https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-desktop-client-3-2-with-status-feature-and-virtual-files-available-now/

I am pretty excited about this new feature. Allows you to sync files on demand similar to OneDrive and Dropbox. The files only take up space on your device if you open them or choose to keep them on your device always.

I know there was a recent post about Zentyal and I made the comment that it appears to be a dead project. I just saw this on another forum post. Possibly making a comeback???

http://www.zentyal.org/2016/10/zentyal-5-0-roadmap-published/

So I kind of wanted to expand on the post Offline files nightmare but the discussion started to veer off to other discussions.

I know that some have adopted Nextcloud, Owncloud, OneDrive for Business, Google Drive, etc. as replacements for smb file servers. What I am curious about is how everyone configures these solutions in their environment.

Do you still use folder redirection but point it to the Nextcloud folder? Or do you tell users it's on them not to save data to their desktop and documents?

Do you map network drives using WebDAV for internal users?

Do you create shares from an admin or main share account and then have all users sync the data to their local machine?

I don't know much about Bacula but when I was researching a couple months ago I came across Bareos which is a fork of Bacula. Not sure if that is the new direction for the software.

www.bareos.org

So I believe I was able to resolve the issue. I ended up rolling back my Office updates using the method from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2770432/how-to-revert-to-an-earlier-version-of-office-2013-or-office-2016-clic . I had tried numerous versions but none seemed to work. I ended up trying Build 1707 16.0.8326.2073 and holy crap it worked.

Just another observation before I had rolled back is that Excel was using a high amount of CPU (about 45% to 50%). I have seen other people complain about CPU being high in some older versions but it was typically related to the Creators Update and not Office updates.

Anyways, thanks for all the suggestions!! I will let you guys know if this one blows up on me too.

Veeam Agent for Windows Free works great. I also like the Synology Active Backup if you happen to have a Synology NAS that’s capable.

The GitHub site has some good instructions for IIS and SAN Certs.

https://github.com/Lone-Coder/letsencrypt-win-simple/wiki/Create-a-SAN-certificate-for-Exchange-2016

I told him to contact Amazon to report the vendor and get a refund.

Thanks for the replies!

Sounds like you can sync shared folders to the desktop now.

https://blogs.office.com/2017/01/24/onedrive-brings-new-file-collaboration-and-management-features-to-the-enterprise/

Today, we are enhancing OneDrive with the ability to sync SharePoint Online team sites—including files used inside Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups and OneDrive folders—shared by others across PC and Mac platforms. Now you can work with all your Office 365 files just as you would files stored on your PC or Mac—even when you are offline

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/malwarebytes-news/2016/10/malwarebytes-acquires-adwcleaner/

I wonder if this means adwcleaner cannot be used for business use unless you purchase Malwarebytes endpoint.

I'm a fan of the one liner assuming you are transferring all roles to the same DC.

Move-ADDirectoryServerOperationMasterRole -Identity "DC-Server" -OperationMasterRole 0,1,2,3,4


0: PDCEmulator
1: RIDMaster
2: InfrastructureMaster
3: SchemaMaster
4: DomainNamingMaster

@JaredBusch - I know their site says Windows, but maybe something related with the firewall rules getting messed up.

https://discuss.zerotier.com/t/attention-zerotier-on-windows-users-please-update-your-client-s-to-1-10-6-or-later/12706

@scottalanmiller said in SAMIT: Why You Can't Share QuickBooks on Google Drive for Mutiuser:

@syko24 said in SAMIT: Why You Can't Share QuickBooks on Google Drive for Mutiuser:

There is a product out there called QBox that allows you to lock and sync the file with multiple locations. The downside is that remote users can only access the file when the local users have closed out of QuickBooks. Kind of a neat product but again not ideal when you need multiuser access all the time. The best solution in my opinion is an RDS server with the QuickBooks data file stored on the RDS for best performance.

As the QuickBooks desktop products seem to be coming closer and closer to an end, I agree that the online version is likely the best way to go. Part of the problem is that users have been using the desktop version for so long that the online version becomes very foreign to them and most want to return back to the desktop version.

https://www.coraltreetech.com/how-qbox-works

Yeah, that's not multiuser but rather "rapidly changing and coordinated single user". Could be a useful solution for some, though. You can do this with most products. NextCloud for example.

From the use case I've seen that is correct on being a single user product. I did watch the video on the link I posted and it does look like you can still do multiuser as long as the users are all on the same network. The remote user can only access once all the local users are out of the file and it has done it's sync. The file locking is automatic as well which is nice. It basically prevents the outside user from accidently overwriting your changes.

There is a product out there called QBox that allows you to lock and sync the file with multiple locations. The downside is that remote users can only access the file when the local users have closed out of QuickBooks. Kind of a neat product but again not ideal when you need multiuser access all the time. The best solution in my opinion is an RDS server with the QuickBooks data file stored on the RDS for best performance.

As the QuickBooks desktop products seem to be coming closer and closer to an end, I agree that the online version is likely the best way to go. Part of the problem is that users have been using the desktop version for so long that the online version becomes very foreign to them and most want to return back to the desktop version.

https://www.coraltreetech.com/how-qbox-works

@AdamF said in Mesh Central:

@syko24 said in Mesh Central:

@AdamF said in Mesh Central:

@notverypunny said in Mesh Central:

@AdamF Just looking at the syntax, have you tried using 1 and 0 instead of true / false?

Good idea, but this is the direct from the manual. So I would assume that "true" is the correct value.

@Ylian posted a response to a similar issue on Reddit. Make sure the passwordrequirements section is inside the default domain section.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MeshCentral/comments/sct26v/having_trouble_with_force2factor_configjson_option/

Hmm. It is inside the domain section, and the whole config file is valid JSON. At least it is valid JSON as far as an online validator is concerned. It's either still something wrong with my config, or is there another option that I am missing to enable this?

Not sure what follows your passwordRequirements section, but maybe you need a comma after your last }

@AdamF said in Mesh Central:

@notverypunny said in Mesh Central:

@AdamF Just looking at the syntax, have you tried using 1 and 0 instead of true / false?

Good idea, but this is the direct from the manual. So I would assume that "true" is the correct value.

@Ylian posted a response to a similar issue on Reddit. Make sure the passwordrequirements section is inside the default domain section.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MeshCentral/comments/sct26v/having_trouble_with_force2factor_configjson_option/

@scottalanmiller said in Mesh Central:

@syko24 said in Mesh Central:

They also added CrowdSec recently. @Ylian the developer also releases YouTube videos covering a lot of these topics and how to implement.

Youtube Video

Says unavailable. I think because it is a channel and not a video but ML thinks it is a video link.

Yeah that was supposed to be to the channel. Here is the CrowdSec video. Lots great videos on his channel for setting things up.

Youtube Video

They also added CrowdSec recently. @Ylian the developer also releases YouTube videos covering a lot of these topics and how to implement.

Youtube Video

@WrCombs - Maybe give this a try if you haven't already. Allows you to sync your google email/contact/calendar with outlook.

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gssmo/

@scottalanmiller said in Insurance form and MFA:

They mean signing into Active Directory, not the server (the server too, I'm sure.) Do your users have MFA when signing into their desktops?

No they don't have MFA for signing into the desktops.

They also mentioned MFA for routers. Not sure the edgerouter can do this.