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  Can't move Stream_Autocomplete.
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  @dbeato said in Can't move Stream_Autocomplete.: I have used the Nk2edit And you can push it to the Office Cloud Autocomplete from an NK2 or the Stream file. However when Nk2edit can’t read a file it is usually corrupted and you need a previous version of the file. The current file is usable under the in house exchange,, and I have restored a few versions from backup.. Still no luck.. I may just be SOL.
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  How to Stop an Ongoing RAID Rebuild HP P420i RAID Controller
  raid hpe raid controller p420 • • scottalanmiller  

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  @wrx7m said in How to Stop an Ongoing RAID Rebuild HP P420i RAID Controller: @scottalanmiller said in How to Stop an Ongoing RAID Rebuild HP P420i RAID Controller: @JaredBusch said in How to Stop an Ongoing RAID Rebuild HP P420i RAID Controller: Shut the system down pull the failed drive and the hot spare turn it back on. You should be up and running on a degraded RAID array We are terrified to turn the system off at this point. I am guessing no backups? Is the system available at all? System is currently available. In theory there are backups, but no capacity to test them and they are across the country. This isn't a managed customer, so we have no documentation, no visibility, no access. We just have to trust that they say that there are backups. But they confused their UPS with their NAS calling both their "backup" so we have literally no clue what they do and do not have.
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  City of Munich Moving to Closed Source Software
  linux windows open source libreoffice closed source software munich • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Obsolesce said in City of Munich Moving to Closed Source Software: It looks like the whole issue was due to their use of some weird distro years ago. That article technically doesn't say why they need Windows now, so for all I know they have some new weird requirements I don't know about, but assuming they don't, I think the decision to go to Windows is a horrible idea. They'd be much better off going to Ubuntu instead. Yes I upvoted a post about how Ubuntu would be better than an alternative. Please no heart attacks people.
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  Installing Windows 10 without a Microcoft account
  microsoft windows 10 microsoft account local account • • JaredBusch  

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  Temporary turn off Network Level Authentication and try to again.
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  Taking over IT for a small business
  windows 10 windows 7 management dashrender • • Dashrender  

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  @JasGot said in Taking over IT for a small business: @JaredBusch How so? Go back and count the steps that you just listed.
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  IOPS for SSD?
  storage ssd servers iops sas sas ssd • • wrx7m  

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  @Pete-S said in IOPS for SSD?: I'm interest in this myself as I have a customer that are looking at ESXi on Dell R740 servers with the same type of CPU that you have but with less storage capacity overall. I just looked at the cost. You have to select a different chassis- "Chassis up to 24 x 2.5 Hard Drives including 24 NVME Drives, Max of 8 SAS/SATA" , which adds about $1300 bucks, However, the 960GB nvme drive is only about $50 more than the 960 GB 12Gbps SAS drive I was looking at. The problem for me, is that I can't get the storage density I need when using 2.5" drives. Also, it would cost quite a bit more if I could.
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  RDS 2019 Setup and RDS License Role
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  UNSOLVED Automatically running chocolatey upgrades
  chocolatey upgrade automatic updates • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch said in Automatically running chocolatey upgrades: How do various people do this? Re: Next steps with SaltStack @marcinozga said in Next steps with SaltStack: Not salt, but I used https://chocolatey.org/packages/choco-upgrade-all-at which creates the same task, that runs choco upgrade all -y. If salt is using windows task scheduler, then it should just work. Does that run as the admin account? Users have no rights to run this. Running the choco install command requires local admin rights - so I assumed either - it ran as system OR it would ask for the creds of the current admin user being used to run the installer. Clearly you found that it runs as system.
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  UNSOLVED Next steps with SaltStack
  salt salt minion salt master salt stack • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch Hi Play with this : https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.win_lgpo.html If you have windows minions and set it to run every 30/60/90 mins, and BAM you have AD without MS BS While you can use salt grains to target OSes, I like to diffrentiate them with good naming system: WIN.001 LIN.001 SRV.001 You might ask how to differentiate between windows SRV and Linux SRV, well frankly my dear i dont give damn, and i dont run Windows servers.
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  Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart"
  windows windows 10 powershell cli windows update windows 10 upgrade • • wrx7m  

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  @black3dynamite said in Windows 10 Updates - Trigger "Update and Restart": https://www.urtech.ca/2018/11/solved-easily-script-windows-10-to-download-install-and-restart-for-windows-updates/ USOCLIENT Documentation & Switches https://www.urtech.ca/2018/11/usoclient-documentation-switches/ https://omgdebugging.com/2017/10/09/command-line-equivalent-of-wuauclt-in-windows-10-windows-server-2016/ Thanks. I will check these out.
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  ZFS Planning with Heterogeneous Gear
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  @colejame115 said in ZFS Planning with Heterogeneous Gear: @scottalanmiller The reason I was mixing md raid and ZFS was I didn’t think ZFS allowed other ZFS devices to be used under a vdev. To accomplish this, would one need multiple zpools ? MD RAID can definitely do layers upon layers. But ZFS does this, it's how ZFS does RAID 10, for example, or RAID 60. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-create-raid-10-striped-mirror-vdev-zpool-on-ubuntu-linux/
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  Using unison instead of rsync?
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  @black3dynamite said in Using unison instead of rsync?: The author, Elliot Cooper says that unison is able to backup new files extremely rapidly compare to rsync Under certain situations. They each is more performant at different times.
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  VOIP.ms more secure
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  @Dashrender said in VOIP.ms more secure: Just received this notice. I'm not sure how this is more secure? I would assume you would have to know the password or be on forwarding through the listed registration IP to be able to use the sip trunk. How does limiting this to this specific IP or POP help? if you have the password, can't you just log in and change it to whatever you want? Registered SIP trunking is not the recommended method by a lot of systems. Yeah, it makes magic with NAT most of the time, but still. So by adding this, you can now securely use IP based trunking on VoIP.ms.
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  MS SQL Express cannot create compressed backups
  sql server • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch said in MS SQL Express cannot create compressed backups: @scottalanmiller said in MS SQL Express cannot create compressed backups: Would not have expected that. It is not a game breaker. The DB is only 1.2GB, but out of habit, i always compress backups with the native tools. This time I have to compress it after the fact. not a huge deal. Just annoying. Yeah, it's Express. Just seems like an odd feature to remove there. Definitely not a big deal, you can compress manually later.
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  In-Wall PoE Switch
  unifi switch poe usw-flex • • JasGot  

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  Just wanted to report back say this little switch was the perfect item for my need. It has been installed for over a month now and I have been very pleased with it. Not that it is doing anything special, it just does its job! We are using it indoor and we mounted its own little bracket to a single gang wall plate, then installed the wall plate, then attached the switch to its bracket. It makes for a clean install where there once was an ethernet wall jack. Everything about it is Unifi, so if you are familiar with the Unifi System, this runs like any other Unifi switch.
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  MSP Helpdesk Options
  msp helpdesk • • scottalanmiller  

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  @vhinzsanchez said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @notverypunny said in MSP Helpdesk Options: @vhinzsanchez said in MSP Helpdesk Options: Had deployed SW on-premise in my previous employment, I do not know how it will fare out after reading the news earlier. It has been rock solid even when others had an issue logging in when a problem struck...it seemed that my installation was not affected then. I've tried and really liked osTicket but I am now testing GLPI. I was looking into a ticketing system with inventory and the features which tied the ticket to a person and/or hardware and keep its history (like SW). GLPI with FusionInventory seemed to be just that. Let me know if you need any help, I've been dealing with the inventory side of that combo for going on 3 years now. Going to be getting more into the data-center / server room management side of it with the management and financials stuff next week. Yup, the network scanning inventory (fusion inventory) is where I stopped at. I have installed agent on 2 computers successfully but as it seems, it was not updating. It was not due to how it was programmed, rather, it is due to my limited understanding on how to configure it. This should be set and forget so long as you're installing as a service (or daemon if *nix) and your configuration file / registry entries are good. Another wall I hit is that all emails (new tickets and responses) have different time-stamp (15 hours late). Sounds like a possible issue with the php timezone config on your server
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  Comparing MeshCentral 2 to ScreenConnect
  screenconnect remote access meshcentral meshcentral 2 connectwise connectwise control • • scottalanmiller  

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  0.4.2-k a couple hours ago and -p now!!
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  Comparing Server CPU Capabilities?
  vmware server esxi cpu benchmark cpu utilization dell poweredge r740xd dell poweredge r720xd • • wrx7m  

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  @Pete-S said in Comparing Server CPU Capabilities?: @wrx7m said in Comparing Server CPU Capabilities?: ... And I don't have to run a Windows server for vCenter server or upgrade manager anymore. I haven't played around with VMware much. How does it work with vCenter? Does run in a VM on each hypervisor or completely separate from the hypervisors? It is a virtual appliance. You can upgrade and migrate from an existing Windows version. You can run it on a single server.
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  Laptop setup - multiple monitors, etc - suggestions?
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  @Pete-S said in Laptop setup - multiple monitors, etc - suggestions?: @Dashrender said in Laptop setup - multiple monitors, etc - suggestions?: @Pete-S said in Laptop setup - multiple monitors, etc - suggestions?: Keep in mind that you're using displayport you can run several monitors off one output. I know this, when I first deployed some HP mini desktop machines, they only had one DP port, but I needed to drive two monitors. This was a new setup, so I had to buy everything. I purchased two DP monitors, and had to buy a DP splitter (if you will) that provided two video outputs. I tried to purchase one again, and DAMN they are crazy expensive. I need to look into DP monitors that have a second port designed for daisy chaining... something I might do for this project. Another option is to just look into getting a larger monitor. 2 x 22" is not a huge amount of screen estate. You could for instance go with a 34" 21:9 like Samsung. Or just go with something bigger like a 40" 16:9 4K. LOL - do you know the price difference between those? We go from say $320 for two monitors to something like $600+ (often well over $1000). So sure, while it might be nice to have a single huge monitor, the price gap just doesn't justify it.
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  Cron task based on command line tasks.
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  @JasGot said in Cron task based on command line tasks.: #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root -prootpassword nextcloud > /tmp/nextcloud.sql 7z a -pencryptionpassword /tmp/nextcloud.7z /tmp/nextcloud.sql /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php echo "Today's backup of the My Nextcloud SQL Data is attached." | /usr/bin/mailx -A /tmp/nextcloud.7z -s "Cloud.example.Com Nextcloud SQL Backup" -r "[email protected]" [email protected] Make that a file, run with cron.
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  PBS Endo Performance Issues on Windows 10 1903
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  Instead of contacting support, have you tried the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation along with viewers like you?
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  EMC VXRail
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  @galezer said in EMC VXRail: if you count snapshots usage and price vs vmware and you are familiar with KVM its a win/win ... Sure, but it's a false comparison. The main competitors are Scale, Starwind, Simplivity, etc. They crush Nutanix in performance, ease of use, and price. Comparing Nutanix against a known bad alternative (3-2-1 with VMware) makes it look good, but that's like saying paying $100K for a Chevy Spark is a good deal because a Ferrari costs $300K. But that's not a good comparison. A good comparison is a $12,000 Nissan Versa which costs a reasonable amount and is still better than the Spark. It's true that the Nutanix is likely an improvement over an inverted pyramid + VMware, both things you'd normally rule out as just bad design. Using a false comparison makes it look plausible. But when you compare it to industry baselines of "standard good" it stands out as expensive and under performing (and just a bad actor as a vendor.)
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  Reverse Proxy install question
  reverse proxy fedora server vsphere 6.7 • • WLS-ITGuy  

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  @WLS-ITGuy said in Reverse Proxy install question: @scottalanmiller said in Reverse Proxy install question: @WLS-ITGuy said in Reverse Proxy install question: @scottalanmiller said in Reverse Proxy install question: @WLS-ITGuy said in Reverse Proxy install question: @scottalanmiller said in Reverse Proxy install question: @WLS-ITGuy said in Reverse Proxy install question: @wrx7m said in Reverse Proxy install question: @WLS-ITGuy What version of vsphere are you running? 6.7u2 They say it is supported... https://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2019/05/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8.html REHL 8 is - But using the drop down and selecting Fedora it says it isn't. Either way, I'll just use REHL 8 and be done. The drop down list told you RHEL isn't, either. Yet we know it is. ESXi is just broken. That one doesn't actually tell me it isn't supported: But the other RHEL one does. So clearly it's broken if it gives conflicting information. In one case, RHEL isn't supported, then RHEL 8 is. But RHEL 8 is still RHEL. I understand. I guess they don't update the dropdown in the software Then best to not use it and not to consider anything from it. Just skip it and protect yourself.
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  Skyetel sign up working better
  skyetel website issues • • JaredBusch  

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  @Skyetel said in Skyetel sign up working better: Maybe this? https://mangolassi.it/topic/20290/ad-blockers-advice I thought I had posted in your thread because I know that you posted that after my issue. So yup, going with I slacked and didn't post.
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  Skyetel support
  support skyetel t-mobile • • JaredBusch  

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  @JaredBusch said in Skyetel support: Never heard back from T-Mobile, but calls now connect. Ain't that always the way.
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  MailCow in Production Datacenter
  email smtp docker mailcow • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Dashrender said in MailCow in Production Datacenter: Question for Scott - the customer wanted self hosted email? why? It's a commercial mail hosting business. Among other things.
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  Looking for Career Advice
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  @DimS said in Looking for Career Advice: Gaining some additional certifications is always an option. Looking into something like VMware would definitely be worth the while. Thanks for the input!
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  UNSOLVED Looking for a 10 inch or so android tablet
  android nextcloud tablet • • JaredBusch  

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  @Dashrender said in Looking for a 10 inch or so android tablet: @JaredBusch said in Looking for a 10 inch or so android tablet: @Dashrender said in Looking for a 10 inch or so android tablet: $250 seems pretty cheap for such a use... you expect what - 5 years out of it, so $50/year... seems reasonable. It is. But taking 5 minutes to post a discussion was well worth it. I’ll buy an Acer also and see how it works comparatively. Actually, depending on the possible cost savings, maybe not. If you buy two and compare them, that billable time could eat much of that savings. - Could, no idea if it will or not. Though I'll agree the post just for info sake was likely worthwhile. $250 vs $150 is significant. I'm not talking single quantity.
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  Static Web Site Design Tools
  web design html hugo html 5 jekyll gatsby • • scottalanmiller  

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  @Obsolesce said in Static Web Site Design Tools: I really like Grav. It's a great static site platform, but is technically CMS and not easy for the layman to set up. It's a cool tool, but it isn't static. It's flat file, but it just uses the file system as a database (which filesystems are by their nature) rather than a DBMS. Grav would meet many of the needs, but it is dynamic and requires PHP which ideally we'd avoid.
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  Collections of eBook Notes for Professionals books
  free ebooks notes for professionals books • • black3dynamite  

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  Great! I had a look at some of them and they're not bad at all actually.