@scottalanmiller

Hey man, been working like crazy, I lurk but don't get a chance to post very often. 😃

@black3dynamite said in BTRFS is not default on Fedora 33 Server Minimal:

@scottalanmiller said in BTRFS is not default on Fedora 33 Server Minimal:

Stratis is just an automation and communication layer for XFS and LVM

I did not know that.

I didn't either, was just researching it, lol. It makes it a lot more valuable, it is essentially taking the "one filesystem" advantages of ZFS or BtrFS and making them happen with traditional, mature technologies. Kind of a best of both worlds approach. Actually quite nice, if it works well.

@Emad-R said in k8s VS slack:

devops-me2.slack.com

Also another reason i decided to do this, notice how much developers have support inside company... like they have 40 others DEVs, but its not the same with system admins and devops

@Dashrender said in MeshCentral Web RDP Client:

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Web RDP Client:

You ever try this?

I've not, I keep forgetting that it even exists, lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Search from Start menu is blank/black:

I get this fairly often. No idea what causes it.

This is a rather known bug, it was previously correlated to cortana not being able to connect to the internet.

@ls_tech said in I bypassed my jobs security restrictions...:

Funny thing i accually tried to use the situation to send to the IT department and see if they could get me a job over, turns out only SUP can talk with IT departments and the emails i tried to send off too are old. i was excited to use it in a positive way. Yeah ill just learn at the job and not take a risk of termination by telling/

From what you said elsewhere, IT may be all offshore which would imply that, unless you want to take a paycut and move to the Pacific Ocean, there's no IT option for you. When a company of any size outsourcings and/or offshores a department, that will normally cut off any path you have at joining that department from the US, at least not as a very senior resource.

We face a similar problem. We aren't in Asia, but are in LATAM. If you were working for me in the US, and this chain of events unfolded, and IT was your dream, and we were impressed with your work.... you'd still face a "so, you want to move to LATAM?" question before you could consider a position on our IT team.

Sadly, it's most likely, if this is how your company is, that it likely doesn't present a path into IT for you in you are in the US. But that's okay, it's a great job for studying IT and learning and getting ready for that IT job somewhere else.

Also, I highly recommend less time on the A+. Read the book, learn the material, but do it quickly and skip the exam. Go right to the Network+. Any job that cares about the A+ isn't a real or good IT job and will just hold you back long term. A+ is an exam for bench, not IT. Loads of crappy IT shops expect it, but is a crappy shop what you want? Probably not. Go for the IT exam instead and move directly into an IT job. Slightly harder to get your foot in the first door, but a much faster ladder to climb.

@gjacobse said in SCCM: Configuration Manager Properties; Run all actions:

We have noticed that unless you run all actions in SCCM:CM on the PC, it doesn’t update correctly.

While I can go to CMP in Control Paul and select/run each is there a way to run this from the CLI?

Asking as I am also searching,..

Yes- there is, in PS.

Found on poweshellbros.com. Update later when I can

Recently, I have come across this same issue. I have it posted in spiceworks forum asking for a resolution. The only thing I have found is to do a system restore back prior to the Oct20 windows debacle and then regedit the pc to NOT take windows updates, which is a bad thing in itself. So, my question is why can't we just go back to win7? LOLOL

@bigbear This is still a good idea. How is it going now?

Did you stop all the Exchange services as well?

@Pete-S said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

@JaredBusch said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

@Pete-S said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

@Dashrender said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

@Pete-S said in Detect problems with OneDrive, Dropbox and other synced cloud storage?:

We've recently started using Zoho Workdrive and I think it works about the same as every other cloud storage that can sync folders and files.

I'm wondering what happens if a client for any reason doesn't sync the data to the cloud anymore. Is there a way for admins to detect that, for instance in OneDrive?

On the client side there definitely is, not sure if there is on the server side.

I was thinking server-side. So if you have hundreds of users you could be certain that all of them are actually syncing their data (on a regular basis) and not just working on local files without sync.

Yes, O365 has reporting for that.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/activity-reports/onedrive-for-business-usage?view=o365-worldwide
The server has to know when user have connected or not.

No idea for ZoHo.

Thanks, activity report makes sense! I guess if someone has no activity that could be an indication that something might be wrong.

Zoho Workdrive has that as well. https://help.zoho.com/portal/en/kb/workdrive/admin-console/activity-report/articles/activity-report

The O365 activity is based on file changes. not just "connected"

@dbeato said in M.2: Initialize Drive:

@gjacobse At this point if data is important you should use a data recovery company to see if they can get the drive and then you can decrypt it.
https://drivesaversdatarecovery.com/

Yup-
State device no my problem anymore.

@jt1001001 said in FreePBX vs 3CX 2021 Edition:

@gjacobse you will probably be stuck with Avaya or maybe Shoretel/Mitel if the fed is involved

Jeez, I'd hope they would at least go RingCentral.

Well now it's mutal.

You can have replication if you have Starwind Clustering on the hosts (That's how I have some customers). That said, even on those situations I have a DC on the Local Host Hyperv of one of the servers or have a Site to Site VPN with a DC on Azure or AWS as a failsafe.

@Pete-S said in Hello IT Community!:

They don't manage or operate anything, they design different aspects of the car.

Well, in the race car analogy, lol, yes. But in IT they don't.

Software Engineer: Writes the code that runs on a router or switch.
Hardware Engineer: Designs the chips and motherboards of the router or switch.
Network Engineer: Determines which routers or switches to buy, how many, and how to initially configure/deploy them.
Network Admin: Maintains and adjusts routers and switches that are already in use.

The first two roles are software engineer and electrical engineer. They make products that you can sell and buy and neither would ever consider themselves IT in any way, and as IT we should naturally feel that they are very different.

The second two roles are IT. They don't make products, the configure and manage the products. The first two roles sit on the "Vendor side" of things . The second two sit on the customer side. The IT jobs are all about "using whatever products are right for our network and business needs", that's where they become IT.

@frodooftheshire said in Router placement with PTP Unifi network:

At the new office I have their new router in the rack and now I'm trying to decide if it should stay there or be placed at the original office where the Comcast circuit will reside.

Second site doesn't have any need for a firewall, do they? They don't have a WAN link.

@AlyRagab said in Asterisk/Elastix setup in AWS:

Actually it is a POC level of environment. I am convinced already that Asterisk "As a legacy app" is so difficult to make it cloud native kind of application.
For me i am away from the VoIP field since more than 4 years now, so is there any other complete solution that can be scaled and hosted in AWS ?.

You are getting things backwards. You should be responding with "oh, AWS and cloud are the wrong approaches for VoIP". It feels like you are driving with a solution and trying to find a goal. Cart before the horse. A POC of a fundamentally bad idea is still a bad idea and a waste of resources.

Is the idea of scaling VoIP interesting? Sure. Can you produce a use case for it? Maybe. But it'll be a stretch.

Does anyone make a complete solution? I doubt it. There's no market for it. The only places that could make use of it are enormous players who would make their own solution (e.g. Twilio) in order to do something unique. If you are the kind of shop that needs this, you can't really use someone else's product. If you need to do someone else's product, we can safely assume it's the wrong product for you.

@JaredBusch said in Proxmox pricing:

@stacksofplates said in Proxmox pricing:

but users on your LAN need a link or some way of knowing it exists

Users of the things running on it do not.

If they're interacting with the hypervisor. Not like windows users. But anyone using the hypervisor would. Should have been a little clearer.