Posts made by Mike Davis

Also check spanning tree protocol and some of those other "features" that could be downing a port and then bringing it back up quick. I forgot what the name for that is.

@dbeato said in SharePoint Online as a File Server:

More information on Quickbooks and Linux below (Not that I would encourage it)
https://community.intuit.com/articles/1552445-install-linux-database-server-manager

I'm right there with you. QuickBooks has problems enough of its own without involving two operating systems.

@dbeato said in incident response plan:

https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/incident/incident-handling-process-small-medium-businesses-1791

I missed this one. That fits the bill.

Thanks. SANS was the first place I went, but when I looked at that I was like this is crazy for a business that doesn't have any internet facing servers. Only because of other requirements are they even adding a server, but everything is inside their firewall. Their plan on the security side is to call me. Same for the DR side... Maybe for the audit I should just have them attach my business card as "the plan."

1 out of 4 packets is odd. Did someone try to get fancy and only enable jumbo frames on some interfaces and not all? That would cause that kind of odd behavior.

@travisdh1 said in SharePoint Online as a File Server:

I thought they had a version that runs under some Linux distro last time I had to deal with that junk. Just the server portion of course.

There is. When I think NAS box, I think commercial NAS box. I guess you could build a linux server and call it a NAS, but that's not what I was thinking of. If the commercial ones give you root access, I suppose you could install the Linux QuickBooks manager.

Looks like both from their description:

INCIDENT RESPONSE AND MANAGEMENT
Protect the organization’s information, as well as its reputation, by developing and implementing an incident response infrastructure (e.g.,plans, defined roles, training, communications, management oversight) for quickly discovering an attack and then effectively containing the damage, eradicating the attacker’s presence, and restoring the integrity of the network and systems.

Can anyone recommend a short incident response plan template? I have a client that is required to have one, and I'm looking for a template is appropriate for a real small firm.

@gjacobse said in SharePoint Online as a File Server:

Ugh - Sharepoint of QB? Forget it (IMO)
Go with a local NAS with remote backup to something like Backblaze or such...

If you want to use QuickBooks in multiuser mode, you need a Windows box to host the company file so that you can run the QuickBooks database manager for each version of QuickBooks company files you're hosting. For that reason, a NAS won't do.

For those that are running 802.1x device authentication for wired windows devices, do you have a port that bypasses authentication so that you can join your workstations to the domain and get the group policy to push the cert down?

Then just have a jack on your bench where you build new machines that lets you join it to the domain and get the cert before you put the machine out on the floor?

For devices like copiers, is there anything you can do besides MAC filtering that puts them in a copier VLAN?

@scottalanmiller said in Need a host recommendation:

In theory, as an IPOD, it might need zero.

in the very first post he said:
10k disk for VM OS
15k or SSD for SQL drives (RAID1 is an option, but RAID10 would be preferred). I'm sure RAID5 under SSD would possibly be acceptable.

So that made me think local storage.

@jaredbusch I don't know about the others, but I was making light of the fact that he stated how much RAM it needed to have, but not how much storage it needed. In a 1U chassis that can be an issue if you are trying to keep costs down with spinners instead of SSDs...

Does the R630 chassis have enough bays for your storage? I don't see a total capacity for the SQL drives. You can pack 24 of the 1.8" drives in the thing, and I guess if money is no object 23TB of SSD should handle most loads.

well done!

@scottalanmiller said in Standard recruiting practice?:

That was based on Mike's assumption that it was no longer available as an excuse for giving him the interview anyway.

I don't see where I made that assumption. I think I did the opposite of making assumptions. I tried to come up with different scenarios in which the events could have played out where it wasn't a bait and switch.

I must have missed something in the details. Looking at what the OP wrote nothing tells me it was a blatant scam.

@scottalanmiller said in Standard recruiting practice?:

There is no way that the position was filled during the interview.

It's not possible that they had multiple interviews scheduled that day and wanted to wait until they figured out which one they really wanted for the job would accept the offer?

Suppose they offered someone a job, and that person accepted, and then the next day, declined it. If on day one they told the number two candidate the position was filled. Then the next day called back the #2 and offered him the position, does that make them liars? are they running a scam? bait and switch? no, things happen. We don't know all the details to make assumptions like that.

@scottalanmiller said in Standard recruiting practice?:

Absolutely not. You caught them running a scam. You know so much about what they are like as a company now. Unless you are convinced that with another interview you'll actually get the L2, I'd just stop wasting the time on them now.

Scott - You seem to be really jaded against technical recruiters. I know 3 of them at two different companies. I don't think you see their side of things.

If you advertise a position and get 3 good candidates, do you take 1 and tell the others they didn't make the cut, or do you take 1 and look around at other openings you have and try to place one of them there. If you had a L2 and L1 opening, if you filled the L1 opening with only L1 applications, you would risk someone that might not be able to do the job. If you offer it to a L2, you know they can do it. If they refuse, then you go to the L1 applicants.

It's kind of like a rental car place. They rent out their smallest cars first. Then if someone shows up with a reservation for a compact and you don't have any left, you know you can "upgrade them for free" in to a mid sized car. Juggling the resources you have isn't always "bait and switch".

@brandon220 I've seen it done both ways. I charge the full rate. If I'm sitting in a car I usually can't be working on anything else. On the other had I rarely charge drive time since I focus my business on a particular geographic area.

@nikunjd05 In person interviews are expensive for them. They are probably serious if they are asking for that. Their reputation for placing clients depends on screening applicants. They may have had a better fit for the level 2 and want you for the level 1. At any rate if you are in the job market, I would go in and meet them. If they like you and you don't get this position, you will come to mind when they have other openings.