So finally got a clear answer on this with 5Nine. The 5Nine Manager free was removed for a while but it is back now. You have a 14 day trial and then it goes back to the free version. These are some features you can use with the free version:

• 1 node support.
• Up to 6 VMs managmeent
• Console Access
• GUI
• Summary of Host and VMs
• Create, Edit and Remove VMs

If you want to have the paid version you will be paying per 2 CPU on each Hypervisor regardless if you have one or two CPUs.

If you need to purchase the Enterprise edition is based on 16 cores packs regardless of what servers CPU cores you have.

Hope this help anyone there.

SonicWall physical firewall appliances running certain versions of SonicOS contain vulnerabilities in code utilized for remote management. At this time, there is no indication that the discovered vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild, however:

SonicWall STRONGLY advises to apply the SonicOS patch immediately.

IF you cannot update immediately, as a mitigation please restrict SonicWall management access (HTTPS/HTTP/SSH) to trusted sources and/or disable management access from untrusted Internet sources, then apply the SonicOS patch as soon as possible.

Note: SonicWall will communicate any future updates via this Security Advisory and SonicWall PSIRT Advisory SNWLID-2019-0009.
https://www.sonicwall.com/support/knowledge-base/?sol_id=190717234810906

@gjacobse Thanks! The Trip to the Urgent care was great in the sense that it gave strength to my wife.

USMT would have been great for this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/usmt/usmt-overview
But this should work
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2454362/renaming-a-user-account-does-not-automatically-change-the-profile-path
or
https://morgansimonsen.com/2008/06/10/how-to-manually-transfer-a-user-profile-from-one-user-to-another-2/

All upgraded here.

Here at SW met @Texkonc and @NetworkNerd

@thwr said in Disk imaging tools:

Want to move a fair amount of desktops from HDDs to SSDs, everything Windows.

Please note: I can't reinstall the hosts at this point because there is no software deployment or base image available and I don't have the time to build something myself at the moment. We use a lot of very specific scientific and engineering tools, which are not covered by any out of the box solution.

What's everyone's favorite disk imaging / cloning tool? A plus would be a tool which is able to image to a smaller sized partition (e.g. 1TB disk that only uses 150GB, imaged to a 250GB SSD.

I have been using Clonezilla for years but when it comes to big to smaller Drives I have been using Veeam Agent to backup fully the machine and restore to a new hard drive.

@dustinb3403 which is still not just a Microsoft thing, any other platform can have this happen but yes it is a vulnerability but lets not make it so bad like we haven't seen it before.

Upgrading Ubiquiti AP Firmware now across all our offices.

I wanted to share what I have implemented on a Microsoft Windows Environment with KnowBe4 Second Chance. The application works well with Outlook 2013 and up but with Windows 10 and Outlook 2010 the application does not open any links when prompted. So after digging with many changes, I created the following GPO to be able to push it to all our Windows 10 machines.

Based on this article:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3094186/you-are-prompted-to-specify-internet-explorer-when-you-click-a-link-in

Hope this helps anyone.

@animal said in Soft Skills for the IT Pro:

There's been some really good conversations here (thank you all) and what I think could be really interesting is this... Maybe IT people need some soft skills, but maybe there's a need to show the users we support why we appear like we don't have soft skills at times. Maybe, just maybe, it appears that we're lacking in soft skills when really it's the users that are being condescending.

To that point I wonder if it's worth it to create some videos around user interaction with IT. Like a couple of scenarios from both points of view. One where it looks like the IT pro is talking down to the user, and the other where the IT pro is really just trying to help. Hmmmm

It is always a struggle because no one wants to be proven wrong, unfortunately with computer problems anyone using a computer will see it as their fault when something happens and then it becomes a blame game. The user doesn't want to be blamed, the IT person does not want to get blamed. You fix the issue and show how you fixed it and it might come across as condescending or superior. However that is the way things appear to the other end.

It is like me getting upset at things by the mere fact of words, sometimes I have gotten upset at @scottalanmiller or @JaredBusch by words said that are just that. It might look like an attack but in reality is just a statement and I need to work better at that.

@rojoloco No, no need for nuke and pave. You can reset it with mongodb
mongo --port 27117 ace --eval "db.admin.find().forEach(printjson);"

I setup a Zimbra VM in Google Cloud Compute as below:

Firewall rules as below now:

Login to your CentOS 7 Server
Run the following command

yum -y install unzip net-tools sysstat openssh-clients perl-core libaio nmap-ncat wget libreoffice-headless libreoffice bind-utils libstdc++.so.6

Setup the Hostname of the server

hostnamectl set-hostname mail

Setup local hostname for external server

echo "10.0.4.x mail.domain.com mail " >> /etc/hosts

Download Zimbra Installer

 wget https://files.zimbra.com/downloads/8.8.6_GA/zcs-8.8.6_GA_1906.RHEL7_64.20171130041047.tgz

Extract and access the installer

tar xzvf zcs-8.8.6_GA_1906.RHEL7_64.20171130041047.tgz
cd zcs-8.8.6_GA_1906.RHEL7_64.20171130041047

Start the install process

sudo ./install.sh

Go through the installation settings

 Operations logged to /tmp/install.log.y1YeCSI5
Checking for existing installation...
    zimbra-chat...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-drive...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-imapd...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-network-modules-ng...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-ldap...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-logger...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-mta...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-dnscache...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-snmp...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-store...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-apache...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-spell...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-convertd...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-memcached...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-proxy...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-archiving...NOT FOUND
    zimbra-core...NOT FOUND

- Then slect the packages you want to use
Checking for installable packages
Found zimbra-core (local)
Found zimbra-ldap (local)
Found zimbra-logger (local)
Found zimbra-mta (local)
Found zimbra-dnscache (local)
Found zimbra-snmp (local)
Found zimbra-store (local)
Found zimbra-apache (local)
Found zimbra-spell (local)
Found zimbra-convertd (local)
Found zimbra-memcached (repo)
Found zimbra-proxy (local)
Found zimbra-archiving (local)
Found zimbra-chat (repo)
Found zimbra-drive (repo)
Found zimbra-imapd (local)
Found zimbra-network-modules-ng (local)

Use Zimbra's package repository [Y] y
Use internal development repo [N] n
Configuring package repository
Install zimbra-ldap [Y] y
Install zimbra-logger [Y] y
Install zimbra-mta [Y] y
Install zimbra-dnscache [Y] n
Install zimbra-snmp [Y] y
Install zimbra-store [Y] y
Install zimbra-apache [Y] y
Install zimbra-spell [Y] y
Install zimbra-convertd [Y] y
Install zimbra-memcached [Y] y
Install zimbra-proxy [Y] y
Install zimbra-archiving [N] y
Install zimbra-chat [Y] n
Install zimbra-drive [Y] n
Install zimbra-imapd [Y] n

Checking required space for zimbra-core
Checking space for zimbra-store
Checking required packages for zimbra-store

Installing:
    zimbra-core
    zimbra-ldap
    zimbra-logger
    zimbra-mta
    zimbra-snmp
    zimbra-store
    zimbra-apache
    zimbra-spell
    zimbra-convertd
    zimbra-memcached
    zimbra-proxy
    zimbra-archiving


The system will be modified.  Continue? [N] y

Then add the domain you will be using such as domain.com

Select option 6 for setting up the Admin user password

Main menu

  1) Common Configuration:
  2) zimbra-ldap: Enabled
  3) zimbra-logger: Enabled
  4) zimbra-mta: Enabled
  5) zimbra-snmp: Enabled
  6) zimbra-store: Enabled
  +Create Admin User: yes
  +Admin user to create: [email protected]
******* +Admin Password UNSET
  +Anti-virus quarantine user: [email protected]
  +Enable automated spam training: yes
  +Spam training user: [email protected]

  +Non-spam(Ham) training user: [email protected]

  +SMTP host: mail.domain.com
  +Web server HTTP port: 8080
  +Web server HTTPS port: 8443
  +Web server mode: https
  +IMAP server port: 7143
  +IMAP server SSL port: 7993
  +POP server port: 7110
  +POP server SSL port: 7995
  +Use spell check server: yes
  +Spell server URL: http:// mail.domain.com:7780/aspell.php
  +Enable version update checks: TRUE
  +Enable version update notifications: TRUE
  +Version update notification email: [email protected]

  +Version update source email: [email protected]

  +Install mailstore (service webapp): yes
  +Install UI (zimbra,zimbraAdmin webapps): yes
******* +License filename: UNSET

  7) zimbra-spell: Enabled
  8) zimbra-convertd: Enabled
  9) zimbra-proxy: Enabled
  10) Default Class of Service Configuration:
  11) Enable default backup schedule: yes
  s) Save config to file
  x) Expand menu
  q) Quit

Address unconfigured (**) items (? - help)
Type r to return to the Main menu.

The store configuration menu displays.

Select the following from the store configuration menu:

Type 4 to set the Admin Password. The password must be six or more characters. Press Enter.
Type r to return to the Main menu.

• If no other defaults need to be changed, type a to apply the configuration changes. Press Enter

*** CONFIGURATION COMPLETE - press 'a' to apply
Select from menu, or press 'a' to apply config (? - help

- Save configuration data to a file? [Yes]
- Save config in file: [/opt/zimbra/config.16039]
- Saving config in /opt/zimbra/config.16039...done.

The system will be modified - continue? [No] y
Operations logged to /tmp/zmsetup.20160711-234517.log
Setting local config values...done.

Moving /tmp/zmsetup.20160711-234517.log to /opt/zimbra/log

Configuration complete - press return to exit

If behind NAT and on my case, setup MTA to do HostLookup Native

zmprov ms mtaserver.com zimbraMtaLmtpHostLookup native
zmprov mcf zimbraMtaLmtpHostLookup native
zmmtactl restart

Your ZImbra Server should be all set to be accessible and receive emails.

Apparently found out that 5Nine trial goes back to free after 14 days on trial.

@jaredbusch said in Setting up Nginx on CentOS 7 as a reverse proxy:

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As JB said you would name them your subdomain/domain name. subdomain.domain.conf <---not .com

I name mine subdomain.domain.tld.conf

Yeah, mine are the full thing with a .conf at the end.

daerma.com.conf
obelisk.daerma.com.conf

Yeah, when I was writing I typed in the actual web address accidentally.

nc.domain.com instead of nc.domain.conf or nc.domain.com.conf

I did the same today, total facepalm.

You can name them whatever you want. I just personally like this format.

Well, yeah but the configuration looks for all *.conf files which failed on loading the site at first.

Right, you can name it wtf.conf if you want is what I mean.I just personally like the fqdn.conf structure, so that is how I wrote the guide.

The guide was awesome and worked perfectly.

At the water park with the family

@wls-itguy said in Windows 10 updates fail again:

Trying to get an update on a single machine KB4088776 has been problematic for too long. I went the route of manually downloading and it still fails. I shutdown the WU service, renamed the softwaredistribution file, purged Windows update and still nothing gets this update installed. Machine currently sits at 16299.192 which up until today was actually at 16299.125. So I made progress but now can't get .309's update to go.

Any thoughts? BTW, HP Probook 650 G1. BIOS is up to date and all other drivers are as well.

At this point I would do a refresh of WIndows 10 and then reinstall all the apps. Backup first.

I am creating the Podcast for Mangolassi and @scottalanmiller videos. I am using PodSync for this. Let me know if that is a good idea.

Scott Alan Miller's Podcast
http://podsync.net/aeKjpc-bG

Mangolassi Podcast
http://podsync.net/hXpWpd-GG

I can submit to Itunes and others if you want.

Update from ZorinOS

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tech1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Mornin' I'm already stressed out.

Drink more coffee

that's right I haven't even had a cup but traffic was stupid af!

Just finishing my second.

ught, I lost my wallet, almost died. and arrived late to work. Oh and chromium is still on this pc but i did delete the actual file.

Chromium sucks...