• I bypassed my jobs security restrictions...

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    @ls_tech said in I bypassed my jobs security restrictions...:

    Funny thing i accually tried to use the situation to send to the IT department and see if they could get me a job over, turns out only SUP can talk with IT departments and the emails i tried to send off too are old. i was excited to use it in a positive way. Yeah ill just learn at the job and not take a risk of termination by telling/

    From what you said elsewhere, IT may be all offshore which would imply that, unless you want to take a paycut and move to the Pacific Ocean, there's no IT option for you. When a company of any size outsourcings and/or offshores a department, that will normally cut off any path you have at joining that department from the US, at least not as a very senior resource.

    We face a similar problem. We aren't in Asia, but are in LATAM. If you were working for me in the US, and this chain of events unfolded, and IT was your dream, and we were impressed with your work.... you'd still face a "so, you want to move to LATAM?" question before you could consider a position on our IT team.

    Sadly, it's most likely, if this is how your company is, that it likely doesn't present a path into IT for you in you are in the US. But that's okay, it's a great job for studying IT and learning and getting ready for that IT job somewhere else.

    Also, I highly recommend less time on the A+. Read the book, learn the material, but do it quickly and skip the exam. Go right to the Network+. Any job that cares about the A+ isn't a real or good IT job and will just hold you back long term. A+ is an exam for bench, not IT. Loads of crappy IT shops expect it, but is a crappy shop what you want? Probably not. Go for the IT exam instead and move directly into an IT job. Slightly harder to get your foot in the first door, but a much faster ladder to climb.

  • SCCM: Configuration Manager Properties; Run all actions

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    @gjacobse said in SCCM: Configuration Manager Properties; Run all actions:

    We have noticed that unless you run all actions in SCCM:CM on the PC, it doesn’t update correctly.

    While I can go to CMP in Control Paul and select/run each is there a way to run this from the CLI?

    Asking as I am also searching,..

    Yes- there is, in PS.

    Found on poweshellbros.com. Update later when I can

  • Having trouble with BitLocker To Go on USB drives in Windows 10

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    Recently, I have come across this same issue. I have it posted in spiceworks forum asking for a resolution. The only thing I have found is to do a system restore back prior to the Oct20 windows debacle and then regedit the pc to NOT take windows updates, which is a bad thing in itself. So, my question is why can't we just go back to win7? LOLOL

  • Let's Convince Someone to release a FOSS PBX

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    @bigbear This is still a good idea. How is it going now?

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    Did you stop all the Exchange services as well?

  • Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?

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    @Pete-S said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

    @JaredBusch said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

    @Pete-S said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

    @Dashrender said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

    @Pete-S said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

    We've recently started using Zoho Workdrive and I think it works about the same as every other cloud storage that can sync folders and files.

    I'm wondering what happens if a client for any reason doesn't sync the data to the cloud anymore. Is there a way for admins to detect that, for instance in OneDrive?

    On the client side there definitely is, not sure if there is on the server side.

    I was thinking server-side. So if you have hundreds of users you could be certain that all of them are actually syncing their data (on a regular basis) and not just working on local files without sync.

    Yes, O365 has reporting for that.
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/activity-reports/onedrive-for-business-usage?view=o365-worldwide
    The server has to know when user have connected or not.

    No idea for ZoHo.

    Thanks, activity report makes sense! I guess if someone has no activity that could be an indication that something might be wrong.

    Zoho Workdrive has that as well. https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/workdrive/admin-console/activity-report/articles/activity-report

    The O365 activity is based on file changes. not just "connected"

  • M.2: Initialize Drive

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    @dbeato said in M.2: Initialize Drive:

    @gjacobse At this point if data is important you should use a data recovery company to see if they can get the drive and then you can decrypt it.
    https://drivesaversdatarecovery.com/

    Yup-
    State device no my problem anymore.

  • FreePBX vs 3CX 2021 Edition

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    @jt1001001 said in FreePBX vs 3CX 2021 Edition:

    @gjacobse you will probably be stuck with Avaya or maybe Shoretel/Mitel if the fed is involved

    Jeez, I'd hope they would at least go RingCentral.

  • Duplicati - How to exclude based on date (filtering)

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    Well now it's mutal.

  • Hyper-V Failover Clustering

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    You can have replication if you have Starwind Clustering on the hosts (That's how I have some customers). That said, even on those situations I have a DC on the Local Host Hyperv of one of the servers or have a Site to Site VPN with a DC on Azure or AWS as a failsafe.

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  • Hello IT Community!

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    @Pete-S said in Hello IT Community!:

    They don't manage or operate anything, they design different aspects of the car.

    Well, in the race car analogy, lol, yes. But in IT they don't.

    Software Engineer: Writes the code that runs on a router or switch.
    Hardware Engineer: Designs the chips and motherboards of the router or switch.
    Network Engineer: Determines which routers or switches to buy, how many, and how to initially configure/deploy them.
    Network Admin: Maintains and adjusts routers and switches that are already in use.

    The first two roles are software engineer and electrical engineer. They make products that you can sell and buy and neither would ever consider themselves IT in any way, and as IT we should naturally feel that they are very different.

    The second two roles are IT. They don't make products, the configure and manage the products. The first two roles sit on the "Vendor side" of things . The second two sit on the customer side. The IT jobs are all about "using whatever products are right for our network and business needs", that's where they become IT.

  • Router placement with PTP Unifi network

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    @frodooftheshire said in Router placement with PTP Unifi network:

    At the new office I have their new router in the rack and now I'm trying to decide if it should stay there or be placed at the original office where the Comcast circuit will reside.

    Second site doesn't have any need for a firewall, do they? They don't have a WAN link.

  • Asterisk/Elastix setup in AWS

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    @AlyRagab said in Asterisk/Elastix setup in AWS:

    Actually it is a POC level of environment. I am convinced already that Asterisk "As a legacy app" is so difficult to make it cloud native kind of application.
    For me i am away from the VoIP field since more than 4 years now, so is there any other complete solution that can be scaled and hosted in AWS ?.

    You are getting things backwards. You should be responding with "oh, AWS and cloud are the wrong approaches for VoIP". It feels like you are driving with a solution and trying to find a goal. Cart before the horse. A POC of a fundamentally bad idea is still a bad idea and a waste of resources.

    Is the idea of scaling VoIP interesting? Sure. Can you produce a use case for it? Maybe. But it'll be a stretch.

    Does anyone make a complete solution? I doubt it. There's no market for it. The only places that could make use of it are enormous players who would make their own solution (e.g. Twilio) in order to do something unique. If you are the kind of shop that needs this, you can't really use someone else's product. If you need to do someone else's product, we can safely assume it's the wrong product for you.

  • Proxmox pricing

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    @JaredBusch said in Proxmox pricing:

    @stacksofplates said in Proxmox pricing:

    but users on your LAN need a link or some way of knowing it exists

    Users of the things running on it do not.

    If they're interacting with the hypervisor. Not like windows users. But anyone using the hypervisor would. Should have been a little clearer.

  • Reconsidering ProxMox

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  • Proxmox Cluster join unclear

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    It definitely seems joined. I cannot even do anything form the IP of the second instance now.
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    But it is all enabled from the primary.
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  • Log & Alerts Management

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    @coliver said in Log & Alerts Management:

    Graylog would be the solution for that.

    Recognise that name will have to look into that again

  • VULTR NJ location: Partial Power failure.

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    @scottalanmiller said in VULTR NJ location: Partial Power failure.:

    But how did you determine that? I just looked at my servers and their specs only match server class Xeon processors (Skylake 16MB L3) so not sure how it is possible for them to be consumer.

    I don't remember exactly. A couple of years ago you could determine that there was actually no xeon of that architecture that would fit with the GHz. Since they are obscuring the actual CPU in their linux kernel you can't read the model number outright. I going from memory here, but that was the gist of it.

  • User Account getting disabled in Azure

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    @Dashrender said in User Account getting disabled in Azure:

    o curious, if Azure is showing it as disabled - why is that not be

    Azure Sync doesn't sync back to AD. it is the other way around.