@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Moving from iOS to Android...
Honestly wasn't ready to but events have transpired to move things along.

Not sure how I feel about it.

I liked it when I did it. And then regretted it when the instability and hardware problems came, and the lack of vendor protection. It's weird the things you don't think about in iOS are often the killer features. From an interface and usability standpoint, I liked the Android better.

The whole vendor support thing really irks me, as some vendors support for their phones varies by model.
Luckily(?) I'm got the use of a Pixel phone and updates are good (just got Android 14 today!).

Even Pixel update support sucks monkey ****. They're great at getting updates out for supported devices, but devices are only supported for 3 years from the first day the device was sold in retail. For those of us that don't update phones regularly, that still blows. Apple has Google beat hands down in this area.

I say this while my personal phone is still a Pixel 3a XL. It works fine, but I've been growing more concerned over lack of updates for a while now. While I know I should upgrade, it's working great still.

Root it and install a custom rom? I've done that when I've managed to keep a phone beyond it's usual updates.

I've been looking, but haven't decided on a rom yet.

@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

What are some

You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.

@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.

I use nmap, so much faster and easier.

Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.

I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.

You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.

While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

CloudFlare having issues this morning.

I've been so busy on so many calls, what kind of issues?

Look at your Telgram feed, it's already been posted there.

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@irj said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@travisdh1 said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@scottalanmiller said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@dbeato said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

@mrwright4hire said in Network Admins: What are your daily BEST PRACTICE:

What are some

You should always have good old WireSHark, nmap included and a great network scanner.

@dbeato what do you use for a network scanner? I use Advanced IP Scanner.

I use nmap, so much faster and easier.

Generally a full subnet scan using nmap is much slower than Advanced IP Scanner.

I'm annoyed that I even know this right now, such is the state of the documentation we have.

You aren't using Nmap properly... It's so configurable and definitely faster than any GUI scanner.

While true, I'd have to install nmap first and the boss has advanced-ip-scanner already there, sad as it is.

I bet I can install it faster than you can use Advanced IP Scanner, lol.

choco install nmap -y

It's SO fast.

Oh, I'm adding choco everywhere I can, but they haven't even deployed that!

What? That's the easiest way to deploy AIPS! What the heck are people DOING over there?

Being your typical American MSP and going after billing hours instead of good business.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ordering yet another printer… and I think I have three more that will be needed in the near future…. Crimmy

Is it the worst of the worst and label printers?

Yup,.. I have a fleet of ZD621 printers and another large model with rewind…

Here, I have the solution for you...

@scottalanmiller said in Point of Sale System Recommendations, POS:

As many of you know, I have a new hotel and restaurant. Right now we have an existing POS system and we do not like it. We are nearing the point where we have the option to replace it. So we are looking for recommendations. We are not tied to only considering free or open source options, but obviously those have some advantages - especially considering that we have the IT skills in house to run something ourselves. But we are open to ideas of whatever makes the most sense.

I've worked with clients, and my wife is a retail store manager. After all these years.... they all suck.

None of them have been open source tho, so digging into those would be my first place to look.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.

Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?

Oh, I'll never buy one of those.

Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.

@marcinozga said in Need backup solution to replace Veeam:

I've had nothing but issues with Veeam recently, and literally every time I had to restore a vm, I had to call support, because Veeam is unbelievably slow. If I got hit with ransomware, it would probably be cheaper and faster to pay than wait for Veeam to restore backups. Throwing more resources at it does nothing, Veeam just takes hours to do any restores. Backing up works flawlessly, but I can't rely on a product that simply fails when it's needed the most. My renewal is up in little over 3 months and I'm at the point where I'm willing to switch to another solution.

Any recommendations for image based backups for Vmware vsphere? Ideally with support for Wasabi object storage.

You might be able to change backup vendors, but with Veeam restores taking so long, I'd be checking my infrustructure first. Do you know it is an issue with Veeam and not iops/network/wan causing the slowness?

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.

Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?

Oh, I'll never buy one of those.

Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.

Why is that my good man?

20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.

They're still loading spyware via drivers. I'll grant that it's been around a year since I was forced to do a factory install to see it for myself, but at this point they've been so bad for so long they can't be trusted.

@voip_n00b said in DNS Filtering Service:

• WebTitan
• DNS Filter
• Umbrella
• Next DNS
• Webroot DNS

Leaning towards DNS Filter

I'd avoid using Webroot DNS. It's filtering seems to be overly broad, and the company I work for is moving away from it.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Installer for my fiber internet is here, hooray!

Whole new experience today. Goodbye DSL and cable!

Thanks
Another thing for me to run in Powershell.

Yep choco install speedtest. So much faster than loading an add laden website.

@dave247 said in best way to map various combinations of mapped drives to AD users?:

@travisdh1 said in best way to map various combinations of mapped drives to AD users?:

@dave247 said in best way to map various combinations of mapped drives to AD users?:

I could probably use group policy to make a mapping for each drive, then assign each GPO to the necessary user.. but I feel like that would still be a little numerous or something.

Also, I know usually this sort of things is group based access, but we have a small company and many people wear multiple hats and essentially we end up with multiple combinations of access for every employee which makes group based permissions and things challenging.

I think you're halfway there. Yes, use GPO, but instead of assigning users to each GPO, create a group and assign the group to the GPO. Once everything is created, all you have to do for who gets what is add/remove users from the group for the drive mapping.

You mean make a group and apply each GPO for each drive to it, then add users? That makes sense.

Yep

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@GUIn00b said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Contemplating how to leverage 2 ISP's for supplemental bandwidth when needed using 2 separate routers that are both servicing the same LAN.

......So I'm gonna go post a new topic!

Get a DUAL Wan capable firewall, set it up either as Active/Active or Active/Backup.

You'll be banging your head sorting out getting a fault tolerant static IP address, though it can be done.

BGP..... that could be a whole series of topics itself.

@beta said in RAID 6 in my backup VM host on spinning rust?:

@pete-s How much are two 3.84TB enterprise SSDs going to cost me again?

Looks like $725.00 for a decent drive to me. https://www.serversupply.com/SSD/SATA-6GBPS/3.8TB/SAMSUNG/MZ7LH3T8HMLT_315446.htm?gclid=CjwKCAjwvuGJBhB1EiwACU1AiWcjFlCLGhxapMZf0wY3H-uXjzH65a1XOGuDj-i7Lm9muZiR77rxUBoCAt8QAvD_BwE

@laksh1999 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

@syko24 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:

@laksh1999 - From the looks of it, you are trying to run setup.exe from C:\Windows\System32. Fix the path to wherever you installation media is located.

ex: D:\setup.exe

Tried from D drive got this error

That is telling you that it doesn't know about the /PrepareSchema option. Try running setup without that option.

Starting to juggle job offers. This is before my severance ends, so things are looking up.

@jaredbusch said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:

@dashrender said in iPad 2 - are they still considered secure?:

OK Hive mind - I'm looking for opinions.

An iPad 2 - released in 2011, and not updated since iOS 9.3.5 in August 25, 2016.

Would you consider this a secure device today?

iPad 2 is no longer updatable, so no. It is not a secure device.

This

Accepted a job offer this morning, so I'm back to work tomorrow.

Slight raise to base pay, but I'll also get 5% of my billable hours. So if I keep my billable hours up, a big raise.

Only downside is that it's on-site in downtown Cleveland.

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@travisdh1 said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@travisdh1 said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@pete-s said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

@eleceng said in LTO-9 Tape Drives:

Noticed that the LTO 9 tapes have just been released (been waiting a while) and I need to purchase some and a stand-alone LTO-9 drive (not a whole library setup or magazine) but not having any luck finding one online to purchase.

i have a small office customer that has a huge amount of data to backup. We currently replicate to a Synology offsite (in the same town) but they want the tape to store out of state.

Has anyone seen any single stand-alone LTO-9 tape drives I can order or anywhere I should be looking?

Didn't know LTO-9 was out...good to know!

I'll question the use of a single standalone tape drive versus a tape library. Tape library is much more flexible.

Sure, tape libraries are much more flexible, but they still don't make sense if you can get by with a single backup tape. Which I'm assuming is why @ElecEng is looking for a single LTO-9 drive.

I don't really agree because the tape library is a tape drive AND a robot that can switch tapes, keep track of them and store them.

It will do it's job regardless if the human is there or not. Which mean the backup will always run, regardless if the person doing it gets sick, is on vacation or if it's a holiday. That makes sense even when everything fits on one tape.

And a tape library is a scalable solution. Meaning you can run more backups more often if you need and if your data grows and overflows into two or more tapes, it's no big deal.

While true, there is also a huge added expense. Just because something is better doesn't excuse not doing proper business planning.

I don't know how much added expense you can expect. I've always been under the impression that the actual tape drive is the most expensive part in a smaller tape library.

Had a look at Dells site and the difference between a tape loader with the tape drive and a tape drive is about $2K.

A Dell TL1000 1U tape library with a LTO-8 drive is roughly $7K and a Dell 114x rack mounted LTO-8 tape drive is roughly $5K.

Then you need to add tapes. 10 tapes is a just over $2K.

So we're talking at minimum of $7K regardless. And LTO-9 is going to be more expensive, both the drive and the tapes. New generation always are.

@travisdh1 I wouldn't call $2K a huge added expense. But maybe the client does. Who knows.

$2k is a huge added expense, when it's not needed.