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@garak0410 said in Share From Synology Stopped Working:

@dbeato Crazy huh but thankful for the suggestion.

If the Synology supports NTP you may want to enable it and point it to your Domain Controllers.

@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

Keep in mind that serverless itself doesn't imply cloud or hosted or third party. You can run serverless on your own server. It requires containers to run in, just like any other workload. If you feel that serverless is a critical part of your design, but don't want a dependency on third parties, you can always run your own.

I presume that this allows you to control latency issues common with serverless by enforcing what stays hot, although I've not tested that theory.

I assume you're talking about OpenFaaS. You can control cold starts but the complexity of setting that up along with maintaining it is light years above deploying to a provider.

As with anything, people not leveraging public cloud offerings (specifically serverless in this case and not just the big 3) is because of FUD. There are very few real cases where it can't be leveraged. As you said in another thread, don't avoid the best because it fails to be perfect.

Doesn't have the same cost benefits running on your own hardware either.

Nothing.

I have enough sales calls from the outside. Internally, almost no one other than IT has a need to contact me, they go to the helpdesk for any support. Helpdesk techs or sysadmins can contact me if they need assistance.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Deploying NextCloud 19.0.0 now.

Every release looks better and better. How easy is the collobora integration to get setup now?

Most people use OnlyOffice anymore cause of the better support for microsoft office formats. It installs itself now no need for separate configuration or docker containers. I think collobora is still about the same as before.

@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@IRJ said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

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@scottalanmiller said in Are Security Careers Real?:

@VoIP_n00b said in Are Security Careers Real?:

I friend of mine just made the transition to security. He said his pay doubled.

What did he transition from?

And WTF is security?

Right? Everyone says it, but what exactly is that job?

Its a cross between IT and compliance. There are different security roles, but they all fall in between those two sides. Some closer to IT, some in the middle, and some that are almost strictly compliance.

The biggest problem is that often they are just called "security" and can mean almost anything.

Likewise, the IT jobs are often just labeled "administration" or something and equally mean almost anything.

Here (a Fortune 100) the IT Security Department is a joke, It's all CYA stuff to limit liability to the company, nothing of real substance is done there, the normal IT department does more security than they do, a Chief Security Officer was hired a few years back, and I might add under the CFO, not the CIO. And they brought a few entry-level helpdesk guys from IT over with him to help the security team. No real experts. The CSO just copy/Pastes NIST documents. The guys on the team just pull emails out and stop a spread after a phishing attack or disables accounts that were compromised etc. Not real security work, it's just to limit legal liability is all.

@scottalanmiller said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

@Obsolesce said in Password manager for ordinary users?:

I was assuming "ordinary users using O365" was Windows PCs

We used to be an all Linux O365 shop. They exist.

Not sure how Email services implies desktop OS.. That's like saying everyone using gmail is using Chrome Books or AOL users still have AOL Dial up lol.

Possibly looking into do some side work on UpWork for random IT Networking Jobs.

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

nice desk/chair - what?
I personally know no one who has a nicer WFH that was working from an office before Covid, than what they have at work.

I know no one who didn't. Of course, I tend to know real workers more often than not, and not like doctors or other "professionals". Those often don't even have computers at home. But they can't work from home generally, either. But basically anyone with working value that isn't blue collar, you know their home setups are better than work because the office almost never cares and at home, they always do.

Most of ours do, of course most of our people will work from home here and there on some days (we allow a lot of flexibility as a family first company) such as work from home when kids or sick, out of school etc. plus, we have a lot of people that will do work after hours from home (like myself) because we just simply get more done without the distractions. We tend to issue out most people docks for home and work when issuing laptops.

Incase anyone is looking fo a good local NVR software that works with ONVIF IP Cameras and can do facial recognition I found one that is pretty good: https://felenasoft.com/xeoma/en/ It works on Linux or Windows and MacOS for both the server and client. It has has good facial recognition for the price I was looking at Luxriot Evo S but it was going to cost me around $3,000 to do the same thing. would be good for Small business use as well, I'm using it at home.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

#@%%%%$ VLANs! Someone made a different VLAN just for the WiFi on their main network and didn't add it to all the switches. VLANs still suck people.

This is why you use Ansible Playbooks

@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@EddieJennings said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@Sam-I-Am said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.

I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?

Yeah. I'm only about $435K away from max as an administrator

yeah, these crazy numbers Scott loves to show, super rare positions - rare doesn't meant there aren't still hundreds, or even thousands of them at that range, but compared to the millions of IT jobs, they are still super rare.

You can pretty much set your own Pay right now in IT, the problem is you won't find those jobs in SMBs and a lot of people will not jump away from SMBs even though SMBs don't usually value IT the jobs (along with the fact they tend to underpay in general) tend to be much easier and less complex. You get to Large Enterprises and there is a lot more work & more stress.

Just wanted to point out that archives isnt a DNS name but a NetBios name. If you can get to it by IP it points to some sort of issue with the resolution. NetBios was historical done with WINS. However in modern systems you typically are pushing out a search domain to your clients via DHCP and GPO so when you look up 'archives' it appends it to be 'archives.domain.com' to do a dns lookup rather than NetBIOS. We always use FQDN on drive mapps even with search domains setup. Try using the FQDN of the archives server and see if it works and this will show if there is an issue.

@VoIP_n00b said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@EddieJennings said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@Sam-I-Am said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

Typically we see engineers cap out around $225K. But admins head closer to $500K.

I am making much less then that as an engineer. You have opened my eyes. Do you have some links you could share of jobs in that salary range?

Yeah. I'm only about $435K away from max as an administrator

https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Systems_Administrator/Salary
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Systems_Engineer/Salary

You'll notice the Avg is dilotued big time by lots of entry level jobs rather than more experienced.

Is is a straight SMS? not an iMessage etc.. Most carriers log these and the accuser could request a log for them in offical form however, they usually have to be within the last 30 days. I'm not sure if they provide these to consumer accounts, We can get them through both Verizon and AT&T for bussiness provided phones (and it's in the Use policy of accepting employer paid phones that we can)

@Dashrender said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@thecreaitvone91 said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@Obsolesce said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

@scottalanmiller said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

But admins head closer to $500K.

Where?

You can easily get in the $200-250k range but to get above that you pretty much got to go into the research science, supercomputer/computer science kind of stuff IMO.

Scott was the CIO or a step or so below or to the side of that making that much or more on wallstreet. So sure, it's possible, but again, just super rare.

CIO isn't a Systems Admin or Engineer. CIO is just a policy maker. Ours Makes way more than $500k as does any of our executive leadership.

This is how I do it, I think it's only on Windows 10 and newer so if you have older OSes it will not work. We have one that sets it to 900 seconds (15min) for every computer, then this one that removes it filtered to an AD Security Group I have the desktop guys add computer accounts too that shouldn't get the lock. The screensaver method is the older way before windows 10.

@black3dynamite said in Will Tech Giants actually adopt WFH?:

In these days in a SMB, what's the difference between an System Admin and a IT Director? Because its hard for me to believe that a System Admin or whatever random title you were giving would making a $200K and up.

There's a big difference. an IT director Manages people, specifically, a Director manages managers and/or supervisors. The CIO is at the top of the chain(an executive), they do very little day to day managing of people, usually go to the board and shareholder meetings set policies etc. an Admin is working on the systems/network.

If an SMB is using those titles interchangeably they are using the titles wrong.

@travisdh1 said in Disable Screensaver and User Lockout with PowerShell:

I'm resurrecting this old ghost today.

I've got a couple of police computers that they want the screensaver password turned off for. Our remote registry editor doesn't have HKCU available of course, and Powershell is giving me the same sort of errors it was for @gjacobse. Did anyone ever get it figured out, or am I stuck waiting for them to call me back?

You can always browse to the HKEY_Users then the SID for the current user that is loggged in using remote registry, this is the same thing as HKCU.

Tip: if you don't want to look up the SID using powershell just right click on the SID and check the security settings, it should give you hints to who is who unless it's been customized.

OME is what we use, we have rules setup to encrypt if you put [encrypt] in the subject line.

@stacksofplates said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@bnrstnr said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@Obsolesce said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

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@scottalanmiller said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@Dashrender said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@coliver said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@flaxking said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@ScottyBoy said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

@flaxking said in Looking to Buy a SAN:

I've recognized an IPOD and witnessed it play out.

In the end the business decided it made more financial sense to put 200 VMs in Azure.

This is for a TV station cloud simply isn't an option to run this stuff unfortunately.

My point is that putting a bunch of VMs in Azure is a pretty expensive solution, but dealing with an IPOD ends up costing the business enough that the cost is acceptable.

The other solution is to not design an IPOD.

Exactly. Buy a correctly sized Scale box - no IPOD... sure, huge upfront cost, but who knows over the long term compared to Azure. etc etc etc.. We don't have any of the other needed information to know if going to Azure was the right move or not... but it's done, so we move on.

Literally everything is cheap compared to Azure. LOL. Even with all their specialty serverless whatever, never seen it cost close to what running your own would do. The cost is just so absurd per workload.

Their serverless offering is on par with the rest. It's a million requests per month and 400,000 seconds of compute for free. After that it's only $0.20 per million executions and $0.000016 per second. That's not really expensive at all.

Exactly. I'm using in a lot of places in production with ~10k users and twice as many devices that is using the serveless functions in many areas... basically for free. And, that's just the start (one example) of it... Having a VM with enough power to process that as frequently as it's getting done now along with all the other benefits around it, there's truly no comparison. Scaling it down to how a typical SMB would use it, well that's a no-brainer, as it'd be totally free and 100% beneficial. I don't think one's ignorance of a technology justifies it's disqualification of use in the real world.

This should probably be it's own topic, but here we are... I'm totally ignorant to Azure and serverless concepts in general. What types of real world services/processes are SMBs using (or could/should be using) serverless Azure for?

There's a few different scenarios. Anything reactionary essentially. Send a message/email based on an event, do some kind of work based on messages in a message queue, transform or modify data, etc. You can even use it to build and define APIs. I have an API running in Vercel (not Azure but another serverless offering) and I don't have to run the service in a VM full time.

Invoicing and Accounts Payable is a big use of it