@krzykat around here everyone's using the same bands, so not really an issue, just hook it up, point in the general direction of a tower and it's good to go. Your experience may vary.

@jaredbusch said in beyond bash shell scripting, what language should I use:

@scottalanmiller said in beyond bash shell scripting, what language should I use:

@jaredbusch said in beyond bash shell scripting, what language should I use:

@stacksofplates said in beyond bash shell scripting, what language should I use:

@jaredbusch said in beyond bash shell scripting, what language should I use:

@scottalanmiller said in beyond bash shell scripting, what language should I use:

Go is great as a language. But like Ruby, not installed generally. And fewer resources. If it was a greenfield new OS, yeah, Go for sure. But for practical reasons, Python I think.

As these are systems that I control, there is no reason Go cannot be installed.

Between your comments and prior ones from @stacksofplates I think I might try Go in order to learn it.

You normally wouldn't install it anyway as it's not a scripting language. You'd just compile your binary and ship that to your systems.

I completely misunderstood that about Go. Okay, I will do a bit of checking and decide what I want to do.

oh sorry, I figured you knew. That's why I never look at it, I don't want to deal with binaries in that way. But nothing wrong with that. Write it on your machine at home, compile, ship binary. Works just fine.

As fixed tasks, this is not a bad solution. So I will keep it in mind.

Right, no big deal in this case.

@jaredbusch said in Import a QCOW2 Into Proxmox:

@dashrender said in Import a QCOW2 Into Proxmox:

@scottalanmiller said in Import a QCOW2 Into Proxmox:

@jaredbusch good point, Linux doesn't "detect non-local" like Windows does.

ug.. what a pain that is!

ummm wut?

that windows detects SMB shares as remote.

@dustinb3403 said in Win 11 Home - install with local account:

@dashrender or just don't install Windows 11 Home if you don't plan to give Microsoft more insight into your personal habits.

This in my opinion makes little sense to work around from an end user or implementator standpoint.

With the online account you get better integration to backup systems (OneDrive).which for a home user is a pretty important feature. Among other features.

If you simply don't want these features for.a home device, why bother with Windows 11 at all?

If not already, not a practical thing for a typical home buyer buying a new computer today, because Win 11 comes on the computer.

But you're right - those people likely are better off using those services than not. God know if they buy a mac they are buying into that ecosystem - if they buy a chromebook, they are buying into that ecosystem.... so it's not really any different.

None the less - not many home users are surfing ML - and those that are should be able to find answer like this.

@dbeato said in any zimbra specialists:

also Ubuntu 16.04 and ZImbra 8.8.12 are old and need to be updated.

General system admin rule of thumb.... always update before troubleshooting. There is a high chance that patching alone will resolve issues.

@irj said in Windows 11 auto upgrade?:

Yeah. I have windows 10 on my home pc with auto updates and it only asks me if I want to upgrade. It never forces me or does it without my consent.

But if you do not give consent, it will update without your consent anyway (after some time) 🙂
You just can't stop updates on Windows 10, only delay it for some time.

@dashrender said in SPF records - for all A records?:

This site is pretty good also for checking the whole mailing stack
https://www.checktls.com/TestReceiver

That one was new to me. I'm going to check it out.

Another awesome resource, one that can test your own email from the receiving end is https://www.learndmarc.com/
It just great and will explain what happens.

It's made by uriports. We just started to evaluate their DMARC report monitoring service. Looking good so far.

@dashrender said in Recommendation: Non-Profit Site hosting:

Why do you need WordPress?

Do you need that level of functionality?

We're going to be looking at redoing my company's website this year (I think). it's on WP now, but really, it's completely just static pages, there is no need for on the fly changes - unless they wanted to change the whole theme.

It's more of the feature set... being able to use a WYSIWYG editor for events, announcements and such. In some regard- yes WP is over powered, but it also allows for the tie ins like Calendar, Mailing list, and more.

@dustinb3403 said in TacticalRMM issue today, anyone else?:

Sounds like you're using this in production, correct?

Truth. It's not the only remote tool that we're using, but it's a nice backup / complement to our other options.

@voip_n00b Yes

I'm going to make sure that registry setting is applied correctly on a few PCs and then restart them. I'll report my findings on Monday.

@dashrender said in Where are MSP managed on-prem workloads moving?:

@pete-s said in Where are MSP managed on-prem workloads moving?:

Thanks, it does makes sense to move to SaaS solutions for a single customer that is doing their own IT.

But a MSP is in a different position because they, besides know-how, have a larger scale. So it can make economic sense to host things for their customers that doesn't make sense for each individual customer.

For instance does it makes sense for a company to have a server to host their website on? No, it doesn't. But if you're an MSP and your customers have a thousand websites that needs to live somewhere, it might make sense for you to host them.

I guess it also depends if you're an MSP that just manages things or if you also have your own hosting/cloud infrastructure or use another provider for that.

All good points. I have no view into that world, the few ITSPs I know are using other companies solutions, not rolling their own, or even hosting their own. Though some of them, we'll take JB for example, do manage all the stuffs other than hypervisor and hardware for things like a Ubiquiti controller, and PBXs.

If you really do have need to host 1000's of websites (or really massive sites, it could make sense to manage the whole stack, but then again, it could be better to get services from someone like Vultr, or in extreme cases like Amazon/Azure.

It's possible that ITSP/MSPs in the SMB space in general don't own any infrastructure themselves.

I know large companies that fully outsource their workloads to service providers. Those service providers host the workloads primarily in their own datacenters but also on public cloud infrastructure. But these service providers are often large companies themselves so they have scale.

@dashrender said in Patch your Windows DCs - else they will break in July 2022 from a patch:

@notverypunny said in Patch your Windows DCs - else they will break in July 2022 from a patch:

How about this month's updates that sent 2 of our DCs into a wonderful boot loop first thing this morning...

it could be related.

Here's the article that saved us
https://borncity.com/win/2022/01/12/windows-server-januar-2022-sicherheitsupdates-verursachen-boot-schleife/

Had to boot the VMs without networking and remove KB5009624 and KB5009595 as they were both 2012R2.

@dbeato said in Goodbye hardware monitoring on HPE Gen10 and newer equipment running ESXi:

@dashrender However centrally managed doesn't mean site to site VPN. I don't get MSP that have site to site VPNs to their customers. It is not feasible to maintain, it is a high risk and very old school.

of course it doesn't.

using a tool like ScreenConnect - having all customer machines in a single account - means SC's hacked, then ever client is hacked...

@pete-s said in Yealink T41P and T41S difference?:

I've actually found one difference and that is that the T41S has a USB port and I don't think T41P has one.

Additionally, the general difference between the G and S line was the USB port and the ability to handle the OPUS codec. I would assume the T41P did not have OPUS support either.

@dafyre Connection closed by foreign host after a couple seconds lol

@scottalanmiller said in ProxMox eating SSDs?:

@dashrender said in ProxMox eating SSDs?:

Anyone run into this issue on enterprise hardware?

There is no "issue". Even those that claim that they are running into it, it's consumer drives with HA logging going to those drives. Its' nothing to do with ProxMox, it's just standard, everyday CoroSync logging. The people saying "this is system administration basics" are correct.

Or just understanding what hardware you need for the job.

All VM guest OS will write to the same drive as well. So 10 guests will generate 10 times as many writes + whatever the hypervisor itself is generating.

I just checked and Crucial MX500 have 0.2 DWPD, which is not bad for a consumer drive.
But compare that to enterprise drives that usually start at:

1 DWPD (read-intensive) 3 DWPD (mixed use) 10 to 100 DWPD (write intensive)

@jasgot said in Nextcloud 23:

You'd think they would use the same name for everything and outline the steps somewhere to get is all installed properly. Sheesh!

I noticed the same mess. They have had this all screwed up for some time. It makes no sense and there is no automatic dependency handling or clear guidance.