. Maybe in 5 years we'll have version 6 on everything where I work . It is telling that it took 6 versions to get that functionality.

And how many decades to get PowerShell in the first place

Well, it is called "Windows".