@Carnival-Boy said in SAMIT: Should You Provide Equipment for Work from Home Staff?:

We do all of those things to. I still don't know why you'd think we don't.

What do you do outside of MS and ERP? Why make your team broad, if the company doesn't consider doing anything outside of the immediate scope per your other description? It's interesting to be so focused yet have a broad idea of learning. For us, broad learning makes sense because of business/IT is in our scope so anything that makes us better, is good. But if you are "we are fired if the customer changes tech" that puts you in an awkward position of having to expose to customers that they should leave you in order to provide IT guidance in cases where the product you support isn't a best fit. That's why traditionally that situation is only used by VARs.

Check out Fortigate product. FortiNet offers documentation on setup of their firewalls for PCI DSS compliance:
https://help.fortinet.com/fos60hlp/60/Content/FortiOS/fortigate-compliance/PCI-DSS.htm?Highlight=PCI
They office a subscription service whereby they manage patches/updates for their firewalls as well as monitoring (specifically, Logging, to me it really isn't monitoring) in order to match the "managed firewall" checkbox. Now, I only have a little experience with Fortigate's as we just installed one in our data center as we have a customer requesting us to be compliant (for no apparent reason other than they want us to be, we do not store credit card data and do any processing via https web site)

@WrCombs said in Windows 10 Reboots:

So it was not a windows issue - It was the software running two or more instances of our mobile software at one time after a refresh.
What was happening was the software would restart, then try to open 2 or more at the same time causing the system to error and restart to try to clear it it's self.
Made changes to the settings in the system config files and have tested with 3 different refreshes today - It has not rebooted once.
Thanks for all the help with figuring this one out. I think i've gained a wealth of knowledge from this thread.

to expand on this - the back office becomes one of the "terminals" as an interface. When the refresh was happening the "back office terminal" was the culprit.

@WrCombs said in Yet another Communication issue....:

@scottalanmiller said in Yet another Communication issue....:

When troubleshooting on the network, always start at the bottom and work up.

Start with a ping to the IP (not the hostname.)
Then ping the hostname.
Then nslookup the hostname.

These basic steps tell you what is working and what isn't. Don't hop around, use progressive testing and you'll get to answers really quickly.

That's good advice,
We usually start with Aloha based issues such as the control service running on Server, any files telling it to stop, that sort of thing.
Then we move to Windows/networking.

If you know other things are working, you can move up the "stack" to where you can guarantee success. Like if you are transferring files, you know ping works.

There is also an "I can't even thread" that is updated regularly. Maybe it is time to add that as its own category.

@jaredbusch said in Topic sort order when clicking on a tag:

@dbeato said in Topic sort order when clicking on a tag:

@jaredbusch said in Topic sort order when clicking on a tag:

So I misclicked on the "time waster" again and this time remembered to get a screen shot.

WTF is up with this sort order.

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Is it supposed to be like the recent updated post? or by when the thread was created?

Not recent or there would have been an unread post on top.

Gotcha

@wrx7m said in Solved - Dark reading - Add RSS Feed to Outlook 2016???:

@scottalanmiller said in Solved - Dark reading - Add RSS Feed to Outlook 2016???:

@wrx7m said in Solved - Dark reading - Add RSS Feed to Outlook 2016???:

Weird. I was trying to add it from my home computer and when I got to work this morning, it was there and had populated it with the feed.

Dark [feed] Magic

LOL - I was thinking it was because the link was asp not xml but I guess it didn't matter after all.

ASP just means that it is a site using MS ASP technology to generate the page, just like PHP, ASPX and others. ASP is a reference to an application platform. What ASP generates as output is text, like HTML or XML.

ASP, though, was last used around 2002. That's VBScript, most likely.

Nvm, answered my own question here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48255541

Supreme Court upheld it.

@thwr said in Dell iDrac still requires Java:

@travisdh1 said in Dell iDrac still requires Java:

@thwr said in Dell iDrac still requires Java:

@JaredBusch said in Dell iDrac still requires Java:

I have not needed to use the iDRAC console in a couple of years now, and I had not realized that I still had to have f'n java installed in order to use it. WTF....

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Pretty much the same for every kind of remote console, be it on an IBM, Dell or SuperMicro server or on an Aten IP KVM. PITA, big, nasty PITA.

How many of us have a VM on our workstation just for this? I know I do, and it's hard to get much smaller than we are and still need any IT.

Yup, using a VM for this. Yet another system to maintain.

I have a machine or VM (depending on client) running Veeam already so I drop java on that via chocolatey.

My manager (IT Manager) messaged me a screenshot of speedtest.net results from one of our DC's that showed there is 33 ms ping times, and that I should look into this. I login the DC, pull up command line, ran a continuous ping to 8.8.8.8 with solid 3ms ping times. I sent him a screenshot of the command prompt and said ping times look solid to me, and speedtest.net does not give accurate results of network latency from a computer as the built-in ping utility from windows.

This is basic troubleshooting, and is just sad.

@FiyaFly said:

I have Centurylink at home. I can do a quick check from there when I get home. Maybe unrelated, but I was having some severe issues with DNS a couple weeks back at home.

I'll post more info on my findings tonight.

Thanks.

This'll go well with my FCC Certified IEEE 802.3 compatible network cards.