it's a shame the Original owners of Screenconnect sold themselves out, but these buyouts normally end up making the product twice as expensive without any decent further development.

Have you ever played practical computer jokes on your fellow IT colleagues?

A favourite of mine was to screenshot the background and set this as the background picture and then remove all icons on desktop, watching them getting frustrated with their constant double clicking of icons was quite amusing.

Another one was putting the shutdown command on their browser icon....

Of course these jokes were only for fellow IT colleagues and not users obviously.....

I'm now using XCP-NG, have no issues with whoever uses what for their hypervisor.. this is a more viable solution then KVM in my eyes.

@Ylian that's brilliant, your working so hard on this, thank you for all your hard work.

@Pete-S I've been a fan of the GUI when using xencenter in the past. I believe personally it's an outdated way to manage a hypervisor these days, especially with web based management, which is obviously not platform dependent.

@NashBrydges said in Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect:

Realize this thread was comparing to SC but wondering how would this compare to Apache Guacamole? I haven't yet had time to try to set this up but thought I'd ask.

Guacamole is more a perimeter gateway interface for accessing machines inside of the LAN.
Meshcentral has client agents that you can install on machines and can access these machines across WAN. it's very much more like an RMM product.

@openit said in Needs suggestion on email server/ control panel for Ubuntu to run erp, web n emails.:

@scottalanmiller @StuartJordan
Nice.
Do you people have any other suggestions, while running servers on cloud for the first time? might be about security or something else?

You treat the security the same for any public server, being cloud makes no difference. If you not sure on how to implement server hardening I would get a managed service.

@IRJ I've moved Wordpress to different servers quite a few times.

1. I normally deactivate any wordpress plugins first.
2. I export the sql to a file.
3. I copy all wordpress files from the Public_html Directory to a tar or zip.
4. I then create a new database and database user on new host.
5. I edit the WP-Config.php file and change to reflect the new database details.
6. I then import the sql to the new database using phpmyadmin.
7. Upload the compressed file and extract on new host into the Public_html folder.
8. activate the plugins again.

(You don't have to change the database details, you could create the same, but why the hell not change the password while your at it)

the only bonus, you do get tab completion is powershell...mainly because you need it for the long ass commands lol

I have been running Mailcow for a little while, been testing and playing about with it. I'm quite impressed how it's all been put together. I would love to hear how many mailboxes people are running this in production.

Not using a reverse proxy on mine though.

I've always had a passion for working in IT and I feel my love is changing towards how things are changing, especially with Microsoft. It's not azure or cloud services that I feel unhappy with, it's windows itself. I don't even like using it, I just find a lot of things about it annoying, even the amount of times I want to leave an application for it to be closed down, after an update that happend at 3am or trying to scroll that shitty start menu...in the past when vista or Windows Me were launched we was able to stay on the previous OS and Microsoft soon launched a better replacement causing us to eventually move on. With windows as a service, it's all pushed to how Microsoft wants you to use your computer now. Even In a previous thread it was mentioned in regards to pushing users to use their online outlook account, this no doubt will eventually be forced.

The last couple of years I've been focusing more with Linux based distributions, mainly Ubuntu server edition and Cent OS. I feel I'm more happy with working with Linux based systems now, putting effort into using bash has actually been more enjoyable, once again I couldn't stand powershell. I'm now even thinking changing my main desktop to a Linux based distribution.

I've worked with computers since I was 16, I'm now approaching 38, starting from a break fix environment, I just feel the last couple of years I've lost some enjoyment working within IT, has anyone else experienced this feeling?

@brandon220 I think Proxmox is a great front end for KVM. From what I see in the updates the other day, they are improving their backup server as well. The only type 1 hypervisor I don't like or not a fan of is Hyper-V. I can use it but it needs some tweaks if you don't have it joined to a domain. But there are some good backup products for it. EXI is good but see no point on me paying for it and no point in using the free version as the API's for VM backups are disabled.

Talk about over complicate things with routing. everything like you say should just point to pfsense. I wonder why it was setup like that.

What are your thoughts? at least they got rid of the tiles, can't stand them in Win10.
They are saying updates are going to be 40% lighter, We will see about that and they are going to allow win32 exe apps inside the store with android. Be interesting to see if they have moved more of the control panel items.

https://github.com/rocky-linux/rocky-tools

Rocky Linux is coming along nicely with AWS and Google as principal sponsors, here is the upgrade script - still in early stages but seems all good.

4 days ago Annoucement - Sufficient testing has been performed such that we have confidence in its stability for production systems. Free community support is available through the Rocky Linux Mattermost 32, IRC 9, and forums 11. Paid commercial support is currently available through CIQ.

https://rockylinux.org/

Rocky Linux is a community enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with America's top enterprise Linux distribution now that its downstream partner has shifted direction. It is under intensive development by the community. Rocky Linux is led by Gregory Kurtzer, founder of the CentOS project. Contributors are asked to reach out using the communication options offered on this site.

Doesn't bother me though, I'm a fully converted Linux User now. have been the last couple of years. I personally like my workflow in linux now.

Why would I throw away a machine just for the sake of Windows 11 which a lot of people will because they always want the latest and greatest so they say.

All this why we are meant to be saving the planet really, all this scrap computer parts that will be in your local tip.

Still very active and now on version 1.4.17. I'm still using this for my hosting and had no problems. Now have Auto updates on and 2FA.

Hahaha, yeah use edge..not chrome even though our browser is based on Chromium.

Just Installed, loving the new inbuilt document editors. Well done on this release, Brilliant indeed: