Posts made by Mike Davis

@Dashrender

It's not just you. I'm two hours from Buffalo and that class is today... Next closest class is in NYC, which is 5 hours from me. Maybe I'll have to go the online route.

@aaronstuder said in Ubiquiti classes?:

They look costly for stuff you could likely learn on Youtube....

There was a time when I would have agreed 100%. Now it seems the only way I would cram in 16 hours of learning would be to head off site some where with my phone forwarded to voicemail...

Has anyone ever attended the Ubiquiti classes?
http://www.microcom.us/browse-by-brand--ubiquiti-networks.html
@Breffni-Potter mentioned training classes in a post and I found that link.

I've got a wildcard cert coming due from GoDaddy. Any reason I would not want to switch all the devices that use that cert over to their own individual cert from letsencrypt? Is there only a Linux client?

As far as best practice goes, Microsoft has gone back and forth on the issue between split DNS and internal domain name. The last time I looked, they recommended a subdomain for your internal network. So instead of domain.com inside and out, or domain.local inside and domain.com outside, they use ad.domain.com inside and domain.com outside.

I've dealt with them all and they all have their advantages and disadvantages. At the end of the day, I think you just need to understand them and pick the one that works best for that client.

I knocked it down to 20MHz channel width and ran it for 14 hours with no pings over 20 ms. Users have been on it for 2 work days now and everything is working fine. I wish I understood the science behind it so I could know definitively if I moved the second antenna higher on the building if I could get more bandwidth out if it, but at the speed it's running now, it really doesn't matter. They have more than enough bandwidth and it seems to be solid, so I'm going to leave well enough alone.

What if it was one of our computers and it decided to upgrade and we sat down to work and it was sitting there for 2 hours displaying "do not reboot your computer"?

I got a call on Sunday from a family member after their computer upgraded overnight without their approval. I don't think Microsoft is playing fair. In this case Internet Explorer favorites didn't import in to Edge, and it removed Internet Explorer from the tiles and taskbar. Simple fix for me, but not for the end user.

With my old images, I had Office built in and used the KMS key to license it. What's the current best practice for imaging machines when you switch to o365 click to run from the old volume license versions of Office?

I think they need to start issuing version numbers for the interface. Instructions for tasks have changed because the interface changed and now there is no way to google the current interface.

The thing I don't like about the third party options is we have been telling our users for years not to click or run stuff inside of emails... This forces them to do that to get their message. In that regard it makes the users less secure because now they are a little more click happy.

So I got to the bottom of this one. It turned out to be autodiscover related as @JaredBusch suggested. Even though the autodiscover.domain.name record is correct, it seems on his system outlook was checking a bunch of other things and requesting a password on each one of them. To fix the issue, I had to open regedit and go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover

Then add the following registry entries:

"ExcludeScpLookup"=dword:00000001
"ExcludeHttpsAutodiscoverDomain"=dword:00000001
"ExcludeHttpsRootDomain"=dword:00000001
"ExcludeSrvLookup"=dword:00000001
"ExcludeHttpRedirect"=dword:00000000
"ExcludeSrvRecord"=dword:00000001

@Dashrender said in Lotus Notes:

Once you find a way to export it, I'm sure @tonyshowoff would love to instruct you in the ways of building a simple website/DB combo that could host it and allow nice searches from a web form.

If @tonyshowoff wants to send me a proposal to host and support it, I'm all for that. I have no need to support something else.

@tonyshowoff said in Lotus Notes:

Is that literal richtext or something like HTML encoding of it?

I'm not sure. In their custom app, I can see text that is bolded and different font sizes. I'll have to try to export it and see what the fields look like.

@Dashrender yes, it could be exported there, but they would like a slightly better interface than excel for doing their searches. I may try an export to see how many records we're talking about.

The client is pretty much just storing rich text in the database. Thanks to those that asked those questions so I knew what to look for when I went in. There are no attachments.

Does anyone want to propose a solution as to what to move the data to? I'm assuming a hosted database server with a simple web front end. The database won't grow because it's just archive information.

I'm going to see if someone can show me the front end today. I have a feeling it's articles with photos attached.

It doesn't really matter what we export it to as long as it's accessible.

I have a new client that has a Lotus Notes server with a database of archive content. They want to export it out of Lotus Notes in to something else that is currently supported. Does anyone know of any consultants they would recommend for something like this? In my searches, http://www.merlinconnect.com/ keeps coming up, but I filled out their "contact us" form a week ago and haven't heard anything.

yes, they are 5GHz. I don't need the bandwidth at 80mHz, so maybe I'll try knocking it down and seeing how that goes. From what I read the lower frequencies are less suseptable to interference. Does anyone have any real world experience of that? Also what is the "constellation" tool supposed to look like when things are good vs bad? I ran it, but then didn't know what I was looking at.

That was pinging the AP on the other side of the bridge. I hooked my laptop up to the far side and pinged back to the router at HQ. No drops, but I think it's weird that there was any pings above 1ms since I'm the only one on it. I think when I dropped the channel width down to 20MHz they were all consistent at 1ms. Is there an explanation for that? I don't really understand the theory behind that one.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.2:
Packets: Sent = 459, Received = 459, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 74ms, Average = 2ms