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Not sure if it would be helpful, but here is a discussion from a while back...

https://www.mangolassi.it/topic/10275/team-collaboration-tools

I keep thinking of Hawaii every time I see this thread.

@scottalanmiller said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:

@BRRABill said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:

@scottalanmiller said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:

@black3dynamite said in UrBackup Review plus Configuration Options:

@scottalanmiller

Altaro VM Backup also had to create their own CBT for Hyper-V too.

I can't believe that no one has done this for XenServer or KVM yet. Seems like it would be a huge win to have it.

Don't you remember the first rule of XS Club?

I can't say.

No that's the first rule of Fight Club.

The first rule of XS Club is .... AS-IS!

@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:

@BRRABill said in Office365 Considerations:

@scottalanmiller said in Office365 Considerations:

@BRRABill said in Office365 Considerations:

What is in it for the partner, then?

Getting a customer, nothing else. It's not a money making scheme, it's just a way to get your name in front of customers.

I guess the bigger question is ... if support is needed, does it go through the partner as billable hours? Or does it still go through MS. That part has always alluded me.

It goes to MS. Why would it go to the partner when you buy the service from MS? That would be really weird.

OK, then why is the partner involved?

Hmm, I seem to have started a good topic here!

Man, I wish so much good will towards @olivier

Really making and continually improving such a great product.

I am about to do a total rehaul of our existing WordPress site. Change the theme we use, and a lot of the content.

I figured it would be easiest to set up a new temporary site, do all the work on that, and then just migrate it over, erasing the old one.

However, there are multiple ways of accomplishing this. I was wondering if anyone does this sort of thing, and how you normally proceed.

Multisite? Just install into a subdirectory of the existing website? Create a new site, say, on VULTR for a month?

@gjacobse said in WordPress New Site Question:

I have HostMonster for my personal Host. But I run several domains from it.

I have the domain folders set as _site So no reason you can't do something similar.

Adding your sub domain as you showed is the way I would go.. you can go so far as to copy your current, add the new db, update as needed for the pointers and have a duplicate site running in moments.

That what I was thinking would be the best way.

I'd just change around a few folders and config files and be done.

But, I always like to run things by people. It's just me here, so there's no one to bounce ideas off of.

@momurda said in BRRABill's Field Report With Linux:

I think you mean ip addr
ifconfig is old-hat, apparently. I still in habit of using ifconfig myself.

I started way back in the day of using ifconfig and just haven't broken out of it it.

Way back in the day meaning like July.

I never signed up for that.

I seemed to remember a few people saying "hell no am I providing them that info" ... so stayed away.

Let me know how things go for you with that service... Maybe I will sign up.

Hey, finally this thread got around to convincing the OP to move data off the local machines!

@thanksajdotcom said in Amazon Echo vs Amazon Dot vs Google Home:

Also, I do have Prime, and shop a massive amount on Amazon, so there is that too.

Preaching to the choir...

@JaredBusch said in Installing apcupsd on XenServer 7:

@BRRABill said in Installing apcupsd on XenServer 7:

@JaredBusch said in Installing apcupsd on XenServer 7:

Assuming you have the EPEL available yum install nut

http://networkupstools.org/

I mean ... why do you like NUT over apcupsd?

Honestly, I have barely used both so far. But I like NUT better so far with the little I have setup.

Fair enough.

apcupsd was pretty easy to set up via USB. Now I just have to test to see if that XS setup really works.

@travisdh1 said

NUT should work with any model UPS, not just APC like apcupsd.

@JaredBusch said apcupsd works with other UPSes as well.

That was my first question.

@brad_altn

The reason I was asking is because offline @scottalanmiller were having a discussion about the security of e-mail.

His take is that e-mail is inherently secure as long as you "turn on that one trivial setting" to force encrypted connections.

I never found that option in MDaemon, and also see servers connecting to mine that also do not have TLS enabled, so I am assuming it is out there in the wild. Though a quick look through looks like almost all have STARTTLS in the SMTP log. So maybe the answer is that all servers do it anyway, or at least any server you'd want to talk to. But for HIPAA or other regulatory requirements, that's probably not good enough.

Is there an easy way in MDaemon to see how many connections connect via TLS versus not?

Also can you speak to the HIPAA compliant section of your website? It looks to me that MDaemon needs an additional piece of software to be compliant. (Another discussion I was having!)

@scottalanmiller said in How to Require TLS for Outbound SMTP Connections with MDaemon:

@BRRABill said in How to Require TLS for Outbound SMTP Connections with MDaemon:

Also can you speak to the HIPAA compliant section of your website? It looks to me that MDaemon needs an additional piece of software to be compliant. (Another discussion I was having!)

He can't because software is not HIPAA compliant conceptually. It is how it is used. There is no HIPAA requirements strictly for email, so there is no way to certify software in that manner.

At a simpler level, consider paper. Is paper HIPAA compliant? No, it's just paper. How you use that paper, store it, destroy it, etc. determines if the use of paper was HIPAA compliant.

HIPAA certifies verbs (how things are done) not nouns (things used.)

Paper CAN be HIPAA compliant. It can also NOT be.

@brad_altn The argument here is over this page:
http://www.altn.com/email-encryption/

I contend that it is saying MD cannot be used in a HIPAA compliant situation without the use of the additional software.

@scottalanmiller said in AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month:

What OS did you start with?

Have to tweak my question, do you?

@scottalanmiller said in AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month:

@BRRABill said in AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month:

@scottalanmiller said in AWS announces virtual private servers starting at $5 a month:

What OS did you start with?

Have to tweak my question, do you?

I honestly thought that you were asking about the application layer.

That's because you think like, well, YOU!

@sn said in Virtual Data Room recommendations:

I am using Citrix ShareFile service at the moment and I would like to know what others are using out there.
(I have been using ShareFile for 4-5 years but thinking of switching to something better due to its limitations when it comes to auditing and reporting)

What kind of auditing and reporting are you looking for?

@scottalanmiller said in How to Require TLS for Outbound SMTP Connections with MDaemon:

@brad_altn said in How to Require TLS for Outbound SMTP Connections with MDaemon:

I don't know why I didn't think of this right away. Must not have had my morning coffee yet, but MDaemon has a feature that allows you to specify which hosts or IPs require the use of STARTTLS. It's located under Security | Security Settings | SSL & TLS | STARTTLS Required List.

Cool, is there a way to specify "all"? Being able to list some is definitely a good start, though.

This is what was replied to me on the MD forum...

*Are you wanting this for your own users only, or for your own users plus all mail coming into your server from non-local senders?

Unless you are using a gateway or DomainPOP to retrieve incoming mail from non-local senders anything you do to try and prevent your own users from sending without encryption will affect incoming mail as well. And there's not a way to force servers not under your control to use encryption if they are not configured to use it.

Here are a couple of suggestions, but without knowing more about your environment, I can't say that it will work for you.

1. If all of your own users are going to be sending and receiving from the local network (on site, versus someone working from home or a hotel or a coffee shop out in the world), you could enable SSL, STARTTLS, and STLS under Security | Security Settings | SSL & TLS, and enabled the dedicated ports option as well. Then your users would all have to configure their mail clients to use the dedicated ports. Then you can block the non-SSL ports on your internal network, and only allow connections from outside your network to the MDaemon server.

2. If you're in a position where you can say "If you don't use encryption, I don't want mail send from your server" you could try setting a wildcard entry in the STARTTLS Required List under Security | Security Settings | SSL & TLS. For IPv4 it's ...
   I'm not certain what the wildcard for all IPv6 addresses would be, and I don't have a test environment using it set up at the moment. If you need that, let me know and I will look into it for you. I don't really recommend this option at this time, it's likely to cause you headaches.

If you don't want to force all non-local incoming mail to use encryption, and you have users who connect to your server from outside your network, trying to force them to use encryption while letting non-local servers still connect without is difficult, and ends up being more a matter of user education & company policy than being technology based,

If you can share more about what your environment is like I might be able to give more suggestions.*