@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

I know it isn't top of the line but I got a Pixel 3a XL and am very pleased with it. I got it for 400$ and it blows the pants off my 700-800$ phones.

Of the same era, or are you talking about a 7-800 phone from a year or two or more ago?

A year or two ago. Although from some of the benchmarks I've seen it does decent again phones from its generation.

I would fully expect a current phone to trash a few years old phone... and a $7-800 few years old phone is still barely top of the line compared to the prices of Samsung/Apple (not saying the hardware wasn't matching/beating them.. I just know the price is still lower than those two, which makes me at minimum ask - where the specs of that 7-800 device the same or better than apple/samsung?)

Yeah it was a top of the line Moto device.

At this point I'm just rambling... but that doesn't tell me anything - I know nothing about Moto's.. where they spec'ed the same as samsung top of the line at that time? did reviews basically say they performed the same?

Yes.

@wrx7m said in EMC VXRail:

@scottalanmiller said in EMC VXRail:

Starwind

IIRC, at some point you said that starwind was good at 2 nodes, but 3 was way too complex. Also, how much overhead does running starwind produce?

It's too complex without additional networking infrastructure. They have a 3-node system and appliances available. I'm sure @KOOLER can comment.

@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

I know it isn't top of the line but I got a Pixel 3a XL and am very pleased with it. I got it for 400$ and it blows the pants off my 700-800$ phones.

Of the same era, or are you talking about a 7-800 phone from a year or two or more ago?

A year or two ago. Although from some of the benchmarks I've seen it does decent again phones from its generation.

I would fully expect a current phone to trash a few years old phone... and a $7-800 few years old phone is still barely top of the line compared to the prices of Samsung/Apple (not saying the hardware wasn't matching/beating them.. I just know the price is still lower than those two, which makes me at minimum ask - where the specs of that 7-800 device the same or better than apple/samsung?)

Yeah it was a top of the line Moto device.

@Dashrender said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

@coliver said in Introducing MeshCentral on SAMIT as a Remote Access and Support Tool for the SMB IT Department:

I know it isn't top of the line but I got a Pixel 3a XL and am very pleased with it. I got it for 400$ and it blows the pants off my 700-800$ phones.

Of the same era, or are you talking about a 7-800 phone from a year or two or more ago?

A year or two ago. Although from some of the benchmarks I've seen it does decent again phones from its generation.

Extremely common.

I know it isn't top of the line but I got a Pixel 3a XL and am very pleased with it. I got it for 400$ and it blows the pants off my 700-800$ phones.

@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

I've been watching The Orville. I never thought I would enjoy an episodic series again, but I keep coming back to it.

I need to catch up on that again. It was really good.

I've been watching The Tick on Amazon Prime... it's so goofy but it's really a fun show.

Yep a reverse proxy. Traefik, Nginx, or HAProxy would do the trick.

@DustinB3403 said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:

@syko24 said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:

@DustinB3403 said in Is SMB 1.0 more vulnerable at the client level or server level:

Why in God's green earth would you deploy XP today? Or would you continue to operate Windows XP?

The system it runs has an $80,000 camera on it

Also this seems insane that the customer has an $80,000 camera, but can't or won't purchase an updated system to run it.

This sounds like scientific/educational equipment. Most likely that vendor either doesn't exist anymore or the system update is to just buy another 80,000$ camera.

@Dashrender said in Meeting software - how do you handle it?:

We aren't the ones hosting..

But you are choosing to do business with a vendor that doesn't know how to actually have a meeting. Seems like this is a bit of a joke.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

Started watching the second season of Carmen Sandiego that released today.

There was a first season?

Yep, it was very enjoyable.

@LJ said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@notverypunny I would love Firefox because many patrons ask for it but in the past I was unable to get it to update automatically. Has that changed or do you know a work around?

https://chocolatey.org/

does the history command help you at all?

@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@coliver said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

Yeah I haven't referred to them at all.

The process for setting up the google restrictions you linked is from the google administration side. . .

Oh, I missed that. I thought that was the enterprise settings available via the Chrome ADMX. I don't have this in production at the moment.

@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@coliver said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@coliver he would love to set this up via the google admin console, but he's not the administrator. The schools are. So he needs an alternative that is either local to every workstation or some restoration process.

Huh, I thought @LJ was the owner of these machines? It sounds like @LJ has been pushing other policies.

@coliver said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@coliver he would love to set this up via the google admin console, but he's not the administrator. The schools are. So he needs an alternative that is either local to every workstation or some restoration process.

Huh, I thought @LJ was the owner of these machines? It sounds like @LJ has been pushing other policies.

@LJ is in charge of the library computers, not the google accounts that the students are using.

Yeah I haven't referred to them at all.

@DustinB3403 said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@coliver he would love to set this up via the google admin console, but he's not the administrator. The schools are. So he needs an alternative that is either local to every workstation or some restoration process.

Huh, I thought @LJ was the owner of these machines? It sounds like @LJ has been pushing other policies.

@LJ said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@coliver I have the setting to remove browsing history but apparently that setting is overridden also.

https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/?policy=BrowserSignin

You'll want to disable that via the Google Chrome group policies. Make sure you're pushing these policies from the Computer settings piece.

@LJ said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@coliver I use a ton of settings to lock down Chrome and they have been working great until this school year started. Evidently several of the local school districts are using some sort of Chrome administration and assigning students gmail accounts associated with the school.

G Suite for Education. It's really common.

@LJ said in How can I prevent student logins to Google from overriding the Library's public PC restrictions?:

@coliver yes but this is a public library system. We have to assume that they are logging in to do school work or view assignments etc.

They can still do that. But this will prevent them from logging into the "Google Account" feature that Chrome has, not the G Suite websites themselves. You can also set it to remove browsing history when they close the window which will remove the tokens that hold the login.