So I am planning to start with ScreenConnect for now, with the monthly package till the time Maxfocus comes up with MAC support- supporting MAC is very crucial for me, (my contact person in GFI told me that MAC support would be released very soon, I've invited him to ML so we can get more details). After MAC support is released I will reconsider the right tool which is why for now only planning to go with month-month subscription with screenconnect.

Not sure if comodo's product is useful enough, need to test this as well, its a free solution, might as well give a try! https://one.comodo.com

And upgrading my freshbooks account to the paid one as i really like it, easy and simple, can manage estimates, has built in ticketing system.

For emails, i am sticking with the current free google apps account and go with $8 office 365 which gives me full MS office desktop apps.
Laptop, decided to go with MAC Pro with Parallels for MAC installed for Windows side by side.

If you are interested in configuring pfsense check this video series http://www.youtube.com/user/nobluescreen

This channel has a full configuration tutorial of pfsense

From my machine

@JessWaterfordTech said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:

@scottalanmiller said in Help learning how to add CAPTCHA to contact forms:

@JessWaterfordTech that example shows PHP. Is that the language that you are using?

I'm sorry for this question: How do I determine what language my site uses? I am learning as I go and have not been formally trained on how to perform theses tasks.

You can try http://builtwith.com/ to find out what is the site built with.

Check out the sample report about ML http://builtwith.com/mangolassi.it

Thanks for the share, very cool!

@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2017 Topic Ideas:

@Texkonc said in MangoCon 2017 Topic Ideas:

@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon 2017 Topic Ideas:

What about a full day of Linux training in the training room? Like a class training, not a session.

Yes! What platform, Centos?

Probably. But Ubuntu, Suse, would be great, too.

Could also do FreePBX, Solaris or something as well.

A session on FreePBX would be great! And may be complete Zabbix, ELK training as well?

Seems like his question is why some guys are not referring another one to their company.

@Lakshmana if that's what you are asking, it depends on lot of factors. First of all there should be an opening that matches the skill, the IT guy should be confident enough on the other guys skill and knowledge, moreover there should be a referal policy that exists in the company. Atleast these are the things I need to refer someone to my company.

http://www.labnol.org/software/chrome-offline-dinosaur-game/28781/

Bear with me for the long story, but thought of sharing with you all!

I've been working on a server migration from a physical server to Azure.

The physical server has Sharepoint running (testing/development-single server), and to save cost, we wanted to migrate to Azure. Plan was to convert the physical servers disk to vhd using microsoft Disk2vhd for both c and d drives, create the Azure account, use powershell to import the vhd files to Azure, create vm using these disks

The disk size was huge and this server was hosted on a different location, and the only access to that was rdp and ftp and the ftp was really not that good on transferring this huge file. Used Disk2vhd converted the drives to vhdx, I had to use hjsplit to split the vhdx files with 3.5GB each and then download, combine back with hjsplit. After few days of downloading, got all the split files locally, combined it back using hjsplit and then used Azure powershell and tried to import it. Then I learned that Azure doesnt work with vhdx file! (as per my experience and research), wasted almost a week for this!

Redid the vhd creation, (this time as "VHD"), hjsplit-download-combine-Import- success!

So i thought, that was it, followed the MS document, and then created image with the VHD, tried creating the VM, it got stuck on provisioning the VM for around 4 hours and then failed! More google search and found out that the server has to be sysprep'd before you convert to vhd! But in my case I can't sysprep as the server was already up and running with SP. (Hope this is correct with Sysprep!)

Almost lost hope, but tried one more time.

From Azure- Virtual Machines- Disks- I created 2 disks using the VHD url for the imported VHD files, and then created virtual machine with that- From Gallery-My Disks- selected the c drive disk- and also added the d drive disk as additional- removed the "Install the VM agent" option (enabling this failed the VM creation again), and created the machine, after few minutes, the VM created successfully. Connected to the server via RDP and seems like all working fine!

I've given the server access to the dev to make sure the sp site is working fine, and I really hope all good and ignoring sysprep wont harm!

Is it possible to share some of the presentations from MC2016? And hope people like us who couldn't attend this year, get to see some videos soon!

@StarWind_Software
The description on the page says "StarWind doesn’t even we do not require licensing of all the servers in the cluster."

Since that made @scottalanmiller laugh (?!), may be I can get a key for 11 months! @Nic you listening?

@Carnival-Boy Having a Domain administrator account for the regular support tasks is not generally recommended. what I suggest is to create a normal account for these tasks and you can create a GPO targeted to all Computer Objects (excluding your servers) in your AD and add this account to the Restricted Group then this account will have admin access to all machines.

For more details about the Restricted Group: http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles-tutorials/windows_os_security/Using-Restricted-Groups.html

@Dashrender said in MangoCon 2017:

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Just realized July 28th is covered by this.. that is my 10th anniversary. hrmf... decisions..

Bring her along to romantic Rochester NY!

I tried to get my wife to come, she said no.

My Wife is coming with me, as we are planning to include our vacation after the conference. Need to find some fun activities for her while am attending MC2017. If not, I'm sure she will figure out something!

These are available domains
travelfamily.world
globaltravelfamily.com
globalgofamily.com
jetsetterfamily.us

And... As expected!

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/7-million-dropbox-usernamepassword-pairs-apparently-leaked/

Now that Trump keep coming up with new ideas on to block people from outside (i know that it is for now applicable to certain Muslim countries) i really hope it doesnt affect our trip. I will most probably book the flight tickets very soon. And need @Minion-Queen help on the ticket for Mcon and an invitation for us to get apply for the visa

I have a blog http://www.ambarishrh.com/ was on hostgator for many years and recently moved to ASO. Eventhough i have this site since 2008, there is not much content on that as much as i wanted to write! Last blog was a video tutorial just thinking that it would be easier than writing, but again on pause now. Need to start writing again!

Migrating my blog to CloudatCost and terminate hostgator account. Was planning to do with digital ocean, but now that i have the one time paid cloud at cast dev2, moving it to that. Hope the dev2 is more than enough for the blog for now, and then be active again on blogging!