Posts made by manxam

@dustinb3403, thanks for the reply. I have checked and the "Winning GPO" is the correct policy. I have subsequently removed ALL power settings from GPO in hopes that setting locally on the PC would fix this issue and give me time to diagnose.

While Windows 10 shows the correct settings in the "metro" settings screen as well under the advanced settings for a power plan, the screens still blank at 15 minutes and lock the device.

I have no idea what would be overriding this, why, and where to look aside from the various powercfg commands and associated registry keys -- which all read correctly.

Before I conscript Microsoft's wonderful tech support on this issue, I figured I'd ask here for assistance as there are at least 100 people here smarter than me

Deployed new Server 2016 instance with my typical GPOs for security and computer settings.
I typically have monitor blank configured for 15 minutes and lock after blank.
The customer has decided that 15 minutes is far too short and, despite my concerns, wants 120 minutes.
No worries, I'll just change the GPO for those that need this.
I change the Computer/Policies/Administrative Tools/System/Power Management/Sleep Settings to reflect this.
The computers -- All Windows 10 Pro -- show 2 hours in their settings but cannot be changed by the user as this is pushed via GPO. All good right?

We receive a phone call that the computers are still locking after 15 minutes.
GPO looks good, Windows looks good.. As a test, let's remove the forced power plan from GPO and let a user adjust it.

Reboot the computers and they default to 15 minutes for display sleep and allow changing to 2 hours.
15 minutes later, the displays are all sleeping again. Arrgg!

Ok, forgot that Windows 8+ have a "Interactive logon: Machine inactivity limit" that needs to be set and it's currently at 900 seconds.
Let's change that to 7200 seconds and see.
15 minutes later and the monitors are sleeping again.

I have checked the powercfg (and restored default settings), registry, etc and all show that machine inactivity is 7200 seconds, power plan shows 2 hours but STILL the monitors blank after 15 minutes.

Has anyone run into this before and can offer some assistance before I spent the next week back and forth with MS?

Thanks!

@jackcpickup : AFAIK, 2007 no longer works with O365 due to the removal of RPC over HTTP as of Oct 31 2017. They have since switched to MAPI over HTTP which is only supported by Outlook 2010 SP2 and later.

@storageninja : Agreed. I have 3 clients that required at least 2M in E&O before they'd sign us.. I had to increase ours as we typically carry $1M.

@aaronstuder : After several minute delays between their replies, they'll eventually give you a phone number to call instead...

@scottalanmiller, I think NTG should reach out to Microsoft and offer hosted VoIP

@bbigford said in Office 365 Public Folder Cannot Receive Mail:

Going basic here as it disappeared on me in the past... Guessing you tried snagging the Partner app from the list of all apps again?

Mine used to be in the top bar, MS removed that functionality until I hunted the list of all apps and added it to the side "blade".

Oh, I wish it were this easy but it's just missing entirely. I think our portal became unlinked from our partner account somehow but the Partner support says it's an O365 issue and O365 support has been terrible.

Microsoft has the WORST support of any company and, lately, their calls get dropped and they don't call me back about a few tickets we have in with them. When we reach back out to them we're told that they're having "phone issues".

They must be using Microsoft's phone solution

@scottalanmiller said in Office 365 Public Folder Cannot Receive Mail:

On with MS again. Their support is just googling the same stuff that I have, but more slowly. Running through all the same MS docs that I already used, and already reported as wrong to MS yesterday. Argh.

Funny, I'm going through this EXACT thing myself. We lost the "Partner" link within our O365 tenant so can't perform delegate admin actions and none of our customers show as having a partner associated despite having the correct POR.

I've been at it for 3 days with Microsoft and they keep sending me links that they appear to have gotten off of google bing that are either grossly outdated or have nothing to do with the problem at hand.

The language barrier isn't helping either as they don't seem to be clear on what we're asking and why.

Ugh...

@jaredbusch, totally understood. I wasn't claiming otherwise. I just wanted to vocalize it for others who jump into the thread.
Thanks for the verification.

@jaredbusch said in Find Source of Windows Mapped Drives:

@scottalanmiller Again, this does you likely no good, as the admin session likely has nothing mapped in the first place. but it does run as it should.

@JaredBusch and @scottalanmiller and this is where my original comment came in about admin account. Most RMM tools run under elevated privileges and, therefore, return no data as they're not running under the user context. One could, however, likely do a "Start-Process powershell.exe -Credential "domain\user"" before the wmic command but it gets awfully complicated at that point.

@scottalanmiller - Note, this has be run under the user context and not administrator powershell. I couldn't figure out why none of my mapped drives were showing but then realized that I opened powershell as Administrator.

Duh...

@jaredbusch : Thank you for the confirmation Jared.

While I don't disagree about KVM, this office already has several Hyper-V servers in place and we'd like to keep parity.

Thanks for your reply!

This information is very hard to find. While I believe I know the answer, I figured I'd verify to "be safe".
A customer has a Dell server that has a Server 2016 STD OEM license. With this configuration, I know that I can install the Hyper-V role and install two 2016 STD guests utilizing the same license.
My question is: is there any restriction to me wiping 2016 STD off of the host and installing Hyper-V Server 2016 and then utilizing those same OEM licenses for the guests?

As OEM is technically tied to the hardware, am I somehow invalidating this license by using Hyper-V server and 2x Windows guests with this key vs using full Windows STD as the host?

@jaredbusch & @scottalanmiller : the vhost thing is likely the correct way to do this as "letsencrypt --apache" fails unless there is a vhost configured for port 80.
The default httpd.conf included with Fedora does not have this configured.

So you both know, Fedora 28 installs NC 13.0.3 in exactly the same manner but fails during installation due to missing php-json. Once installed, it installs without issue.

Searched the interwebs and, it appears, that Nextcloud's idea of a "preview" is, in fact, a thumbnail. Only PDF files will actually display a true "preview" when using the built-in PDF viewer app.

I guess this won't work. I was hoping for more

https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation/issues/710

Seeing as how many of you use Nextcloud (thank you @scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch for your work on the deployment script), how does one get document previews to work?
Libreoffice is installed and my config.php contains:

  'preview_libreoffice_path' => '/usr/bin/libreoffice',
  'enabledPreviewProviders' => array(
        'OC\Preview\PNG',
        'OC\Preview\JPEG',
        'OC\Preview\GIF',
        'OC\Preview\BMP',
        'OC\Preview\XBitmap',
        'OC\Preview\MP3',
        'OC\Preview\TXT',
        'OC\Preview\MarkDown',
        'OC\Preview\MSOffice2003',
        'OC\Preview\MSOffice2007',
        'OC\Preview\MSOfficeDoc',
        'OC\Preview\OpenDocument',
        'OC\Preview\PDF',
  ),

Yet whenever I click on an doc/docx, xls/xlsx, or pdf I'm prompted to download instead of providing me a preview.

The logs don't appear to contain any errors.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Here in Canada we have Dildo, Conception Bay, Swastika, Sackville, Lower Sackville, and, until recently, 11 places or landmarks containing the 'n-word'.

I would like to know what a Twatt Farm is though

@lakshmana : Why are you attempting to remove the "location" feature from Android? I read this and all of your other posts and can't help but wonder what you're always doing. You seem to always take the "hard road" when it comes to implementing things with no rhyme-nor-reason for going about these and, I hate to say it, without the technical expertise to actually accomplish the goal.

Perhaps if you'd explain your REASONING for attempting to accomplish something, one of us may have better suggestions on how to go about your task. Unfortunately, you seem to ask after you're already neck deep in something with no hope of escape.

Sorry if this sounds harsh, but I'd really like to help you accomplish something the "correct" way instead of all of these hacks and workarounds that you always seem to be involved in...

As @scottalanmiller mentioned above, you'll have to configure pasv on ftp and ensure your client is configured to use it as well.

within vsftpd.conf :

pasv_enable=YES
port_enable=YES
pasv_min_port=10000
pasv_max_port=10250
pasv_address=IP.OF.BOUND.INTERFACE
pasv_addr_resolve=NO