@htbase said in Starting a Shared Web Hosting Company:
If you would like, we can get you access to an aws instance with OCH and you can spin off a server there and start creating VMs in it with OCH
The tiniest instance, really I'm just interested in playing with the interface and seeing how to manage it. I'll dropped you a chat with my email if you want to take further.
@Brains said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:
@Nic said in Asus RoG Rocking the WebRoot Secure Anywhere:
re: no internet - Webroot defaults to monitoring any new exe using the local heuristics until it can get back online. That way if it's determined to be malicious it can roll back any changes that new process has made.
seems like a nice compromise on a cloud AV
Oh Webroot is an amazing product. If you are thinking of getting it, do try it out and give it a run for it's money.
Lots of license management programs out there.
It depends if you want the software to scan the machines as well to detect quantities and specific product keys installed.
LanSweeper is a very good tool for this.
http://www.lansweeper.com/
@travisdh1 said in Ubiquiti ER-X Initial Firmware Update:
Complained about not enough space available. Fine, uploaded through the gui, and it worked fine.
Wait...is this 1 time when GUI worked better than CLI?
@Joel said in Licensing query...:
HI Guys
When I say database server, it will be used for users to log in (approx 10/15 at the same time) to access Excel/Access and work with a bespoke database.
In my brain, I'd ask why not have the clients connect into the database with excel and access from their machines and so the database server is literally a file-share for excel/access. The users would probably prefer not to be in RDS mode and you save money on the RDS licensing/support/setup.
If something silly like Access plays up for 1 user, and then you need to repair the install (does happen) instead of isolating it to 1 users machine you now have to kick out all 10 users.
@wirestyle22 said in Am I making a bad decision?:
@Jason If you are unhappy in your current job and you find a job with a reliable company (not something that just started up) making the same or more money then just go.
I've seen older companies than mine collapse and blow up in a spectacular way. 
Plus there are benefits as well as drawbacks to a company of any age so don't write off a category, test the company on the merits. The company might only be 3 months old, but if it was started up by someone with a portfolio of 20 successful companies, that's a big lure.
@Carnival-Boy said in To Password Protect a network folder or not:
Although if I come in to work tomorrow and find my laptop has been stolen and there's a note on my desk that says "I win, love from Breffni", you'll have taken the challenge too far.
All is fair in love, war and hacking contests.
@Carnival-Boy said in To Password Protect a network folder or not:
Is that your long-winded way of admitting defeat in my challenge
As a good politician says, we will not accept defeat but we are considering all of our options in this matter.
One of them involves @scottalanmiller doing me a favour....so please hold.
@cakeis_not_alie said
...but the stuff in this thread just isn't what SimpliVity should be yelled at for. Some times I'm on the side of the mob, raising a pitchfork and demanding vendors stop being dumbasses. This time, I find myself having to side with a vendor and saying "guys...you're off the mark".
I'm not convinced personally.
Any business wanting to enter the SMB space, who wants to generate profit and take it seriously, needs to research their market and the concept of hidden pricing/deal negotiations does not exist in the SMB world so it is a justifiable flaw they were called out on.
I'm of the opinion that if a vendor wants me to take their product into my inner sanctum of clients, Yes I'm going to challenge and question what you do and how you do it, if the fit is not good then we move onto somebody else but there are quite a few vendors who I am happy with.
@cakeis_not_alie said in Simplivity - anyone use them?:
@Breffni-Potter Who says SimpliVity wants to enter the SMB space? Anyone telling you that is nuts.
Everyone else who plays down at our level...well...Groucho Marx said it best:
I wouldn't want to be part of any club that would have me as a member.
Well, they said they wanted to enter the SMB space.
The definition of SMB is really easy, They might be a 15 seat office or a 95 seat office but I've seen the 15 seat office turn over more money and generate more profit 10X that of larger offices. So number of staff is not a good measure.
I don't really get your last statement though, are you saying that any company wanting to enter the SMB space must be crap? What about all the other players making lots of money from it.
Bit of a bump.
Added a pair of drives, everything is running on a single raid-10 array, 1.3TB usable storage.
XenServer has been replaced with an eval install of 2016 Server for now. I've really liked XenServer but parking it to one side for now.
@Danp said in Lab/Demo/Training Server, Refurb:
@Breffni-Potter said in Lab/Demo/Training Server, Refurb:
XenServer has been replaced with an eval install of 2016 Server for now. I've really liked XenServer but parking it to one side for now.
Why didn't you install the 2016 server as a VM under XS?
I did that when I first got the system.
I'm messing about with 2016 as a host with Hyper-v.
@scottalanmiller said
- Did you not use available resources as there are thousands of posts on Spiceworks about this topic, more than any other topic.
- How did you manage to avoid the common knowledge around such a basic, and loudly discussed, topic?
- How is your knowledge outdated by nearly a decade?
Most of the world does not use Spiceworks.
A lot of IT admins choose not to engage in IT communities.
PPTP VPN on 2012 R2 server installs is acceptable to some.
Drops mic, walks away
@scottalanmiller said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
@Breffni-Potter said in I Would Fire Someone For....:
Spiceworks is a bubble. I know a lot of guys who find answers to it on google but never sign up and engage or post, I know more who think "oh yeah that free app"
And you'd be happy employing those people?
Nope, never said that.
I wouldn't not employ someone based on no community involvement, I spent most of my time in other communities but nothing specifically for IT because I was surrounded by other tech guys.
@scottalanmiller said
Hyper-V encourages licensing problems, total confusion as to what is running, more licensing overhead confusion that it takes effort to run XS at all.
Let's take this to another thread.
I don't see how replacing the underlying FREE hypervisor fixes Microsoft licensing nightmares. if there is confusion for some people, the material is out there for research.
So the SAM says by going the XS route.
For me, I disagree because once you've gotten past a certain point of practice & knowledge, you can almost sleep-walk through hypervisor deployments.
@Carnival-Boy said in Paying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10:
What if they couldn't upgrade because their software applications didn't support Windows 10?
Or because they didn't have the resources available to perform the upgrades (I don't believe it was a trivial task).
Which is why everyone had the option to upgrade the machine, claim the digital entitlement for that system, then downgrade back to 7. If getting Windows 10 for free was not a business priority and other things took precedence then they now have to pay for it.
@Carnival-Boy For me personally I'd go for a hardware refresh which will have the new OEM license with the machine anyway.
The cost of a retail key is not worth it for a machine which is X years old anyway. If you have volume licensing then that's a different story.
@scottalanmiller said in Breaking Bitlocker:
@Breffni-Potter said in Breaking Bitlocker:
Instead of giving the whole method, I'll give you the prevention.
Disable hibernation. Do not let any machine have hibernation mode if you want to use Bitlocker.
If an attacker gains ahold of the machine whilst in hibernate, they can and will unlock all the data.
We disable that, normally, for other reasons. That would protect us a bit, just by chance.
Most people leave their machines in hibernate or sleep mode though.
In essence, if the machine was logged into and in a powered on state. It is vulnerable to an attacker.
Another reason for shutting machines down completely.
@scottalanmiller said in Breaking Bitlocker:
@Breffni-Potter said in Breaking Bitlocker:
@scottalanmiller said in Breaking Bitlocker:
@Breffni-Potter said in Breaking Bitlocker:
Instead of giving the whole method, I'll give you the prevention.
Disable hibernation. Do not let any machine have hibernation mode if you want to use Bitlocker.
If an attacker gains ahold of the machine whilst in hibernate, they can and will unlock all the data.
We disable that, normally, for other reasons. That would protect us a bit, just by chance.
Most people leave their machines in hibernate or sleep mode though.
In essence, if the machine was logged into and in a powered on state. It is vulnerable to an attacker.
Another reason for shutting machines down completely.
Right, although it is important to note that it is not Bitlocker being broken, it's Bitlocker not being used.
Mmmm, I'm not sure about that definition.
To the end user, Bitlocker is a transparent service and a lot of IT admins would assume that a Bitlocker encrypted system is not vulnerable based on a switched on machine.
The Bitlocker docs don't say 'we don't protect you under scenario XYZ" so how would someone find out about that easy exploit?