@CCWTech said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

@JasGot said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

@scottalanmiller said in Connectwise Control / Screenconnect recommends you break the law to run their software:

spending so much time waiting for ScreenConnect to finally be able to load its device list. We spend just as much time waiting for SC's list to stop flashing from its load problems as it

How many clients?
What list?
SC is very fast in my experience.

2,000 clients and navigation and opening are fairly slow.

Have you used session filtering and subgroup expressions to keep any given window at a reasonable level?

We have thousands of clients sorted into hundreds of sub folders [for lack of a better word]. Our largest folder is 332 clients and it is loaded before I can get my finger off the mouse button.

@JaredBusch said in Create Internal CA for Windows LDAPs and Linux apps:

@pmoncho said in Create Internal CA for Windows LDAPs and Linux apps:

When I export the key, I want to export the private key as well?

That depends. If you are only ever going to have devices using the key to auth against the DC that you created it on, then no.

But if you need to install the cert on a device and then have another device auth to that first device, then that first device needs the private key.

Thank you for the explanation.

Found the issue and fixed it.

There were some extra entries in the default pjsip profile which were the culprit. The entries were there since quite a few versions back and hadn't caused any sort of issue with the trunks until we updated yesterday. Even after reverting to the previous working version, the trunks wouldn't get properly created until I found the extra entries and removed them. After that, the endpoints are created and the trunks are up once again.

@sully93 said in Simple Password Compromise on MailGun:

@scottalanmiller, which service did you go with after dropping MailGun? We are looking at a relay service and have MailGun on our list. This is a bit concerning that they shut you down like that. We're also looking at Postmark and SendGrid.

We made the call to just move to Zoho and get email hosted. We've been super happy with Zoho.

@stacksofplates said in Securing SSH:

Another really good option is not letting them log directly into the systems at all and forcing them to use a config management tool. So something like Tower or a Jenkins server that logs all of the commands run and has the permissions set there.

Right. Just like the best defense is a good offense (or vice versa?) The most secure port, is a closed port. Locking down SSH, no matter how good, isn't as good as completely closing it.

Or using config management to only open it when necessary, is an "in between" step, too.

@gjacobse said in NextCloud Shared Folder, not seen:

JEEZE -

Though I had checked - it's been two months or more since then.

Some how the permissions had fallen off and just needed to be added to the folder again.

Solved!

Enjoy the easy ones

@Emad-R
Thanks for the tip. updated.

@Pete-S said in How to Rename a Column in SQLite Database:

There used to be a lot of databases like SQLite. Often called database engines. dBase was probably one of the first.
Later Microsoft Jet engine (aka Microsoft Access) became popular when Visual Basic ruled the world.
Basically it's a one user database. You can have more than one user but it's done by multiple users accessing the same database file.

Or by having an application on top that accessing the file and shares it out. That thing can be called a "database management system" or any application, really.

All databases use database engines. MySQL, for example, isn't a database. It's a database management system. It uses one or more database engines to talk to the files on disk. MyISAM and InnoDB are two database engine options for the MySQL platform.

At the end of the day, all databases work like SQlite. You can easily build your own database management system that uses SQlite as the engine and it could work just like MySQL or Oracle or SQL Server. Those are all single users to a file, under the hood. They just have the "multi-access" management built into an extra layer, instead of letting an application handle it.

But for most things, you only access a database from a single app anyway, so that extra layer is often unnecessary as it is redundant. Just adds overhead.

@JaredBusch said in VoIP Services and AUTO TOP-UP prepaid billing.:

it is usually open provisioning servers

Would this be a server that is not using whitelists for access?

@WrCombs said in Need POS recommendations:

there is also Clover Systems - Which isn't terrible, Lots of bars use this system

We see Clover everywhere, including at the cash counter for Municipalities for tax and water bill payments.

@Dashrender said in Compare Azure to Windows On Prem for Normal Business Workloads:

@Pete-S said in Compare Azure to Windows On Prem for Normal Business Workloads:

@scottalanmiller said in Compare Azure to Windows On Prem for Normal Business Workloads:

@Dashrender said in Compare Azure to Windows On Prem for Normal Business Workloads:

Hosting Costs
1U Colocation America, /24 IP Range
Monthly cost: ~$250/month
Yearly cost: 12 x 250 = $3000
5 year cost: 5 x $3000 = $15K

Last I looked, 1U was more like $225 with that many IPs. And I think typically you'd get fewer for a lot less cost and/or go IPv6. /24 is two IPs per VM. No need to pay for that.

Yes, the basic 1U was $100 with two power outlets and then you get four usable IPv4s.

A smaller server, say 16c EPYC, 128GB RAM, 2x500GB SSD, would be about $3500 and something even smaller, like a 8c Xeon @ 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, 2x500GB SSD around $2K.

So you could scale down everything substantially if you wanted. But if all you are doing is running a few very small workloads then a couple of $5 Vultr VM would be cheaper.

another factor is - are you running windows VMs, likely always cheaper to have your own hardware, but yeah, the amount of workloads definitely plays a factor here.

That's true, Windows workloads make cloud computing harder to justify. Not much, but a little.

@Dashrender said in A different mindset:

@DustinB3403 said in A different mindset:

@Dashrender said in A different mindset:

No, how do you make a Mac update Citrix without a third party tool?

Are you referring to a specific piece of software, like Citrix Receiver? If you had no other tool (brew.sh is the one to use by the way) you'd either have to use the App Store or download updates directly from the software provider's website.

Then I don't understand what you were saying about Windows requiring third partdy stuff - does does Apple by the sounds of it.

Apple, specifically doesn't if you want to use the App Store, but using a tool like brew is much more simple and straight forward.

@G-I-Jones said in Group Policy points to wrong DC:

@scottalanmiller said in Group Policy points to wrong DC:

It really only boiled down to I don't want to wait 15 minutes (the minimum replication between DC's) for a GPO to apply.

Then time to go to a single DC 🙂

But GPOs aren't meant to work this way, really. If you want faster results, GPO is the wrong tool.

What alternative to Group Policy do you recommend?

Salt, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc.

@scottalanmiller said in Software to complete Disable/Enable Windows updates on Windows 10?:

@Dashrender said in Software to complete Disable/Enable Windows updates on Windows 10?:

But fixes are coming more rapidly today than in the past, Zero Days are seeming to be found more frequently, etc. The need to patch ASAP is higher then ever.

They are, but not the fix for needing to reboot for every little thing 😉

True, that's MS's whatever you want to call it for doing their big rollups, instead of smaller non rebooting patches.

@Dashrender said in lpadmin Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS:

@DustinB3403 said in lpadmin Printer drivers are deprecated and will stop working in a future version of CUPS:

Keeping a system out of date on purpose for this though. . . ugh kill me now.

Better get used to it - it's exactly what those shops running old XP machines on million dollar printing presses had to do.

😧

@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Enterprise licensing...:

@Dashrender said in Windows 10 Enterprise licensing...:

Then they added Enterprise as part of E3 and better O365 licenses,

I think you mean M365, not O365. Do they really offer it now in the regular Office levels?

You're right - M365, O365 never includes the Windows OS, that I know of.

@nadnerB :face_with_tears_of_joy: 🤣 :face_with_tears_of_joy: 🤣 :face_with_tears_of_joy:

@stacksofplates said in Microsoft plans on retiring the MCSA,MCSD,MCSE certifications in June 30,2020:

This is just like that time when @JaredBusch and I argued with you because you said "we were laughing at people not using APIs in the 90s" meanwhile there are still a ton of companies making client/server architecture including a piece of software you have to support.

Actually, no, it's completely different.

You are conflating the idea of people doing things poorly with that lots of people do do things poorly.

If you stop putting words in my mouth and actually read what I write, you'll see absolute consistency. Your understanding or assumptions jump around wildly because I'm being realistic and evaluating each situation on its own merits, not in spite of it.

In the example you just gave, yes, I'm mocking people for doing things poorly. But that in no way claims that I believe that people don't do things poorly. In fact, I've stated ad nauseum that the majority of the world does things poorly. And I've said many times that we should make people doing things be more accountable.

@zubairkhanzhk you're welcome!

@Romo said in Cisco SPA504G Call Reparking issue:

Totally agree, the phones suck, but they are what the client has as they didn't want to upgrade to new phones =(

Same here, we have an office full of that Cisco garbage, but hopefully we will be switching out our provider soon.