Repos came back up last night. Must have been a SourceForge issue. Maybe they had a server down or something.

Looks like the topic ran away from me...been swamped with other things this past week...glad to see it made for good conversation.

Extract the contents of O15CTRRemove.diagcab (winrar/7 Zip)

wscript OffScrub15_015msi.vbs all

I think my issue was that in my environment, I already had Office 2010 installed. For some reason a wmic command to uninstall Office 2010 wouldn't work, but this tool does.

@brianlittlejohn said:

AD Migration Tool.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc974332(v=ws.10).aspx

Thank! looking more into it right now

@DustinB3403 said:

Damn you NFS-Common!!

That was it.

All working!

Good to hear!

Yes, that would work well. Also checking in the same version should not trigger a new version to be created. So the encryption malware would need to alter the file in addition to encrypting it each time or else it would fail even with the incrementing numbers.

In a typical over provisioned system (you can think of any folder-based filesystem as being this way too) you have many VMs, not just one or two. Once you have, say, a dozen it is trivial to over provision safely. You do this by a few means:

Reporting and alerting so that systems growing rapidly are addressed. Maintaining caps that are large enough for flexibility but small enough so that if X VMs spiral out of control it will not be an issue. The X factor here is to be determined based on your risk and risk aversion. If you have, say, a dozen VMs, you might have the cap set so that ten VMs could expand to maximum but not all twelve. If any two VMs don't have an issue, you would be all set. Or maybe you'd set it for six. You don't overprovision to where any VM could use the entire space, it just doesn't make sense.

@Carnival-Boy said:

You got any examples, because I've never come across anyone saying these things?

I've seen (and been involved in) discussions where people seem to interpret "I have a different opinion to you" to mean "I am insane and deliberately put my company at risk", but that's not the same thing.

There was one last night that brought up the topic, but it is common. It is normally an emotional reaction to reasoning. I'll give a solid one from long ago not associated with any community.... a director was presented with a vendor selling a product that was known to not work and was going to cause a major project to fail and was presented with an internally tested, known working solution that was essentially free. When shown that the cost difference was only a million dollars he responded "I don't sign paper for only a million dollars."

Not only did he use that statement to funnel a million dollars to a vendor that he knew couldn't do the job, he let a project fail too!

Fully Automated Nagios (FAN) is probably the easiest to set up and has Centreon for the graphical configuration. It works well but it hasn't had an update in a while so it's out of date some. Still works well. If you check out my projects on my profile over on SW you will see some screenshots of my install. Nagvis is the add-on that gives the cool maps I made.

@IRJ yep, makes sense then - it's for consumption.

I've only ever used their stuff to test. If I wanted to try something, but didn't feel like putting the effort into actually installing everything, I just download an image and run it.

I'm pretty sure they come default with webmin and some other junk also.

That's what I felt like, a full decade!! I really did feel like it was brand new when I started at CitiGroup, just a couple weeks before that. I was managing OF systems then.

@DustinB3403 said:

My point is that the key he's been using has likely been blacklisted. Therefor it wouldn't have anything to activate against.

It would have something to activate against, it would just fail, in that instance. Your answer led him to the opposite conclusion from what you intended.

@johnhooks said:

@RamblingBiped said:

I started my venture in to Linux Administration when I moved into a new position a little over 2 years ago. The thing that helped me get a handle on things in the beginning was participating in the Linux Group in the Spiceworks community and using a lot of Google-foo. A lot of the questions you are going to need answered have already been asked/answered a few thousand times over somewhere within that group...

Youtube is also helpful. TheUrbanPenguin channel maintained by Andrew Malice(sp?) is exceedingly informative.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFFLP0dKesrKWccYscdAr9A

The resources listed on the right side of the screen from the BASH sub-reddit are also very helpful:

https://www.reddit.com/r/bash/

He just recently wrote a book too (Urban Penguin, I think it's Andrew Malet or Mallet)

This guy seems fairly knowledgeable also

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvA_wgsX6eFAOXI8Rbg_WiQ

Thanks, I fixed the spelling. Thanks for the heads up on his book as well, looks like it might be a decent reference.

http://www.amazon.com/CentOS-System-Administration-Essentials-Mallett/dp/1783985925/ref=la_B00J5Q924A_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1452791001&sr=1-1

Unitrends replication is a feature that is reserved for paid options. You can archive a copy of your local backups to a cloud target like Amazon S3 or similar, though.

@nic Yeah I wouldn't mind trying it as well.

My only experience has been the other issue we discussed, so I'd like to give it a spin.

@Dashrender said:

Sounds like they really just don't want customers.

Yeah, they can go fly a kite..

Good marketing though if you click on Asia Pacific
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I usually just power off the server, yank all the drives out, mix em all up and put em back in. I also enjoy testing my backups quite often.

I'll have to try your method next time!

😉

Interesting. Though it doesn't indicate that one could limit - only set a ringer volume. I'll have to try.

Thanks. I found other Mitel docs just not that one.

Not yet, in a year or two, I'd expect it to get there.