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Got a chuckle out of this email this morning from Lenovo.

Subject: Is your company's data secure?

Answer: Yes, because we don't use Lenovo

Standing in Wal-Mart watching this Windows 10 Lenovo laptop on display which is stuck in a blue screen boot loop

Having just done an IP scheme change a month or so ago, I'm A DHCP Reservations believer. Made the process so simple.

@JaredBusch said in Skyetel auto enables billable services without notice:

@scottalanmiller said in Skyetel is a scam:

Well, more like hiding the fact that is clearly isn't a scam and you made a false statement.

I made a statement that was factual based on all the information I had at the time. I in no way made an intentionally false statement.

Oh are we allowed to do that? Jump to a (radical) conclusion prematurely and then defend it by "I didn't have all the facts"?

@IRJ said in Skyetel auto enables billable services without notice:

Can we please just nuke this whole thread? All the feedback was already taken into consideration. It's really not becoming a good look for anyone.

If anything, I think it's been a good look on Skyetel and an example of their customer service. Granted, it's out in the open and therefore have incentive to do better, but I think they've handled the bashing well and taken appropriate steps to satisfy the needy.

@pmoncho said in Email server options:

@Dashrender said in Email server options:

@scottalanmiller said in Email server options:

@Dashrender said in Email server options:

Now fine, you said you have some existing hardware that you can use for it, but will be replacing it in a year or two - that cost should definitely be added in.

Should factor, for sure. But it is often super cheap. Zimbra or MailCow use very few resources compared to something like Exchange. The per user cost gets super low in most cases. If you want a top end cost, price it out on Vultr, Digital Ocean, or Linode and see what it would cost that way. It'll be "low". And running it on your own will always be way less. So its super conservative.

Interesting. My issue on my VM platform is storage - I don't have a 500 GB+ left over to offer all 100 of my users 5+ GB

I wish I could get my 5+ GB users to understand how useless their email hoarding is. Half the emails they keep for 8+ years are irrelevant to anything today.

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

I know y'all are concerned... Snapchat just went down.

Lol, it was in and out but not much

My baby girl just turned 18 months. It indeed goes by quickly. You lose a lot of personal time, but they're worth it. Just gotta get creative with your time.

They all have basic Azure AD functionality and features, but the premium stuff doesn't come standard on any Office 365 plan I don't believe. It's a separate add-on. The Microsoft 365 plans include it to various levels I believe and you can get it with bundles like EM+S and such.

What are the deals you're looking to take advantage of this holiday season? I know in years past, some more unknown VPS providers have offered some good deals. What are you looking at?

My wife's birthday is today so I'll be getting her a new iPhone through Wal-Mart's deals on Thursday night. $400 gift card when purchasing iPhone 8, 8+, or X with qualified activation. $300 gift card with purchasing iPhone XR, XS, or XS Max with activation.

My god dude move on. The level of bitching is just crazy. You've spoken your frustrations, so move on and don't worry about them anymore.

@travisdh1 said in Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deals 2018:

I'll probably grab an SSD for my parents computer, but just not on black Friday. I'll be trying to avoid the crowds, not join them.

Newegg running some pretty good deals on the Samsung SSD's.

860 EVO 500GB ($72.99) 1TB ($127.98)

And yes definitely not going to be at any stores at 4am fighting lines. Mostly looking for online deals where available.

@zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Trying to convince the sales man to go with Unifi AP's instead of the Cisco Meraki MR33 for another new software they have added to our list.

Speaking of which, should be receiving my new Unifi nanoHD's today to replace the old AP LR (non-AC).

Well well, look who just arrived...

Giving Fedora 30 Deepin environment a spin...

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

not a fan of the start menu changes... but it's still faster than before.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Notice the left most part of the bar is gone as soon as you start searching for something.

That is Cortana/Search, not the start menu.

It's not, Cortana has been removed from the integration of search starting with 1903. Originally, this build had a separate Cortana icon next to the search box.

to get what I showed in my picture, I clicked on the start button, then started typing, just like i have been doing with Windows 10 since day one.

That is not and never has been the Start menu. it is a Search window. Cortana integration or not is not relevant.

https://media.giphy.com/media/6xgslyYQCyLa8/giphy.gif

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/18/short-seller-andrew-left-calls-ubiquiti-his-next-big-fraud.html

http://www.citronresearch.com/citron-exposes-ubiquiti-networks/

To be clear, this isn't about their products being bad, just that some apparently are finding it hard to believe the numbers. I'm still working through link 2 at the moment, but wanted to see what others thought as well.

@bnrstnr said in iOS 11 annoyances:

@nadnerb said in iOS 11 annoyances:

I find the WiFi and Bluetooth not turning off from the control panel (just disconnecting) irritating.

I have nothing that I want connected in the background AFTER I turn the $radio off.

I love this feature. If my home internet is slow I can disconnect with the push of a button, then when I get to work it automatically connects to the wifi there. I don't have to try to remember to turn it back on, it just connects.

I guess if you have a more advanced configuration, like VPN or something, this might be a nuisance. How hard would it really be for them to just give us the option of what the button does though?

They should make it a toggle button. Tap once = disconnect. Tap again = Turn off. Tap again = Turn on.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@zachary715 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Dealing with this...
https://github.com/OfficeDev/O365-InvestigationTooling/blob/master/RemediateBreachedAccount.ps1

Yeah we went through this a couple months back. Office 365 tools to help detect/prevent these types of things aren't strong unless you're willing to pay for Azure AD Premium. Thankfully minimal damage done.

Did you enable MFA after that on the accounts?

We looked into MFA before this ever happened, but it doesn't seem to work well since we have Office 365 through GoDaddy. The authentication seems to run through GoDaddy first so it makes it act fairly wonky. I'm now testing a "pure" Office 365 account and going to enable MFA there to confirm my suspicions that GoDaddy is where my issues lie.

Oh okay, this account is fully Office 365.

Yeah we ended up creating some new rules as a result and learned a whole lot about all the different Office 365 relevant portals to capture logs, etc that we weren't fully aware of prior. It's really quite scattered at the moment and the ability to setup alerting is pretty weak, especially on the Azure side. Now we're having to manually check the "Users Flagged for Risk" and "Risky Sign Ins" weekly to help identify any fishy (phishy?) business.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/17125/korora-bites-the-dust

@dashrender said in Hiding files/folder shares from users:

@black3dynamite said in Hiding files/folder shares from users:

@dashrender said in Hiding files/folder shares from users:

@black3dynamite said in Hiding files/folder shares from users:

Also take a look at your NTFS permissions.

I thought ABE was based on NTFS permissions?

I believe its only for shares.

I think you are correct, but the share permissions is for the entire drive mapping/UNC usage. The NTFS permissions are what actually determine the ABE settings and what the user sees.

This is correct. Share permissions are generally Everyone and NTFS are fine-tuned based on who needs what access. We set this up a couple of years ago and it has been very convenient for our users.