@pete-s I guess, still seems like "participation trophies". I'm at the point where I'd rather just have the cash or time off and not deal with this kind of game.

@pete-s said in POTS EOL?:

@dashrender said in POTS EOL?:

uh - whats IP? VOIP is IP, does it really matter if you have an ATA in the picture?

Hell, yes it matters. Alarm systems may dial the central with DTMF tones but when they start communicating it's a totally different ballgame.

If voip could transfer all the analog audio signals exactly as they appear without any jitter or compression then it would work flawlessly. But that is not how voip works.

You still have these issues with traditional POTS though too, except that the systems that used these POTS services understood and could deal with the issue.

@fredtx said in Did I connect these switches according to best practices?:

@scottalanmiller said in Did I connect these switches according to best practices?:

Is there a need for all the switches? I thought that you were reducing by one?

The one I reduced was the EdgeSwitch Lite, because it didn't have POE capability.

Isn't the edge the newest piece of equipment?

Router ---- edge (for non Poe stuff) ---- meraki for everything else

The question that hasn't been asked is how many ports does the customer use? 100 devices, but those aren't all on the LAN over Ethernet, right?

@dbeato said in MS O365 Autodiscovery: Failing:

@dustinb3403 What do you mean disabling autodiscover for a user? Are you talking about a registry key?

No, within O365 you can either selectively disable authentication protocols because you're a glutton for punishment or you can do so with conditional access policies or Security Defaults.

@iroal said in Booking dining room O365.:

Due to Covid, we have limited access in the office dining room.

The dining room allows 10 people simultaneously.

My idea is to create a room, or resource, in O365, that allows an occupancy of 10 people, but that can be reserved by 10 different employees. I don't want an employee to be able to reserve all 10 seats in the room.

O365 or Outlook allow this?

Thanks.

That's not really how resource scheduling works, you be better off having 10 individual resources which can be booked simultaneously, rather than 1 large resource.

@pete-s said in Remote control with buttons?:

@dustinb3403 said in Remote control with buttons?:

The end goal is to use it as a mouse? Do the buttons need to be programable?

No, no mouse function needed. The end goal is to use it to trigger macros.

So ideally programmable buttons or if the remote generates keys that can be picked up by another software.

I'd honestly look at a programmable compact mouse for this..

I've not seen any decent devices for this type of use before (that weren't ultimately mice)

From time to time you'll want to remove an application from your system (say from the Windows App Store) that has appeared on your system without you knowing why, when or how.

You could of course use the Microsoft App store to do this, but who wants to open that nightmare....

Here's how you can find and remove an application (package) from Windows using PowerShell.

$Bloat = Read-Host -Prompt "Supply at least a partial name of the app to remove"
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Where-Object {$_.name -Like "*$Bloat*"} | Select Name, InstallLocation 
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers | Where-Object {$_.name -Like "*$Bloat*"} | Remove-AppxPackage

In my case I wanted to remove some new HP Application called JumpStarts which installed over the evening hours.

Using the above, you'll be prompted for the App name (title bar) or some portion of it so you can search for it, and then PowerShell will remove the application.

This will remove things that don't appear in Add and Remove Programs (Appwiz.cpl).

If you want to uninstall applications that are in Add and Remove Programs you can use this (I haven't refined it as much yet as I was just getting it sorted out)

$SEARCH = 'Advanced IP Scanner 2.5'
$RESULT =$INSTALLED | ?{ $_.DisplayName -ne $null } | Where-Object {$_.DisplayName -match $search } 
$RESULT

if ($RESULT.uninstallstring -like "msiexec*") {
$ARGS=(($RESULT.UninstallString -split ' ')[1] -replace '/I','/X ') + ' /q'
Start-Process msiexec.exe -ArgumentList $ARGS -Wait
} else {
Start-Process $RESULT.UninstallString -Wait
}

@dapdomma said in How to change Company name:

@dustinb3403

Done That but not working , how can I can I get to the source Code or which source code can I check and where (location).

Best Regards

Check the github, the software is opensource so you can change anything you want.

But that value is within the database, and changing it manually will very likely cause you more headaches than changing it through the web interface.

@danp said in Backup Solution for XenServer:

@dave247 said in Backup Solution for XenServer:

Veeam Backup and Replication

I wasn't aware that this product worked with Xenserver / XCP-ng.

It only works within the guests not at the hypervisor.

Actually I may have found the credentials, buried....

God I hate other people who don't use any logic...

@jaredbusch said in KVM or VMWare:

@hobbit666 said in KVM or VMWare:

What about XCP-ng? Would that be something to consider to run a business on?

I am unclear on how supported it is. Tech wise, it is still KVM.

Xcp-ng isn't kvm, it's Xen.

@irj said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

@krzykat said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

@dustinb3403 said in Does Mesh Central support blanking remote screen:

With another product I had a customer complain because we had to jump into a server because of performance issues, and they could graph that we too access the active console of the server (all virtual). And thought it was a security risk because we could potentially see confidential data.

Of course we are the domain administrator as well so...

Then their option is to hire their own onsite personnel that handle the same tasks, won't be as qualified and cost them more money. If you don't trust your IT team ... well time to move on. I don't want any clients that don't trust us.

Insider threat is the number one threat.

True, but that isn't such a concern here more than just a basic lack of understanding of remote support tools and how console access works (to a physical or virtual system)

This is all you have within the SonicWall control, on or off. I saw this yesterday and assumed I was missing something critical. The most basic APs in the world include the "Identify AP" functionality.

Apparently, SonicWall APs are more basic than basic as they don't include this functionality at all.

On or off is all you get.

So this will definitely impact some if not all of you, but all Gen 10 and newer HPE Servers with hardware RAID, running ESXi will no longer be able to monitor the drive or array's health. Below I'm quoting Mario Glenwin from L2 Technical Solutions Consultant from HPE.

We received a confirmation from engineering team. Smx-provider package is set to retire and we are recommending customers to remove the same going further.
There is no additional development/research happening on smx-provider.

Engineering team have recommended that we could monitor drives from ILO/AMS and One View if configured.

Support article for the recommended fix: https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00117054en_us

With 3.53 or newer raid controller firmware on Gen10 or newer servers you can expect to see misreported issues like the ones pictured below.

HPE's current officially recommended solution to prevent seeing these errors is to uninstall the SMX-Providers from within ESXi. Unfortunately VMWare and HPE documentation lists the smx-provider as the solely supported way to monitor storage.

https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/pdf/vi_cim_guide.pdf

You could of course move to HPE OneView or potentially use ILO to email alerts out of an individual server but there are far more fault domains then getting directly reported from the tooling on the Hypervisor (in this case VMWare).

I've been in conversations for months now about this with HPE and it appears that this is likely not going to change for the better.

@pete-s a mix, where I currently work we ha e our own Colo and in office servers. A large number of our customers require on premise hardware for their offices, cloud servi es make sense for a lot, but not everything. Even colod workloads make little sense to a lot of our customers.

While it makes a ton of sense to move to hosted email, or even file shares, there are so many proprietary systems that business uses that aren't cloud ready.

So this is an annoyance that I've not been able to figure out. We have a few customers that use Sophos firewalls and the SSL VPN with it.

What I can't figure out is how the heck can I remove a connection from the Windows application if it's no longer required.

Anyone have any input on this?

Hey all, long time since I've posted. To summarize the ask is anyone familiar enough with Windows SDK to build an MSI out of an EXE? Hoping for a crash course on this.

The software vendor provides only loose instructions to building an MSI, but it's all for SCCM and not SDK.

Thanks

@jt1001001 said in User migration to azure:

We used https://www.forensit.com/domain-migration.html to do profile migrations; it worked OK but the big pain was it would not move Outlook profiles correctly and we had to rebuild Outlook for some of our users

Yea I've used this in the past for migrations and haven't had any issues. Actually have a new customer that is wanting to get setup with some central administration of things and this was on the list to use.

@scottalanmiller

I'm not shocked.