I finally found the GPO setting that caused this issue-

Computer Configuration>Policies>Windows Settings>Security Settings>Local Policies>User Rights Assignment

Load and unload device drivers - Enabled with Everyone and NT Authority\Authenticated Users listed.

I had to change it to Not configured.

Circling back to this. I saw a thread from @JaredBusch regarding comparisons between legacy and SIP providers that I am going to have to study. Is everyone still recommending voip.ms and Twillio (also Flowroute, Vodex and Inteleeper).

We are also looking at moving our call center of about 12-15 reps to a hosted solution, as our new CS manager is not happy with the workgroup functionality in Mitel (ShoreTel) Connect and doesn't seem to liek the upgraded (more expensive) call center package features either.

Thanks for this post, @JaredBusch . I got the previous month's bill from TPX and am going to start going through it to see how much we can save by switching from our PRI.

We have to upgrade (replace) our Mitel/ShoreTel Shoregear T1, so that will cost a few grand.

@mikesmithsbrain said in Choosing a SIP Provider - What Should I Look For?:

@wrx7m Yes, those are good SIP providers but can you describe a little about your call/usage patterns? It will help with which providers I'd recommend.

Did you want the call center to be connected to your regular phone system? What workgroup functionality (ideally) is you CS manager looking for?

We will probably have two solutions. At least, for now; keeping Shoretel on-prem (but migrate to a SIP trunk) for everyone but the call center and have an unknown hosted solution for the call center.

The call center is inbound for tech support and customer service. We don't do any outbound campaigns or transfer many calls from the call center to other internal extensions.

I will be meeting with the CS manager to discuss what she is looking for. She has told me that she has been looking at Nice-InContact, Mitel’s MiCC Flex, and then zentalk.

As stated, I want to install Fedora 28 on an ESXi host (version 6.0). There are a ton of Linux OS versions, but none are Fedora.

Which should I pick?

@scottalanmiller Thanks for the quick reply!

@obsolesce said in Advantages of CentOS or Fedora over Debian?:

I don't use Debian for anything, ever, so I cant really compare. But there is a very recent thread on why most of us choose Fedora. Most of that here will just be a repeat. Hopefully someone can link it quick, I really can't right now.

Technically, you could run a web server on any damn OS and I'm sure it will work... But go take a look at that thread, tons of useful comments there!

https://mangolassi.it/topic/17393/centos-7-why-did-almost-everyone-switch-to-fedora

I posted the topic a few days ago.

I don't have any POS systems if you are referring to point of sale. Now, if you mean piece of sh!t, then yes, I have a few of those here.

Which version of 10 is this?

I know that they removed that home group feature in 1803 -

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4091368/windows-10-homegroup-removed

In past versions, I had to enable that in order to get the systems to talk to each other. Now, I don't know what the settings are supposed to be.

I am trying to complete an install Wazuh on Fedora 28 using their own documentation-
https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/installation-guide/installing-wazuh-server/wazuh_server_rpm.html#wazuh-server-rpm

After running the wazuh-manager install, it says to check the service status using

"# service wazuh-manager status"

When I do that, it shows all services are not running:

I also have the same problem with the wazuh-api:

"# service wazuh-api status"

Does anyone have any suggestions? I have gotten as far as trying to connect the API, but I am guessing that it isn't working due to the above issues.
https://documentation.wazuh.com/current/installation-guide/installing-elastic-stack/connect_wazuh_app.html

In my ever-growing list of why I am almost an MSP, I have yet another thing to add.

The company I work for is more like several individual brands/legal companies. We have wholesalers and now retailers. For some projects that are coming up, we need to have certain individuals with the ability to use different public IPs when connecting to the same vendor sites with different login credentials; thus, appearing as though they work at a different location. It doesn't need to be the same IP address for each of them; it just can't be the same static public IP we are using for this location.

The brief background is that certain vendors will think that we are a single company when the traffic comes from a single IP address and will have issues with that. Since it isn't a single company, we need to have different IPs for different accounts at the same vendor.

I have briefly toyed with different scenarios and the most expensive one is to have a few RDS servers with different public IP addresses on AWS (or other), where each server would represent each company that needs a different IP address. That seems cumbersome and might be expensive.

I also came across this service-
https://proxymesh.com/features/

It rotates through different IP addresses. The downside is that it would be managed at the user level for (most-likely) another 3rd-party browser plugin and would only be useful for one login to a vendor at a time, per browser.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi,

Our company currently uses an extremely basic and almost non-functioning spreadsheet form for employee expenses. After filling it out, the user prints it out, staples all receipts to it, signs it and hands it to their boss. I am guessing that the remote users have to send it via snail mail or FedEx or something, but I haven't confirmed that.

I currently have my mobile phone and home internet connection "expensed" every month, and have to print out the PDF statements and fill out this form. It is a hassle for me. I can't even imagine what it is like for guys who are traveling all the time.

Anyway, I have brought it up several times and now my newer boss (the CFO) has decided it is time to modernize this process.

The front-runner is currently Concur. I have read mixed reviews on a few product ratings sites (i.e. capterra). The main complaints are that the site is down or slow too often.

Any experiences with Concur or alternatives, good or bad?

I would love for Veeam to natively integrate with KVM at the hypervisor level. I know that Amazon is using them now and a lot of people on ML use KVM.

After seeing the site. I think it is looking to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

If I have to carry around a fake netbook, I may as well carry a real one. And I don't have to dock it to the side of the screen.

If I add "Domain Computers" group to the printer security settings with allow print, it will deploy the printer to the user.

I'm guessing I should create a group of computers then, too.

I updated the server with all outstanding updates and there was a small update for Wazuh server and client side. I deployed the new client version and I didn't see that error after reconnecting. I will try it out tomorrow. It could be a fluke or something that was resolved in the update.

I am adding peplink to my consideration

https://www.peplink.com/products/max-cellular-router/multi-cellular/

Yeah, thanks, but no thanks for the TPLink. I want something that I don't have to touch after installing it. If it works well for that location, after we leave it, I will probably configure it for fail-over at our corporate offices.

@jt1001001 - Yeah, the only Meraki product I use is the free MDM. Thanks for your insight, though.