@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finished Wazuh installation. Now, adding all the agents to the new server API.

7 servers to go

@scottalanmiller said in Replacing the Dead IPOD, SAN Bit the Dust:

@wrx7m said in Replacing the Dead IPOD, SAN Bit the Dust:

I have 2 Dell R720XD each with 10x1TB NLSAS in OBR10 and 1 older Dell R710 with 4 10K SAS drives in OBR10 running ESXi 6 (all installed on redundant SD card or USB flash).

Doing anything like Starwind between them?

I am not at this time. I was doing the now-defunct, overly-complicated, under-supported, vSphere Storage Appliance v5. It was great until it had issues with some of the services that were required to run and keep track of the heartbeat. Early this year, I basically tore the whole thing out and rebuilt my VI in stages. Much simpler and elegant and since I have added 10Ge, live vmotion only takes a couple minutes for each VM (minus my big ass file server).

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finished Wazuh installation. Now, adding all the agents to the new server API.

7 servers to go

no automation for that ?

Nope. lol Finally done.

@NerdyDad said in Replacing the Dead IPOD, SAN Bit the Dust:

@wrx7m We have a couple of Synology's around our enterprise and am currently using Veeam to backup VMs from their respective local hosts. But I would also have the same concern about the synology that I am also having with this current SAN. It will eventually be the bottom part of the pyramid.

If it is only one of your backup targets, it really isn't.

Leaving work for the evening.

@NerdyDad said in Replacing the Dead IPOD, SAN Bit the Dust:

@wrx7m We have a couple of Synology's around our enterprise and am currently using Veeam to backup VMs from their respective local hosts. But I would also have the same concern about the synology that I am also having with this current SAN. It will eventually be the bottom part of the pyramid.

I should point out that I also am using Veeam and have been since I put my VI into production. Can't wait for 9.5!

@IRJ If it is of the same quality as the one I have been using for 11+ years, you won't be disappointed.

So it looks like they want to have someone in-house shooting and editing some product videos (using Adobe Premiere) to post on our websites. I was thinking of a Dell Precision T5810 workstation with a low-medium end video card, 32GB of RAM and an SSD for the boot drive and some spinning rust for some local storage (things that don't need to be backed up).

My questions are:

Does editing 2D HD video require much horsepower by way of the video card?
I would imagine the CPU would be doing the heavy lifting here, is that correct?
Anything else I should consider?

Thanks!

@jmoore said in Laptop bag recommendations:

Du hast eine Rammstein Tasche!

The Optiplex 7040 only has a 285 watt PSU so I don't know if I am going to be able to go that route. I think I might be going back to workstation territory.

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

LMAO. It is great just seeing that guy being towed on skis. Then it gets better once you start to realize how he is dressed. Then it hits epic status when you see the horse and buggy.

Depending on your switch, Spiceworks inventory can tell you what device is connected to which switch port. Also, you can check the dynamic address tables for MAC addresses and match to some sort of inventory of your devices.

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@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Persuading the boss to lemme drive his new car. @CCWTech

Make and model, please

2019 Dodge challenger scat pack

Don't take no for an answer lol

@Dashrender - The feature set really doesn't matter in this case unless I need to specify the speed/duplex mode but I was mostly just saying that there was a difference, not that it mattered much to me. I am concerned with the reliability factor and at the prices for those switches, it is still not nearly as much as I was planning on spending with the direct integration with my Sophos.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Locked myself out of my office!!

FML

House keys, car keys...

That sucks. I locked myself out on a weekend, but had my car keys. I went out to my car to get something and the door blew shut in the wind.

I am posting this in a couple different forums (including Apple)because I am not getting anywhere yet. I am seeing a strange issue with my users and how iOS is handling events in the ActiveSync Calendar. I have narrowed it down to one specific issue -

Scheduling an event in Outlook that spans multiple days and has specific start and end times (as opposed to using the all day event check box) will round up to the next full day for the start and add the rest of the day to midnight (of the following day).

Example:

Tuesday at 10:30 AM to Friday at 3:30 PM will show up fine in Outlook and Android devices but on the iPhone, it shows Wednesday 12 AM to Saturday 12 AM.

If a meeting request is sent out, the message that arrives on the iPhone has the flawed time frame and when people accept the invitation, it shows that they accepted it for the iPhone's flawed time frame.

Has anyone else seen this issue? Can someone using an iPhone and ActiveSync test it out to see if they have the same issue? Thanks in advance.

Environment -

Local Exchange 2010

Outlook 2013 and 2016

2 different versions of iOS 10, including the latest version.

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally finished my Office 365 Installer script.
https://gitlab.com/black3dynamite/office365_installer

Damn. That is quite a script to install office. I only use a bat file with the click to run and xml file.

@stacksofplates Thanks for the link. I would just like to know when security updates are released without having to actively look.

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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

All the trees and flowers are blooming, spring is fully here! Even though the pollen sucks, spring makes me happy.

you know what that means? Summer is right around the corner!!

Ugh. Where'd winter go, we barely had one this year. Yes, I'm one of those contrarians that prefers cold weather.

Same here.

dude my winter lasted waaaaay too long. it was from december till march

lol. I don't really get a winter. Although, we have had quite a few rainy days this year, which I love.

I work for a smallish US-based consumer electronics company and we have a very small branch office in mainland China. They are having a tough time accessing/sharing files from our US offices via VPN connections from each client directly to our office and since pretty much every service that exists for large file sharing outside of China is blocked by the great firewall, I am not exactly sure how to approach it.

We don't have any real systems infrastructure in China. It's basically a couple of people working on laptops with an Internet connection that deal with and visit the factories/vendors for research and development and production.

The goal is to be able to access and share large files between our US office/users and the users at the Chinese location. But also allow both of us to share with various vendors also located in mainland China.

I was thinking of nextcloud but I don't have any real experience with it and also am not sure if hosting it on-prem would solve any problems.

Does anyone have experience in dealing with China in this regard?

TIA