Good to know we got a slew of requests for a self-audit back in October, same phone number, all hit our spam filters so we ignored.

@scottalanmiller said in Changing subnet mask?:

@siringo said in Changing subnet mask?:

Inherited an old SBS network which has been upgraded, but is still using the 10.0.0.0 /8 setup.
I was thinking of changing the subnet to /24.

while the old addressing is insane, what's the reason to change? Unless there is a benefit, why? Just reducing the address pool isn't going to buy you anything.

Yes this ^^^ exactly Scott. I'm of the same mind, that's part of why I threw the question out there, I wanted 2nd opinions.

Everything is working fine ATM, why would I want to make an unneccessary change that provided no benefit but could introduce downtime. I susbcribe heavily to the KISS principal, hence my lack of interest in VLANing in this instance.

The only reason I came up with, when thinking about the change is that it may make the environment 'look' more professional by having a more appropriately scoped, network.

Thanks for all the opinions and information it is all greatly appreciated.

Difficult to review working from the phone,.. but interesting-
Not getting line yet though.

@dafyre said in Looking for a good security camera system:

@dave247 said in Looking for a good security camera system:

My company has a super old security camera system from like early 2000's. I'm considering purchasing a new system and installing it myself to save us money. Literally anything we could buy (even from Wal-Mart) would be better than what we have. That said, I still want to try and find a nice solid system that has an intelligent and feature-rich user interface and good functionality. I say that because pretty much all the systems I've seen at other jobs have looked and operated like junk.

Basically I need something that would be HD and allow for 25 or more cameras connected via network cable and have a central server that would be located on-prem in the server room.

Any suggestions for where to start looking?

The other guys here can speak to the cameras themselves.

I've used two pieces of software for handling the recordings and such as of late. The first is Avigilon Control Center (https://www.avigilon.com). It's ok, based on Windows, and licensed per camera.

The second, I use personally to handle motion detection from a single camera at home. ZoneMinder (https://www.zoneminder.com/) is Free / Open Source

Cool thanks, I'll take a look at these 🙂

@black3dynamite said in Managing Publicly hosted Linux Servers through Cockpit:

@stuartjordan said in Managing Publicly hosted Linux Servers through Cockpit:

Cockpit looks nice and all that, but the version I tried didn't seem to have as many features or as much control like webmin does.

Tried Cockpit on Ubuntu? If so, you probably been using a old version because the only distro that I know that always has the latest version is Fedora.

Yep I'm a Debian/Ubuntu guy. I could probably add the repository for the latest version to try out if it does have more features. I'm normally straight up do everything through cli but wanted to try it out. then I tried webmin out which I haven't touched in over 8 years. They have defiantly improve things on their panel.

@laksh1999

How to create an attachment in this ?
anyone used builder kit in slack ?

$Webhook = "https://hooks.slack.com/workflows" $ContentType= 'application/json' $Body = @" { "text": "Update your Status + :sunglasses: + $(Get-Date -format g)", } "@ Invoke-RestMethod -uri $Webhook -Method Post -body $Body -ContentType $ContentType

@travisdh1 said in Build or Buy?:

@hobbit666 said in Build or Buy?:

What would suggest today for a gaming PC?
Budget is £700 for just the box. Also any recommendations on specs, daughter wants to play Minecraft, Sub Nautica, Fortnite.
(But i want to be able to play Counter Strike, Modern Warefare (not fussed running at Ultra detail settings) 🙂 )

The only way to easily get any sort of graphics card right now is to buy a pre-built. I haven't even looked at prices in months because the market is so crazy right now.

Yup, getting the GPU is tough and pre-built is typically the only way to get the value.

The "real" solution is to convert into SDI, which is the professional version of HDMI. Think TV station, broadcast cameras and other professional gear.

It uses coax so it's easy to install and put on connectors for whatever length you need. It can handle up to 300ft without any signal degradation. And there are converters for HDMI to SDI and back.

So if the application involves something related to live streaming, video recordings etc you might want to look into SDI. If you're just putting a TV somewhere far away, well then it doesn't matter.

An example of SDI - Canon C300 camera:
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@stuartjordan said in Once off or short term remote access solution:

@jaredbusch Do you have to install the remote plugin and login with your gmail account to access the machine though?

I have ConnectWise installed for me.

@nadnerb said in Outlook 365 display issues:

Got a link?

only in the admin center as far as I know.
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And the issue was much more than "viewing" it fucked up composing also.

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@jaredbusch said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

@jaredbusch said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

@dashrender said in Vultr performance issues in Chicago:

yeah, in my case that's not working much, because most calls are getting to the PBX, but there is a ton of dead air and dropped calls.

Yes, that is the issue with intermittent connectivity. usually up enough for the trunks not to be failed.

For me it was < 30 minutes for any one customer to be having issues.

Things seem to have normalized, but Vultr still has the issue open.

And Chicago is marked cleared now.

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I didn't see what it said before seeing the "resolved issues" at the top...

@siringo have you seen Open-Audit?

@notverypunny said in XenCenter to XCP-NG Upgrade using Bash:

Hey @Pete-S, Have you run across anything missing in doing upgrades? Honestly wondering 'cause we've got a substantial fleet of older machines that we use with xenserver. Haven't hit any situations where it falls apart, just that some of the older processors are no longer supported. Things still work OK, it's just not a supported config from Citrix anymore since the older gear isn't on the HCL for the newer release.

No, we haven't upgraded servers using 6.x. But we've had issues on 7.x that I'm sure must have worked fine on 6.x. Both on the hardware side and on the software side.

If you run very plain hardware with a plain installation of xencenter, using recent guest OSs, I don't expect much problems with an upgrade from 6.x. I think most installations in SMB installations fall in this category.

But on older systems it's also likely you'll find a surprise such as a VM running Windows 2003 server or something like that. Things like that might get you into trouble.

@scottalanmiller said in ESXi VMware ESXTOP:

@stacksofplates said in ESXi VMware ESXTOP:

Does the esxi shell have awk?

No idea

According to this it does:
https://deepakkanda.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/shell-commands-in-vsphere-esxi/

@anna
A bit old I know, but zerotier will allow you to access behind doublenat using local ip address

https://www.zerotier.com/

@laksh1999 This will be 100% dependent on the email system in question. There's no "email interface" generically that can find orphaned accounts.

@jt1001001 said in Network Printer keeps re-adding itself:

@mr-jones Xerox has a feature called WSD that allows for Windows to discover printers, sometimes automatically. Try disabling WSD on the xerox to see if that alleviates the issue (we disable it on all ours)

I had to double check, but it's turned off on all.

@ambarishrh said in PDQ Link:

@jaredbusch said in PDQ Link:

@Ambarishrh said in PDQ Link:

The only catch I could see is the mandatory port 443 as per their site

The majority of work for Link is done with our installer, but there is one bit that will have to be done by you or your network team. Your external firewall will need to route incoming TCP 443 to your PDQ Link server. 443 is the only port SSTP can utilize. This configuration is mandatory to allow your external clients to connect.

If you already have another service on 443 with a public IP, we need to use an additional IP for PDQ link.

That is what inbound proxy servers are for.

digging an older topic as I am testing this now. Regarding inbound proxy
, what would you suggest to be used?

This isn't that simple, you need a proxy that supports TCP streams, unless SSTP behaves just like HTTPS. You'd need to talk to PDQ support to get more details. If you do end up needing TCP streams, I think Nginx, Traefik, and Haproxy all support that, and there's a mod for Apache too, but if I recall it correctly, it was specifically for MSRPC, so Exchange OWA or RDS.

@dbeato said in Exchange Mailbox Database Migration - Single Host - Indexing Time estimate:

@dustinb3403 About 1 to 4 days.

That's what I was thinking, thanks!