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@lakshmana said in Powershell Help Needed Part2:

@dbeato no automate mail from outlook

How does 'Automate mail from outlook' get you to 'PS to select New Topic' on ML?

@scottalanmiller said in Job Title? Not sure here...:

@jimmy9008 said in Job Title? Not sure here...:

'Customer Experience Manager & IT' - could also be a good fit.
Would just saying 'IT' here in the job title enable me to cover that list of areas within my role in the OP?

Would 'Customer Experience Manager' jump out at others as the person who manages the training customers receive, and the helpdesk that the customers use?

Yes, IT is fine, it's adding "systems" that creates the limitations.

So 'Customer Experience Manager & IT' is currently a leading idea...
Alongside, Head of Customer Experience & IT - which I prefer and fits the rest of the titles in the company

Or... add Wizard to the end

@ambarishrh said in Preventive measures against ransomware:

Firewall with the usual security settings DPI, IDS, IPS etc.

Also look at vulnerability testing on the LAN side, and get audit/Pentesting done to verify external threats that you could be open to.

@ambarishrh

Look at SRP. Default to all denied, and only allow what you approve to run.

@emad-r said in Determining resources for hypervisor:

@eddiejennings

Hi,

Noob question cause it is new idea for me

1. How do you make the Fedora VM the firewall, and make the traffic controlled by it ? and you just use firewall-cmd or something with web interface ?

2. Zimbra uses alot of RAM, huh that is normal ?

Each VM would be set to route via the Fedora VM (Firewall) as their gateway. If they all have a gateway pointing to the firewall VM, they will route traffic to that over the virtual network within the host to the Fedora VM, then out of the host via the Fedora VM.

@eddiejennings The colo would more than likely offer a firewall service, at an extra cost, that would sit between your box and the Internet. You could use that as a different option too.

@vhinzsanchez
Yeah, that makes sense. Still doesnt mean the director needs to see how the ACLs are done (user/group) himself.
For example, i'd ask you to give, say, Karen, access to a share. You would go an do it. I'd not care how you do it. Thats your job to figure out.

I could ask you to report and audit for me who has access to what shares, and you would report it. I'd not need to login and check for myself... the Director has trust issues, otherwise you would do it how you see fit and report the permissions when asked.

@scottalanmiller said in MS Volume Licensing/Renewal:

There should be no issues switching providers. I'd recommend PCM, too, we've gotten some seriously good buzz about them. I've got a UK contact, too. Just spoke with him this morning.

Thanks Scott. I expect that we would see no issues, just want to be comfortable about it before giving the go ahead. Generally, do you just provide new supplier with the agreement ID of the existing subscription and they then sort the rest after payment?

Hi folks,

I'm setting up a screen to just play video such as YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Netflix so on so forth. I have initially tried Ubuntu but get issues win Firefox with Flash, HTML5 video.

Any specific flavour that would make a great workstation for browsing and streaming different types of video online?

Best,
Jim

Can you not just block the address(es)?

@wrx7m said in PRTG Alternative...:

@jimmy9008 - So you are trying to categorize "types" of downtime?

Yes. And with ability to then add/remove some types to see different reports. For example, 0.0087% of downtime was line issue. 0.0045% was a bad release by development. We may exclude the latter from the report as it's not the fault of the infrastructure team, and for example, should not affect their yearly bonus. (As an example).

@stacksofplates said in PRTG Alternative...:

I'll see if Alertmanager has tag abilities for alerts. I know there are comments but not sure if you can sort by anything.

Having devs be able to change services in prod sounds like fun....

It is indeed. They are supposed to deploy to develop, test, staging, then live. But sometimes they will just make a mistake etc. It's the same as an admin accidentally restarting the working server they are RDPd in to.

As far as the infrastructure team care, the OS and hardware and networking are under their remit. Any service Dev needs in a server to make the product work is Devs choice. They also have the choice to restart their services under their remit. They just don't care that doing so perhaps affects another teams bonus.

For example, they should be telling us when a deployment is planned so we can add planned maintenance for that time, but often forget. (Yes that's all a business problem, but it's still my problem as I can't currently prove using PRTG that downtime should be excluded from the team as I can't rerun the stats after the event)

@wrx7m said in PRTG Alternative...:

@jimmy9008 - Not ideal, but you could include a screenshot or log of the total downtime from PRTG in the helpscout and classify it as dev issue.

It's quite a work around. Would be better with one system entirely.

169.x.x.x shouts out that the VM cant reach a DHCP server. If the vSwitch is using the active interface, and allows guest VMs to share the adapter, i'd check if my DHCP server is ok, on the same network, has IPs available etc. The host would be static so thats why that would be working as it was manually configured.

Hi folks,

We have a Dell RPS720 for our N2048 Switch. I can find specs online, but cannot seem to find anything about how long the UPS will last on load. Any I just missing something obvious here or a calculation that I need to perform?

The UPS is the 720, as in this document: PDFDoc

We are using one N2048 switch and the UPS can power four (we just only have one switch).

I can contact Dell but thought somebody here may know first, I prefer this community. Any thoughts?

This seems to be the relevant data for the model, but I cant see a runtime (I guess its a calculation that is needed):

Input Voltage Universal input– 90 to 264 VAC
Nominal input– 15 to 230 VAC.
Input Frequency Range 47 to 63 Hz
Max. Input AC Current 2.3 A max per supply
(9.2 A total for four supplies in
PowerConnect RPS720)
Output Voltage and Current
Parameter 12 V output unit
Nominal Output Voltage +12 V
Absolute Maximum Tolerance +/- 5 %
Output Ripple Voltage 500 mV pk-pk
Minimum Current 0.0 A
Maximum Current 15 A

Best,
Jim

Simple answer here... its not a UPS. :face_with_tears_of_joy:

Hi folks,

Been struggling with this for a while now (1 day or so) and cannot seem to get this working. I have contacted Office 365 support, but no help yet. (This stopped working on Sunday). Would be great to have some ideas on what to check...

I have a local exchange server. This has a send connector to office 365 for two domains abc.co.uk, and abc.com. This routes emails to our Office 365 smart host address.

Within Office 365 I have a connector for accepting email from our IP and have those two domains entered as accepted domains.

When sending emails to the local exchange, all emails arrive successfully to my @abc.com inbox. When I try to send to an external email account, say, gmail, nothing comes through...

Any ideas?

Best,
Jim

@dafyre said in Office 365/Connector:

Any chance your IP changed?

Nope. I just checked to be sure, but were static anyway.

Client Access Server is out of date. Running some updates to then retry the Deployment Wizard.

@black3dynamite said in How to safely copy a Linux VM:

You actually need to get a new machine id for your clone VM.
https://www.thegeekdiary.com/centos-rhel-7-how-to-change-the-machine-id/

Perfect, thanks. I have followed this process. Glad it got caught as otherwise would not have done this. Thanks for the help.