@Dashrender said in Backup strategy for customer data?:

@scottalanmiller said in Backup strategy for customer data?:

@Pete-S said in Backup strategy for customer data?:

Bit error is 1 in 10^19 bits (enterprise HDDs are 1 in 10^15). That's actually 10,000 times better than HDDs. And 30 years of archival properties.

yeah, the tech behind LTO8 is freaking fantastic. And unlike HDD where research is stagnating, tape keeps advancing.

Would you really call it stagnating? They are basically at the atomic level already...

That's the primary cause of the stagnation. They are really struggling to keep moving forward with advances. That's exactly what stagnation means.

@JaredBusch said in Skyetel tenant functionality:

Well, the month rolled, and so I now have a report.

The tenant report is awesomely detailed for those that actually care about sending something on to a client.

In my use case, the client just needed location specific break out, so I only care about the totals. But OMFG the awesomeness of the numbers....

Great work on this part @Skyetel

Thanks @JaredBusch We're really proud of this!

@G-I-Jones said in Funky Exchange OWA Issue:

I figured it out. In IIS>Default Web Site>SSL Settings>Client certificates was checked to Require. I moved it to ignore, and viola.

That's weird usually no one has that checked by default.

Typo in the port, we found it.

@Danp said in Mocking API Endpoints with Go:

I know that Postman provides the ability to perform this type of API testing. Has anyone tried this feature?

I'm sure it does. The problem there though is if you're running in a pipeline you'd have to somehow get Postman downloaded, set up, and configured automatically to test against it. This is just in the standard library so you can unit test in your pipeline automatically.

@scottalanmiller said in Why Microsoft Wants You to Think Windows 7 Can't Be Upgraded:

@Carnival-Boy said in Why Microsoft Wants You to Think Windows 7 Can't Be Upgraded:

Desktop OS is important, because you need a desktop to access the cloud - but it's only important in as much as it is used to sell Azure.

But you can access Azure just as well (or better in many cases) from Ubuntu, ChromeOS, Fedora, macOS, etc.

Of course, but you can push users towards Azure by controlling what users see on the desktop - think pre-installing Skype or Edge or the Microsoft App Store. Google do the same for their OS. Amazon are probably the most explicit in practically giving away Amazon Fires just to push Amazon services.

@scottalanmiller
This reminds me of the article at Ars Technica:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/how-insurance-companies-are-fueling-a-rise-in-ransomware-attacks/

Best way to run Chrome on 2016 RDS.

Use this as a reference.

https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/187202?hl=en

Use enterprise edition and configure admx with GPO

Set
Disk Cache Directory
Roaming Profiles Directory
User Data Directory
Setting up Legacy Browsers and Plugin
Turning off Hardware accel and other settings for performance.

Just read that 💫 and configure what policies you need. Took me a day to set up but works smooth.

Sounds like this is a case where beyond some disruption, having a split backup strategy would have made the difference. It's becoming more and more a standard strategy to have an online (to the cloud) backup done using one tool, but a local backup done using another so that there are ways to recover if a backup strategy is compromised.

But it also shows that these weren't air gapped backups but were able to be compromised alone with the live data. How does someone like PerCSoft not have tape backup, virtual tape, or other WORM mechanism to protect all of that health data?

That it was hit with ransomware also means that there was a HIPAA compromise that needs to be disclosed because a third party got access to every bit of customer data! All of those dentists are stuck contacting all of their customers to let them know that someone got access to the data.

@scottalanmiller said in RAID5 on SSD in 2019?:

@Obsolesce said in RAID5 on SSD in 2019?:

@scottalanmiller said in RAID5 on SSD in 2019?:

As long as this is for capacity this is viable, if this is for performance, you'll find that no hardware controller is likely to be able to handle that many SSDs at full speed.

How much data can, for example, a PERC H840 move? All I can find is that it's 12 Gbps PER PORT, with 8GB NV Cache, seems like it'd easily handle 10x SSDs in a RAID 10.

You have to buy one and test it. No one releases those numbers 🙂

xByte has done that in the past.

Sure, if you buy me the server and drives, I'll get the PERC and test it! :face_without_mouth:

@scottalanmiller said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:

@bnrstnr said in Webex vs. Microsoft Teams + FreePBX conference:

One thing I didn't like about teams is that you have to install a client to attend the meeting, which is the same for Webex and just about every other major solution if I remember correctly.

Zoho doesn't have a client either. All web based. Same as Rocket and NextCloud.

They all use the WebRTC components in modern browsers.

@Dashrender said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5":

@manxam said in Dell Hot Swap 2.5" drive in place of 3.5":

It's not uncommon at all. Your other drives are most likely to fail during a rebuild due to the added stress of continual access during this process.
That's what makes something like RAID 5 on spinning rust so scary.

If all of the drives in the array are of similar age and from the same batch, I'd plan on swapping them all within the next while as each successive rebuild takes its toll on the remaining drives.

Agreed - and double check those backups.

I have doubled and tripled checked. Did a couple restores today with single files and also entire VM's. (Currently using Veeam)

@Dashrender said in Skyetel defenses tripped:

I have to hand to it to @Skyetel - it's outside of Support hours but they got the notice of my post and came in and responded.

Very awesome!

I hope that at some point Skyetel can hire some people to be in the support desk 24/7 (even if from home) so there is less stress on @Skyetel.

But for now I'll take the win in being part of MangoLassi!

Thanks @Dashrender for the nice words :).

FWIW - we do have on call 24/7, but only for emergency tickets from current customers. But I'm happy that I was able to get you setup!

@DarienA said in Azure - Timings converting unmanaged disk to managed disk?:

Trying to get a sense of the timing involved in converting an Azure VM using unmanaged disks to manage disks.

As a test I converted one small vm that just had an OS disk and that took about 10 to 20 minutes. The VM was down during the entire process.

We have some much larger machines with multiple 1TB secondary disks and I'm wondering just how much the time scales up, if all the disks are converted at the same time or done one at a time.

Anyone have any experience with the process?

I do not use VMs on Azure, so I have no idea. I use services, but not full VMs.

@Dashrender said in Symantec link filtering service:

I received what I believe is a piece of spam this morning with the following
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The link is

https:// clicktime.symantec. com / 3FZ8yRMPXqeT5DwJgDovod26H2?u=https%3A%2F%2Favubv-my.sharepoint. com%2F%3Ao%3A%2Fg%2Fpersonal%2Fa_schieven_avu-bv_nl%2FErvq0aDgPWxAumKR6UvW1gMBOMDt6ZSive168WZhHmk3Ag%3Fe%3Di6z0DL
(I added spaced to keep it unclickable)

The first part of that is a link to Symantec. Which says this
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So what? The spammers either found a way to fool the scanner, or the page just has more links, which are infected or otherwise bad.??

What do you guys think?

I have non-adjoined VMs for testing things like that. Click the link, open the files, whatever... then restore the VM snapshot after, just in case, lol.

What version of .net is installed on the server?

I'm failing to remember which version of Powershell had a hard but silent requirement for a particular version of .net.
If memory serves it would install successfully (no errors) but would actually fail to install if the correct ver of .net was not already installed.

Why not filter out the files that you don't need to rename?
Summat like:

(Get-ChildItem -Path "path\to\folder" -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Name -contains '•'} | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.Name -replace '•',''} -verbose -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -ErrorVariable daError)

@Kelly said in This doesn't sound right - 3rd-Party "Deduction Management Firm":

It hasn't gone into effect, but as of 1/1/20 you will be operating under this law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375.

Thanks. At this point, it is only companies that this request would apply to.