I purchased and used an IP KMV back in like 2008 for the purpose of dealing with user computer issues at a remote site. This was prior to having ScreenConnect. Even back then I used iDRAC Enterprise for servers.

It was cheaper then TeamViewer, and let me actually reinstall the OS remotely. Since I had a Windows 7 USB stick on site also.

Today? ScreenConnect for everything, and I ship new systems. I would never use something like this today.

@siringo said in Another RDS server?:

@Pete-S yes, there's one other VM. It has 8vCPU's 16GB of startup RAM and uses dynamic memory.

Aside from your runaway program eating memory, this is a problem. You are causing a wait state for CPU availability.

What was drilled into me back when I moved to virtualization is that before the Hypervisor can send the job to the real hardware, enough real cores had to be available to match the number used by the VM.

So each VM must have clock cycles for all 8 real cores available before they can process things.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Another RDS server?:

@travisdh1 said in Another RDS server?:

While you can assign all cores to every virtualhorrible idea. The virtual machines will be doing next to nothing but waiting on each other to finish background processes.

I did not mean to say that we have multiple VMs with all cores assigned.
We have one VM on one host, and we assign all cores to it - is that OK?

IT will not have bottlenecks (generally) but it is still a horrible practice.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Another RDS server?:

you always "lose" one core?

Also, if you are spec'ing your system this closely, you likely have other design issues.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Another RDS server?:

We tested speed on our 4 vCPU VMs against Vultr 4 vCPU VM, and ours are much faster (50% if I recall correctly)

That is a waste of a test. It means nothing.

I have been coding (full time developer) and scripting since 1995 and I have never once wanted a feature like that.

@Dashrender said in One man IT shop looking for additional help options when needed. Hire a MSP?:

@JaredBusch said in One man IT shop looking for additional help options when needed. Hire a MSP?:

@Dashrender said in One man IT shop looking for additional help options when needed. Hire a MSP?:

An MSP might not be what you want, but an ITSP (IT Service Provider) should definitely cover the bill.

An MSP is the one thing you absolutely do not want.
ITSP is where you a want to be.

We have a whole thread on here someplace about this.

By pure verbiage I agree, but there are some MSPs out there that likely could work within the confines of the OPs request.

Then they are not an MSP.

@dbeato said in Reset Synology admin account:

See more here, which is what I have followed when I do the reset like you did on the back of the device
https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/help/DSM/AdminCenter/file_share_key_manager

That does not tell me certain. The key store should not be on the device but it can be.

And even if it was on an external usb that is disconnected. Synology will continue to boot as long as the internal key is there. But doing an admin reset removes that

@dbeato said in Outlook 2016 (O365) on Mac not connecting setting up the email account:

We deal with this frequently, check the activation user for Office and also have you cleared the cache on Outlook or Created a new Outlook profile?
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/manage-profiles-or-identities-in-outlook-for-mac-fed2a955-74df-4a24-bef6-78a426958c4c

There was nothing to clear. It was a brand new install. And the user logged in from office 365 account and click the download button from her account. So she is certainly licensed correct.

You can revert things individually in the GUI. That is it.

Not even by folder. There is no revert options at the folder level.

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@JaredBusch said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

@Mario-Jakovina said in Nextcloud - how to restore many deleted files:

2. We lost few subfolders (>700files) that we can't find in "Deleted files" which is terrible experience for us, and we will reconsider our usage of Nextcloud (I plan to open another topic for that). We recovered from backup.

Options:

1. Files are in another folder, moved by random_user_03, thus not in trash.
2. Files were deleted, and trash emptied by malicious_user_06.

What I'm afraid of is:
Option 3. - Some bug in Nextcloud that deleted our files or lost track of files that users accidentaly moved...

Nothing would delete something a user moved.
As for lost track? That is easy there are CLI commands to rescan files.
Never had to use it because of user error before. Only because I was administratively changing things.

@jt1001001 said in PoE Switches that support 24V fixed and standard PoE+ 802.3at:

@jaredbusch How is the Omada stuff? Local club got a coupe AP's they want me to install for them.

Beyond getting the controller setup and the AP adopted. I have not done anything.

It was annoying to figure out that I had to adopt the APs and then manually upgrade the firmware before they were actually usable.

These were all in place in the warehouse rafters when I walked in, just no controller set up. I would never recommend tp-link for business.

@eddiejennings said in Basic Ubiquiti Network:

but it seems like a trivial thing to just run two VMs, one for Unifi stuff and the other EdgeMax stuff.

They can run on the same VM. Just you need the web interface for one on a different port. never dug that deep as I had two VM's because they were grown over time as Ubiquiti added the functionality.

@scottalanmiller said in Basic Ubiquiti Network:

@eddiejennings said in Basic Ubiquiti Network:

@jaredbusch said in Basic Ubiquiti Network:

@eddiejennings said in Basic Ubiquiti Network:

The Dream Machine looks interesting, but I'm not inpressed with it also being an 8-port switch.

I have not looked at it yet, but are they fixed switch ports, or assignable? The ER-X is an example of this.

The documentation I've seen doesn't tell me much. It seems like the switch ports create just a plain layer 2 switch. They aren't assignable interfaces like the old EdgeRouter Lite's eth0, 1 and 2.

I believe that to be true.

The old ER Lite were software bridged only and not something you ever wanted to do. Horrible performance killer.

The ER-X and ER-4 have an actual switch chip. You don't have to make each port use it, but it is there.

So you could make eth0 be WAN and eth1 through eth3 be members of switch0

Not even something I would ever use in a home. If a home needs more than a simple combined router, it needs to be treated seriously.

Ubiquiti makes the AmpliFi line for the home sector. If that unit is too limiting, then go with real gear not this.

Has anyone used the current version of 3CX in the last year-ish?

I was recently talking to someone that likes the system and was curious.

@Pete-S said in Recent 3CX experiences:

The standard version is free for the first year and free forever if you only need 8 simultaneous calls.

It has other restrictions also. Or did last time I deep dived the free version.

Also, I have already ordered this service for my house.

So depending on your hurry, I'll know soon.

@stacksofplates said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@stacksofplates said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@stacksofplates said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@scottalanmiller said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@jaredbusch said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@travisdh1 said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

@obsolesce said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

I may have to just go with Spectrum for now. Those latency numbers are a bit high. I assume the 5g would be better, but not sure if that's in the area yet.

5G is not a real thing in the US yet, tho it's likely to be in your area a lot quicker than the rest of the US.

Rural Ohio is not “America” only a small part of it. 5G has been rolling out for more than a year.

No, he is correct. The "5G" rolling out in the US is actually an improved 4G. True 5G doesn't have equipment available in the US yet. We work with an ISP and literally no actual 5G equipment is available on the US market yet. Because of the Huawei ban, the original source of 5G is cut off and to cover up that mistake, the US allowed higher speed 4G to be rebranded as 5G in the US so that the country wasn't up in arms about it, but like how they allowed 3G to be branded as 4G in the past. They changed the "G" from a tech term into a federally regulated branding term.

That's why the speeds everyone is seeing are standard old 4G speeds from the rest of the world and nothing like what 5G can do. There's a fake American 5G rolling out quickly, we have it hear in Dallas. But it's a mediocre 4G speed by global standards and using what every other country calls 4G because it's a 4th Gen technology. 5G in the US is 4th gen, that's why our 5G is slower than eastern Europe's 4G from half a decade ago.

Verizon has 5G mmWave deployed in quite a few cities. There still is low-band being branded as 5G but there is real 5G in many cities.

That's not what I've been hearing, but I'm behind on listening to my tech news. As of the end of last year, mmWave is still in only a few spots in select cities. Those spots being within ~100' of the transceiver, not even enough to call a single block covered.

The rest is all low-band being rebranded as 5G like you said.

It's like 65 or so. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.androidauthority.com/5g-cities-us-1105898/amp/

I count 65 as quite a few. In comparison to all cities it's not much, but it's more than a small amount.

I just glanced at that report, what I didn't see mentioned is WHERE 5G mmWave is available in those cities. IE: New York city only had a couple 100' zones where you could get it last I knew. Technically it's available, realistically you just won't get it. I'm sure the companies are working to change that fast as they can, I could see it being actually useful in New York and San Francisco by the end of this year.

However, those results were achieved by practically standing under the 5G nodes. Across the city, the average download speed was a lot slower (but still fast) at 594Mbps.

I take that to mean it's actually across the city. Even still, the argument was it wasnt available in the US which was incorrect.

Correct. T-Mobile also has the mmWave in various cities.

@obsolesce said in Spectrum VS T-mobile home internet:

that's just weird

Umm, that is normal for coax delivery. It is how the modems are designed.