@dashrender said in hot potato workers:
We have an insurance card scanner at each desk. I don't see this changing.
Not sure how to read this response.
TSScan is software not hardware. It will allow a session on an RDP server to see that locally attached twain scanner. But RDP is not an option. (yet!) 
I keep thinking about this. It's the kind of problem I love to tackle.
If the scanner redirector from terminalworks does indeed allow you to use the scanner with you insurance/single use issue, then mandatory roaming profiles may work well for you.
BTW: for some reason, I think the termnalworks software disconnects the link to the scanner if the RDP session goes into a disconnected state. This should work well for insurance/one user issue.
@dashrender said in hot potato workers:
Another idea is and RDS setup.
My biggest concern about this is the scanner. I have no idea if it will work in a multi-user environment like RDS. In fact I doubt it will since it won't work in a multi-user environment like Windows 10.
Have you considered TS Scan by Terminal works? https://www.terminalworks.com/remote-desktop-scanning
We use it for RDP scanning from remote USB scanners and it works great. You can test it for a trial period to see if it will handle multiple clients to one remote scanner. I think it will; one at a time.
@jaredbusch said in hot potato workers:
Force Edge to always use porn mode. That should help.
Helpful Hint: Don't google: "Edge Porn Mode"
@eleceng said in What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as VPN to highly secure networks.:
What are your thoughts on Using Zerotier as a VPN to highly secure networks?
How will you be configuring access to the network assets and resources? Devices at the other end of a VPN are only as secure as their environment. Be sure to consider all protections before making your decision.
Sometime HR problems with employees are your biggest security risk. For example, an employee who leave their laptop unattended in a Panera and their password is on a sticky note. Sounds silly, but it happens. When this happens, your very Secure VPN is not so secure!
Just ran in to it again this morning. Here are the waiting updates. This update will wait forever, until someone clicks "Download and Install"
Once installed the printing issue was resolved.
@jaredbusch said in GPO printers missing:
Which one specifically?
We allowed the "Feature Update Windows 10, version 21H1" to finish and the two issues described resolved themselves after the reboot.
We just had a similar issue across several customers. It was a Windows Update issue.
For us, in all cases, there was a window update that needed to run, not normal ones that run unattended, but the "Feature Update Windows 10, version 21H1". Once run, and rebooted, all printers and ports returned.
Some users lost all GPO delivered printers and some users had all of the Ports disappear from the Ports tab in Print Server Properties:
Click on a printer, then:
@rojoloco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Every house for sale around here gets snatched up by companies for rental property. Quick lipstick reno, $2k a month for a 3/2. Which is why my house has doubled in value in 6 years of ownership. My neighbor turned down a cash offer (as is, no inspection) of nearly 300k, probably triple what he paid 12 years ago.
We're into Short-Term Rental Arbitrage (AKA AirBNB Arbitrage). It works really well for passive income.
@jclambert said in ATA sp112 behind Sonicwall to Skyetel:
I never had an issue with Cisco ATAs connected to a cloud service behind Sonicwall devices. I don't recall setting anything up, but I am curious enough to review my setup notes to confirm.
We have not either. We have many Cisco SPA ATAs in service. All of them behind Sonicwalls. This is the only one connected to Skyetel.
Turning SIP Transformations on in the Sonicwall made it so the SPA122 would register with Skyetel, however it killed the phones that register with VitalPBX.
The solution turned out to be using a Firewall Rule to turn on SIP Transformations for ONLY the ATA. All is good now.
Here is the SIP Transformation turned on and set for Rule Based
And here is the Rule:
I have ATAs setup with other providers behind Sonicwall Firewalls without issue, so this has me stumped about how to make it work.
I was on the phone with Skyetel support for a couple of hours, and they were not much help. They said the Sonicwall is not configured right, which I already new was a possibility.
The ATA will not register to Skyetel when behind the Sonicwall.
I think it comes down to this:
The ATA's outgoing port is something in the 13k+ range and it goes to port 5060 at Skyetel. It appears Skyetel answers back to the ATA on 5060, even though it sees the traffic coming in on the high port. Of course, there's no path back to the ATA on 5060, it's on the higher port.
Since Skyetel only answers on 5060, I think I need to force my ATA to send the registration request out on 5060, but I can see how to do that.
I think my options are ATA goes out on 5060, or the Sonicwall NATs it to be so.
The same ATA and same (unchanged) Sonicwall work just fine to other sip providers.
Any thoughts or ideas for me to try?
Thanks.
attn: @JaredBusch
@obsolesce said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
He mentioned his goal was to learn new things. It's fair to assume the purpose of that is to broaden their skillset, therefore improving their career.
Yes. I see that now. It's still so sad this conversation went south before he stated that (or at all).
@travisdh1 said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
If you want to host email, why would you use the worst platform possible to find? Why not Zimbra for example?
NOWHERE did he state what his reasons were for wanting to do this.
Why would you suggest he move to Zimbra (or others) when you have no idea what he is trying to accomplish?
Too many people jump to conclusions, and they are wrong most of the time.
@obsolesce said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
while others will see it as questioning motives and pointing people in a better direction to improve their career and broaden their skillset to become more useful in the market.
But NOWHERE did he indicate that was his goal.
There's rarely a day that goes by that I don't write a batch script, cmd script or powershell script. All of it is possible from having learned the basic structure of command scripting.
If I have to do anything to more than two computers that can be scripted, I script it.
I would much rather have my techs learn how to install MSExchange with a version that has been around long enough to be able to find the answer to the issue online; than have them spinning their wheels trying to solve a problem caused by a recent windows patch that no one has encountered before.
@irj said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
No that's terrible practice and not a modern or efficient way to do anything. Powershell or Bash (neither of which is new) would actually. Ake sense. If you're using batch in 2021, you might as well use a sun dial or high noon to tell time.
This is like saying you don't need to learn long division because you have a cellphone with a calculator.
You need to know long division.
@irj said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
@jasgot said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
If someone were asking how to write dos batch files, which is decades old, it is still a good basis for understanding and developing scripts; that will help with future learning.
No that's terrible practice and not a modern or efficient way to do anything. Powershell or Bash (neither of which is new) would actually. Ake sense. If you're using bash in 2021, you might as well use a sun dial or high noon to tell time.
Well, you'll never convince me that dismissing the basis and history of any type of knowledge is wise.
it was said in Exchange Environment - Lab:
Why are you trying to learn how out dated technology?
I'm curious, why is this the de-facto "go to" question when people don't feel like helping, but still want to hear themselves talk?
Maybe... this is what he has laying around his lab, AND he wants to learn?
Why is it usually a problem that one person is learning something years after someone else has?
I just don't get it.
If someone were asking how to write dos batch files, which is decades old, it is still a good basis for understanding and developing scripts; that will help with future learning.
@dashrender said in Routing from LAN/Sonicwall to Comcast DHCP Client:
If those are the only people with access - why not just put it on that LAN?
Other equipment it talks to on another network; and we do not have access to that other equipment.