@DustinB3403 said in Setting up an HP DL185 G5:

@Dashrender That is where I was thinking a surveillance system would be a good use. I could use it as a backup repo for my VMs as well with a simple NFS share.

Just needing some things to do with it, maybe something the kid could eventually use. (years from now. . . she's almost 1 already.)

All these things basically go directly to what Scott said - make it a giant storage array.

@JaredBusch said in Email server options:

@Dashrender said in Email server options:

This comparison misses taking it beyond year 5.

Why take it beyond 5 years? Because if it is on premises, it will need to be upgraded again.

@Dashrender said in Email server options:

If you add SA to the original licenses - because you know the plan is the keep using Exchange going forward - it will raise the costs noticeably in the beginning, but come renewal time it will make it significantly less. Less enough to be under O365? not likely, hell, even the 5 year plan would be more expensive for onprem vs O365... but it might lower itself over time because of the SA difference.

SA is a scam to get more money. Always has been for the SMB. With negotiated pricing for Enterprise, it is the right thing.

If you're a company that only upgrades once every 10 years - then yeah... SA is a waste of money, but you're already talking about upgrading again in 5 years, so SA could very much make financial sense - show me the numbers before you poo poo it.

Got it working. I had to set the user to nobody instead of guest. Oddly enough it would mount as guest, but just not be readable.

@scottalanmiller said in Raspberry Pi down?:

Did it finally download?

Yes, I think it might have been because I had my dropbox syncing in full speed as well.

Better Call SAM

@JaredBusch said in Getting Familiar with Sangoma S500 running with FreePBX as back end. . .:

I've given up on EPM for anything complicated with non Sangoma phones.

Same, I don't find it to be valuable for us.

After I finish the damage control or real accounts getting nuked, I am going to test that theory. but I have a 90% hunch.

@Fredtx said in Ethical vs Legal for user mailboxes:

have all emails forwarded to them for a specific user

This is stupid though.

Instead access to the users mailbox can be granted. Gods, who want sot have multiple peoples email all showing up in their inbox..

People are so fucking stupid.

The problem is this:
On the Meraki side, let's say you have 5 (this can be any number greater than 1) firewalls.
In Meraki speak, if all 5 are in the same "organization", S2S is a few clicks & AutoVPN takes over. No pre-shared secret, no keys.
You turn on VPN, say yes to whatever subnets you want in the vpn & save.

On the ER side, I have to create 5 peers to connect to the Meraki side.
Meraki will only expose one connection for a 3rd party S2S & therein lies the problem.
Not all the tunnels connect & there's no good way to fix it.

@Dashrender said in New PBX - on prem or off?:

Damn I just saw a bill from cox.

A single sip phone totally managed by them end to end, $51.00/m

That includes:
The phone
DID
Vmail
Management of the line from the phone all the way to cox.
Calling inside the USA, ie no long distance fees.

Very expected when you buy from an ISP.

Here's another example in Kibana. You can pull the same data out and display in Grafana

business-analytics-reporting.png

@gtech
Thank you !
can you please email me directly to yonah.sapir@pcm.com

@wirestyle22 said in Fail2ban on load balancer:

@IRJ said in Fail2ban on load balancer:

@wirestyle22 said in Fail2ban on load balancer:

@IRJ said in Fail2ban on load balancer:

@wirestyle22 said in Fail2ban on load balancer:

@wrx7m False positives too. If I blocked all Canada traffic as an example, LogMeIn will intermittently not work because they have data centers in Canada. There is essentially no benefit to it and a few, mostly small downsides. It just aids sale because it sounds cool.

That's not what's being talked about here. We are talking about doing in on a load balancer for a specific service. In this case https traffic to a specific application.

I was talking specifically about potential problems with geo-location. I understand what is being discussed

If you do geo-blocking then it becomes part of the process of installing new software and services to add a whitelist of IPs for that service. Any cloud hosting provider has something similar to this.

https://help.logmein.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/Whitelisting-and-LogMeIn

For what real benefit though? That is kind of my point. It's a PITA but also doesn't benefit you really

The point is, it's about politics. The value has nothing to do with IT when it does have value. Any (or essentially any) value comes from unhealthy organizations driven by politics and not by results. Which, as I've said many times, is the average company.

Of course it was still broken today - well, the display portion was at least.

While continuing to work on this, since I could see the Manage box, I decided to try to tab to it, and it worked. I pressed enter with it highlighted and I was able to manage it.

Now my goal was to set it as default, the set as default button was missing. After some searching around, I realized that the "Let Windows manage my default printer" box had become rechecked. After unchecking it, and once again using the tab trick to get into manage the MS Print to PDF feature, I was able to set it as the default printer.

So I've found a work-a-round, but the display issue is still there so I don't consider the issue resolved.

@DustinB3403 said in Ads in Windows 10:

@Curtis said in Ads in Windows 10:

@Dashrender We are having this issue now too. What did you decide to do?

I believe he disabled just the individual source of the notifications. In this case the Chrome notifications from the shady websites.

Yep, that's what I did - disabled the specific website that the user had allowed to notify.

@Pete-S said in Discussing with management switching to VOIP ...:

@Skyetel said in Discussing with management switching to VOIP ...:

@Pete-S said in Discussing with management switching to VOIP ...:

@BraswellJay said in Discussing with management switching to VOIP ...:

No internet - no phones : this is an issue in that we don't have redundancy on our network link, but there has not been any network outage since the fiber was installed at this particular site several years ago. Not sure what I can do on this short of say we could keep a POTS line or two for emergencies but that of course starts to eat into the cost savings some also.

Maybe you can setup a 4G link as redundancy instead. Voip traffic doesn't require that much bandwidth so even if you only get 2 Megabit/s or something it is still plenty.

I would suggest against this - a lot of the 4G carriers do crazy things with NAT that SIP Trunks really really do not like. We run into CGN problems all the time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT. It also can create issues with UDP Fragmentation.

But if you are using a hosted PBX is that really an issue?

You can mitigate it somewhat, but yea, its still an issue. The best way to get around it with a hosted PBX is to use a VPN between the phone and the PBX. That will bypass most of the NAT issues and keep the phones routing the way they should. You can still get dropped calls though.

@FATeknollogee said in Block Spam callers:

@Skyetel Haha, ROFL. Lenny is a star!! This Jerry Jones isn't very bright!

And I'm sure his name is really Jerry Jones. lol

@wirestyle22 said in Quick List of Useful Powershell Commands:

@IRJ said in Quick List of Useful Powershell Commands:

@wirestyle22 said in Quick List of Useful Powershell Commands:

@IRJ Every day is like 12 hours of work in an 8 hour day and that's when I don't have random things thrown at me. I am working on the weekend but it's mostly in Linux. May need to make time

You could probably feel comfortable with it in a week if you used it for everything. It is quite amazing how much you can feel lost with something one day and the next day you 100% get it. This happens alot and learning isn't always linear. There is generally a break through period.

Yeah I just don't have the time. Everything has to be fixed immediately here. There is no room for it unfortunately. I'm going to go through the book @Dashrender and I both purchased called Learn Powershell in a Month of Lunches

You learn stuff one bite at a time. My PowerShell chops are much better after a year at my current gig. And they improved doing one task at a time. Like that cmdlet I posted for finding user names. I did that enough to where I started to understand exactly what I'm telling the cmdlet to do, which leads to learning other cmdlets and such quicker.